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Consisting of an assortment of landmark essays and the best in
contemporary scholarship, this anthology delves deeply into the
most pressing environmental issues of our times. Articles included
in this anthology are distinguished for their relevance to
real-life policy making and for their ability to promote rich and
lively discussion about controversial matters. In addition, the
editors' careful organization of the topics and illuminating
section previews keep students focused on the most essential points
of current environmental debates.
The second edition of Media ethics in the South African context
explores the dynamic and potentially explosive field of media
ethics from a South African perspective. Grounded in ethical
theory, the public philosophies of communication and media
performance norms, this text provides guidelines for the
individual's ethical decision making; for both media practitioners
and media groups. Cutting edge analysis of the South African
normative context under the previous and present political
dispensations makes this book essential reading for media policy
formulators and students alike. Changes in the normative context
are presenting the South African news media in particular, with new
challenges.
THEÂ SUNDAY TIMESÂ BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically
optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book
on ‘ethical living’ I’ve ever read.' Oliver
Burkeman, Guardian ‘A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman,
author of Humankind ‘A book of great daring, clarity,
insight and imagination. To be simultaneously so realistic and so
optimistic, and always so damn readable… well that is a miracle
for which he should be greatly applauded.’ Stephen Fry In
What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively
argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing the
distant future is a moral priority of our time. It isn’t enough
to mitigate climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must
ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; cultivate
value pluralism; and prepare for a planet where the most
sophisticated beings are digital and not human. The challenges we
face are enormous. But so is the influence we have.Â
Data Ethics of Power takes a reflective and fresh look at the
ethical implications of transforming everyday life and the world
through the effortless, costless, and seamless accumulation of
extra layers of data. By shedding light on the constant tensions
that exist between ethical principles and the interests invested in
this socio-technical transformation, the book bridges the theory
and practice divide in the study of the power dynamics that
underpin these processes of the digitalization of the world. Gry
Hasselbalch expertly draws on nearly two decades of experience in
the field, and key literature, to advance a better understanding of
the challenges faced by big data and AI developers. She provides an
innovative ethical framework for studying and governing Big-Data
and Artificial Intelligence. Offering both a historical account and
a theoretical analysis of power dynamics and their ethical
implications, as well as incisive ideas to guide future research
and governance practices, the book makes a significant contribution
to the establishment of an emerging data and AI ethics discipline.
This timely book is a must-read for scholars studying AI, data, and
technology ethics. Policymakers in the regulatory, governance,
public administration, and management sectors will find the
practical proposals for a human-centric approach to big data and AI
to be a valuable resource for revising and developing future
policies.
The third edition of The Basics of Bioethics continues to provide a
balanced and systematic ethical framework to help students analyze
a wide range of controversial topics in medicine, and consider
ethical systems from various religious and secular traditions. The
Basics of Bioethics covers the "Principalist" approach and
identifies principles that are believed to make behavior morally
right or wrong. It showcases alternative ethical approaches to
health care decision making by presenting Hippocratic ethics as
only one among many alternative ethical approaches to health care
decision-making. The Basics of Bioethics offers case studies,
diagrams, and other learning aids for an accessible presentation.
Plus, it contains an all-encompassing ethics chart that shows the
major questions in ethics and all of the major answers to these
questions.
'Tense and intimate... an education.' Geoff Dyer 'Written with
sensitivity and humanity... a remarkable insight into prison life.'
Amanda Brown 'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving.' Terry
Waite 'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending... a wonder'
Lenny Henry __________ Can someone in prison be more free than
someone outside? Would we ever be good if we never felt shame? What
makes a person worthy of forgiveness? Andy West teaches philosophy
in prisons. Every day he has conversations with people inside about
their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and listens as
they explore new ways to think about their situation. When Andy
goes behind bars, he also confronts his inherited trauma: his
father, uncle and brother all spent time in prison. While Andy has
built a different life for himself, he still fears that their fate
will also be his. As he discusses pressing questions of truth,
identity and hope with his students, he searches for his own form
of freedom too. Moving, sympathetic, wise and frequently funny, The
Life Inside is an elegantly written and unforgettable book. Through
a blend of memoir, storytelling and gentle philosophical
questioning, it offers a new insight into our stretched justice
system, our failing prisons and the complex lives being lived
inside. __________ 'Strives with humour and compassion to
understand the phenomenon of prison' Sydney Review of Books 'A
fascinating and enlightening journey... A legitimate page-turner'
3AM
Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed
philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived,
curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility
instead. Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere
we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the
best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be
humble in the face of life's challenges. Costica Bradatan mounts
his case for failure through the stories of four historical figures
who led lives of impact and meaning-and assiduously courted
failure. Their struggles show that engaging with our limitations
can be not just therapeutic but transformative. In Praise of
Failure explores several arenas of failure, from the social and
political to the spiritual and biological. It begins by examining
the defiant choices of the French mystic Simone Weil, who, in
sympathy with exploited workers, took up factory jobs that her
frail body could not sustain. From there we turn to Mahatma Gandhi,
whose punishing quest for purity drove him to ever more extreme
acts of self-abnegation. Next we meet the self-styled loser E. M.
