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Compromise, Peace and Public Justification - Political Morality Beyond Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Fabian Wendt Compromise, Peace and Public Justification - Political Morality Beyond Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Fabian Wendt
R3,202 Discovery Miles 32 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that establish unjust laws or institutions. He explains how it is possible to have moral reasons to agree to moral compromises and he debates our moral duties and obligations in making such compromises. The book also contains discussions of the sources of the value of public justification, the relation between peace and justice, the nature of modus vivendi arrangements and the connections between compromise, liberal institutions and legitimacy. In exploring the morality of compromising, the book thus provides some outlines for a map of political morality beyond justice.

Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalizing World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda,... Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalizing World (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Maria Cecilia Coutinho de Arruda, Boleslaw Rok
R3,914 R3,632 Discovery Miles 36 320 Save R282 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book contemplates the ethics of responsibility in a large range of meanings, consequences and impacts. It reflects the perspectives and reasoning of 24 authors from all continents. All chapters are original papers presented at the Fifth World ISBEE Congress, that took place in Warsaw, Poland, at the Kozminski University, on 11-14 of July, 2012. In this book, ethics and responsibility are considered essential traits of character, not only in the business or governmental arenas but in any initiative, decision and activity. The contributions to this book focus on a spectrum of themes, terms and concepts, the global corporate social responsibilities perspective covering impacts, challenges, analysis, criticism, consequences of important topics of real life, sustainability, international economy and regimes, corruption, poverty and violence, among others. The book is intended for academics, researchers and professionals in all continents who are dedicated to Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Innovation, and Sustainability Management.

Common Grounds without Foundations - A Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Disagreements Across Cultural, Philosophical, and... Common Grounds without Foundations - A Pragmatic Approach to Ethical Disagreements Across Cultural, Philosophical, and Religious Traditions (Hardcover)
David Kratz Mathies
R2,582 Discovery Miles 25 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An alternative, fallibilist model of moral reasoning rooted in the American Pragmatic tradition. Additional resources drawn from Chinese philosophy, Jain epistemology, modern philosophy of mathematics, and the Gadamerian hermeneutical tradition serve both to corroborate the argumentation and to provide examples of continuities in reasoning that cross the boundaries of disparate traditions.

Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment - Gardens of the Anthropocene (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Marcello Di Paola Ethics and Politics of the Built Environment - Gardens of the Anthropocene (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Marcello Di Paola
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book proposes and defends the practice of urban gardening as an ecologically and socially beneficial, culturally innovative, morally appropriate, ethically uplifting, and politically incisive way for individuals and variously networked collectives to contribute to a successful management of some defining challenges of the Anthropocene - this new epoch in which no earthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity - including urban resilience and climate change.

Murder in our Midst - Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an Age of Globalized News (Hardcover): Romayne Smith Fullerton, Maggie... Murder in our Midst - Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an Age of Globalized News (Hardcover)
Romayne Smith Fullerton, Maggie Jones Patterson
R2,593 Discovery Miles 25 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As immigration, technological change, and globalization reshape the world, journalism plays a central role in shaping how the public adjusts to moral and material upheaval. This, in turn, raises the ethical stakes for journalism. In short, reporters have a choice in the way they tell these stories: They can spread panic and discontent or encourage adaptation and reconciliation. In Murder in Our Midst, Romayne Smith Fullerton and Maggie Jones Patterson compare journalists' crime coverage decisions in North America and select Western European countries as a key to examine culturally constructed concepts like privacy, public, public right to know, and justice. Drawing from sample news coverage, national and international codes of ethics and style guides, and close to 200 personal interviews with news professionals and academics, they highlight differences in crime news reporting practices and emphasize how crime stories both reflect and shape each nation's attitudes in unique ways. Murder in Our Midst is both an empirical look at varying journalistic styles and an ethical evaluation of whether particular story-telling approaches do or do not serve the practice of democracy.

Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective (Hardcover): Bowie Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective (Hardcover)
Bowie
R3,821 Discovery Miles 38 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides essential reading for anyone with an academic or professional interest in business ethics today.

An Iron Will (Hardcover): Orison Swett Marden An Iron Will (Hardcover)
Orison Swett Marden
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Captive to Christ, Open to the World (Hardcover): Brian Brock Captive to Christ, Open to the World (Hardcover)
Brian Brock; Edited by Kenneth Oakes
R974 R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Save R144 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sustaining Hope (Hardcover): David B. McEwan, Jim Good Sustaining Hope (Hardcover)
David B. McEwan, Jim Good
R998 R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Save R150 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
After Ethics - Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Alejandro Haber, Nick... After Ethics - Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Alejandro Haber, Nick Shepherd
R3,809 Discovery Miles 38 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While books on archaeological and anthropological ethics have proliferated in recent years, few attempt to move beyond a conventional discourse on ethics to consider how a discussion of the social and political implications of archaeological practice might be conceptualized differently. The conceptual ideas about ethics posited in this volume make it of interest to readers outside of the discipline; in fact, to anyone interested in contemporary debates around the possibilities and limitations of a discourse on ethics. The authors in this volume set out to do three things. The first is to track the historical development of a discussion around ethics, in tandem with the development and "disciplining" of archaeology. The second is to examine the meanings, consequences and efficacies of a discourse on ethics in contemporary worlds of practice in archaeology. The third is to push beyond the language of ethics to consider other ways of framing a set of concerns around rights, accountabilities and meanings in relation to practitioners, descendent and affected communities, sites, material cultures, the ancestors and so on.

Maral and the Wisdom of the Forest - A Quest for Truth (Hardcover): Riya Aarini Maral and the Wisdom of the Forest - A Quest for Truth (Hardcover)
Riya Aarini
R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs - Arguments from the Middle Ground (Hardcover, New): C. Navari Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs - Arguments from the Middle Ground (Hardcover, New)
C. Navari
R2,378 R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Save R417 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection rejects excessive idealism in considering contemporary ethical dilemmas and returns to more classical styles of ethical reasoning, including pragmatism, legal realism and the virtuous life. Valuing pluralism and the ethical dilemmas that ensue from the multiplicity of values in contemporary international society, this book does not seek to solve by raising one value over others, but rather by seeking reconciliations.Arguing for a middle ground between idealism and realism, this book offers a fruitful starting point for studying international ethics, of war most obviously, but also of justice, human rights, intervention, succession and development ethics where universal ideals encounter real world obstacles to the accomplishment of principles of the good. The collection considers real-life situations and how to resolve them in ways that do not demand a total overthrow of the contemporary international order but that point to ways to ameliorate it.Bringing together renowned international scholars in the field, this book will appeal to scholars of international relations and international ethics, as well as diplomats.

Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety - From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations... Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety - From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Joonhong Ahn, Franck Guarnieri, Kazuo Furuta
R1,659 Discovery Miles 16 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new paradigm of nuclear safety. The consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 have fuelled the debate on nuclear safety: while there were no casualties due to radiation, there was substantial damage to local communities. The lack of common understanding of the basics of environmental and radiological sciences has made it difficult for stakeholders to develop effective strategies to accelerate recovery, and this is compounded by a lack of effective decision-making due to the eroded public trust in the government and operators. Recognizing that making a society resilient and achieving higher levels of safety relies on public participation in and feedback on decision-making, the book focuses on risk perception and mitigation in its discussion of the development of resilient communities.

Why the Law Matters to You - Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity (Hardcover): Christoph Hanisch Why the Law Matters to You - Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity (Hardcover)
Christoph Hanisch
R4,599 Discovery Miles 45 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person's practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.

For the Common Good - The Ethics of Leadership in the 21st Century (Hardcover, New): John C. Knapp For the Common Good - The Ethics of Leadership in the 21st Century (Hardcover, New)
John C. Knapp
R2,219 Discovery Miles 22 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For the Common Good showcases the insights, reflections, and recommendations of some of today's most forward-thinking and inspiring leaders, as they explore the challenges of leadership in the context of our global, 21st-century society. Featuring original essays by such luminaries as Nobel Prize winner John Hume; Leader-to-Leader Chair Frances Hesselbein; Harvard University's Howard Gardner; M.K. Gandhi Institute's Founder Arun Gandhi; poet David Whyte; and President Jimmy Carter, For the Common Good stresses the need for a new kind of leadership committed to promoting social welfare, justice, and opportunity. Against the all-too-familiar backdrop of corporate malfeasance, scandal in our religious institutions, political chicanery to serve ulterior motives, and constant reminders of the corruptive influences of power, the contributors apply their expertise in such fields as ecology, education, and conflict resolution to illuminate emerging roles and responsibilities of today's leaders. Collectively, the authors argue that because individuals, institutions, and societies are now so profoundly connected and inter-related, every decision of consequence has a ripple effect. Leaders of all stripes, including corporate executives, politicians, social activists, scientists, and educators, must display courage, integrity, humility, and the wherewithal to consider the long-term impact of their decision and actions. Most important, they must engage in dialogue and recognize that creative solutions to complex problems require collaboration across sectors and cultures to achieve common goals. The result is a provocative and multidimensional exploration of leadership in troubled and troublingtimes--but with a hopeful note that individuals and organizations will rise to the challenges.

Environmental Dilemmas - Ethical Decision Making (Hardcover): Robert Mugerauer, Lynne Manzo Environmental Dilemmas - Ethical Decision Making (Hardcover)
Robert Mugerauer, Lynne Manzo
R3,891 R3,488 Discovery Miles 34 880 Save R403 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Because many people and ecosystems share-or constitute-any given place, they all have a stake in the outcome of what any of us do in regard to environmental problems. It is not surprising that issues are hotly contested given the many divergent interests, needs, and preferences of a community's members, much less those of people "downstream" who are affected by the consequences of our actions or of "outside" parties who play a part, including those who would speak on behalf of the ecosystems. Thus, we not only must make careful individual decisions concerning the environment, but need to improve the way we operate socially, especially given the roles and responsibilities we have as environmental professionals, private-sector developers, public policy-makers and staff, or engaged citizens. To aid in resolving our environmental dilemmas, Mugerauer and Manzo focus on the decision making process. Their goal is to help readers become more aware of the worldviews, beliefs, and values that enter into the decisions they make and to better resolve differences with others. To guide readers in thinking about their own positions and how to approach ethical decisions, Mugerauer and Manzo employ a number of exercises and cases to investigate the choices and issues that different stakeholders face (for example, concerning sustainability). Additionally, the book presents alternatives in terms of formalized ethical principles, the major ethical theories, and professional codes of ethics.

There's No Such Thing As Right And Wrong (Hardcover): Matthew D. Anderson There's No Such Thing As Right And Wrong (Hardcover)
Matthew D. Anderson
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Existential Eroticism - A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices (Hardcover): Shay... Existential Eroticism - A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices (Hardcover)
Shay Welch
R2,744 Discovery Miles 27 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices offer a unique lens aimed at the underbelly of the lady through which feminists can reorient discourses on rationality and moral responsibility related to women's oppression-perpetuating choices. Shay Welch utilizes feminist ethics, broadly construed as feminist philosophy concerned with the ethical commitment to eliminate oppression, to scrutinize how women regard and judge one another and to offer a more representative account of restriction, rationality, and responsibility to begin the healing process between diverse and divergent women. The book aims not only to construct an analysis of self-perpetuated oppression that will broaden feminist understandings of experiences that motivate many women to choose as they do, it serves as a means of understanding the marginalized.

Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good - Virtue, Happiness, and the Kingdom of God (Hardcover): Roe... Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good - Virtue, Happiness, and the Kingdom of God (Hardcover)
Roe Fremstedal
R3,238 Discovery Miles 32 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion.

Hospitality and World Politics (Hardcover): Gideon Baker Hospitality and World Politics (Hardcover)
Gideon Baker
R2,641 R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Save R677 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited collection from international leading scholars considers the long overlooked concept of hospitality in the field of international relations and political theory.
Hospitality provides a new framework for understanding many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states, to asylum and refugee crises, to the policy of settler societies towards indigenous peoples. Reflection on hospitality also helps to further our understanding of the place of the stranger, specifically the welcome of the stranger, in a field that has been too willing to either discount moral obligations to foreigners or to reduce the foreigner to that known entity: the future fellow citizen of the world.
Contributors include: Garrett Wallace Brown (University of Sheffield, UK), Dan Bulley (Queen's University Belfast, Ireland), Georg Cavallar (University of Vienna, Austria), Renee Jeffery (Australian National University, Australia), Jimmy Casas Klausen (University of Wisconsin, USA), Nicholas Onuf (Florida International University, USA), Haig Patapan (Griffith University, Australia) and Erin K. Wilson (University of Gronigen, The Netherlands).

The Reign of Anti-logos - Performance in Postmodernity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): David Hawkes The Reign of Anti-logos - Performance in Postmodernity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
David Hawkes
R3,129 Discovery Miles 31 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The concept of 'performativity' has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on people's personal lives. Although the autonomous power of representation has been studied in disciplines ranging from economics to poetics, however, it has not yet been evaluated in ethical terms. This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. It constructs a moral criticism of the performative sign in two ways: first, by identifying its rise to power as a single phenomenon manifested in various different areas; and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs. The book concludes by suggesting that earlier ethical critiques of efficacious representation might be revived in our own postmodern era.

Justice, Sustainability, and Security - Global Ethics for the 21st Century (Hardcover, New): E Heinze Justice, Sustainability, and Security - Global Ethics for the 21st Century (Hardcover, New)
E Heinze
R1,964 Discovery Miles 19 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this interdisciplinary volume, Heinze and a diverse group of senior scholars explore global ethics through sustainability, justice, and security. They address topics within these categories based on recent world events (BP oil spill, 'War on Terror', UN Climate Conference, for example) with an eye toward reconciling the interests of states and other global power-holders with those of individual human beings and global society as a whole.
Using a variety of techniques and approaches, including applied ethics, constructivist social science, normative political theory, and field research and narrative approaches, Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out their moral dimensions and offers prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition. The volume thus seeks to illustrate the interplay between the 'theory' and 'practice' of global ethics.

Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): William J. Devlin, Alisa Bokulich Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
William J. Devlin, Alisa Bokulich
R3,220 R1,969 Discovery Miles 19 690 Save R1,251 (39%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn's Structure 'revolutionized' the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn's Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the "Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War." Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn's book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.

Evolution and Ethics - A Critique of Sociobiology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Franklin Roy Bennett Evolution and Ethics - A Critique of Sociobiology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Franklin Roy Bennett
R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Does evolution inform the ancient debate regarding the roles that reason and instinct play in how we decide what to do? Evolution and Ethics offers an insightful analysis of four epistemological types of sociobiology which appear in the extant literature, and includes a preliminary analysis of Darwinism itself.

Ethics and Statecraft - The Moral Dimension of International Affairs, 3rd Edition (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): Cathal J.... Ethics and Statecraft - The Moral Dimension of International Affairs, 3rd Edition (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Cathal J. Nolan
R1,988 Discovery Miles 19 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of essays cuts to the quick of the most pressing moral issues facing decision-makers today, from the actions of ordinary soldiers in a combat zone to presidents deciding when and where to use force. Ethics lie at the heart of human and therefore also international affairs, compelling nations to get involved "over there" and dedicate resources to intervention or to justify detachment. The politics and rhetoric of ethics constrain decision-makers, greatly complicating international situations. This third edition of Ethics and Statecraft addresses the moral reasoning behind the art of peacemaking as well as the ethics and statecraft of conducting war. The coverage ranges from historical transformations of whole eras of diplomatic and international history to issues of ethics of bombing and the laws of war. Specific attention is paid to emerging issues such as armed humanitarian intervention and sanctions, drone wars, war crimes, and economic justice. The work is ideally suited for undergraduate and graduate students of international relations, history, political science, and ethics. It will also be useful for NGO officials and military officers struggling with these issues in the field. General readers will find illumination of highly relevant historical issues-including Allied bombing of civilians during World War II-that set precedents for both expansion and limitations on the laws of war. They will also encounter pressing modern-day quandaries, such as the conditions that permit or even require military or humanitarian intervention, and the impact of new technologies on old moral problems. Provides clear, non-partisan, and non-ideological scholarly coverage of historical as well as contemporary moral issues in international affairs Ranges subject matter from diplomacy, military decision-making, and international law to humanitarian intervention and the definition and protection of the basic human rights Presents the collective expertise and multinational perspectives of an international group of scholars Expands on work already well received by scholars, educators, and international practitioners in two earlier editions

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