Cioran, who deliberately turned his back on social acceptability,
and Yukio Mishima, who reveled in a distinctly Japanese
preoccupation with the noble failure, before looking to Seneca to
tease out the ingredients of a good life. Gleefully breaching the
boundaries between argument and storytelling, scholarship and
spiritual quest, Bradatan concludes that while success can make us
shallow, our failures can lead us to humbler, more attentive, and
better lived lives. We can do without success, but we are much
poorer without the gifts of failure.
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest.
Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too.
In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think - and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society.
It is time for a new view of human nature.
Recent discussions of Thomas Aquinas's treatment of natural law
have focused upon the ""self-evident"" character of the first
principles, but few attempts have been made to determine in what
manner they are self-evident. On some accounts, a self-evident
precept must have, at most, a tenuous connection with speculative
reason, especially our knowledge of God, and it must be untainted
by the stain of ""deriving"" an ought from an is. Yet Aquinas
himself had a robust account of the good, rooted in human nature.
He saw no fundamental difference between is-statements and
ought-statements, both of which he considered to be descriptive.
Knowing the Natural Law traces the thought of Aquinas from an
understanding of human nature to a knowledge of the human good,
from there to an account of ought-statements, and finally to
choice, which issues in human actions. The much discussed article
on the precepts of the natural law (I-II, 94, 2) provides the
framework for a natural law rooted in human nature and in
speculative knowledge. Practical knowledge is itself threefold:
potentially practical knowledge, virtually practical knowledge, and
fully practical knowledge. This distinction within practical
knowledge, typically overlooked or underutilized, reveals the steps
by which the mind moves from speculative knowledge all the way to
fully practical knowledge. The most significant sections of Knowing
the Natural Law examine the nature of ought-statements, the
imperative force of moral precepts, the special character of per se
nota propositions as found within the natural law, and the final
movement from knowledge to action.
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "God's Politics"
reinvigorates America's hope for the future, offering a roadmap to
rediscover the nation's moral center and providing the inspiration
and a concrete plan to change today's politics.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and
bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical
living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A monumental
event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'A book of great
daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simultaneously so
realistic and so optimistic, and always so damn readable... well
that is a miracle for which he should be greatly applauded.'
Stephen Fry Humanity is in its infancy. Our future could last for
millions of years - or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers
of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable
suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do
today. As we approach a critical juncture in our history, we can
make profound moral decisions about how humanity's course plays
out. We can create positive change on behalf of future generations,
to prevent the use of catastrophic weapons and maintain peace
between the world's great powers. We can improve our moral values,
navigating the rise of AI and climate change more fairly for
generations to come. The challenges we face are enormous. But so is
the influence we have. If we choose wisely, our distant descendants
will look back on us fondly, knowing we did everything we could to
give them a world that is beautiful and just.
This very important work offers penetrating dialogues between the
great spiritual leader and the renowned physicist that shed light
on the fundamental nature of existence. Krishnamurti and David Bohm
probe such questions as 'why has humanity made thought so important
in every aspect of life? How does one cleanse the mind of the
'accumulation of time' and break the 'pattern of ego -centered
activity'?The Ending of Time concludes by referring to the wrong
turn humanity has taken, but does not see this as something from
which there is no escape. There is an insistence that mankind can
change fundamentally; but this requires going from one's narrow and
particular interests toward the general, and ultimately moving
still deeper into that purity of compassion, love and intelligence
that originates beyond thought, time, or even emptiness.
You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean?
"Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day
physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent
physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge. He begins with
remarkably clear explanations of relativity, entropy, entanglement,
the Big Bang, and more, setting the stage for his own revolutionary
theory of time, one that makes testable predictions. Muller's
monumental work will spark major debate about the most fundamental
assumptions of our universe, and may crack one of physics'
longest-standing enigmas.
This insightful book provides an analysis of the central ethical
issues that have arisen in combatting global terrorism and, in
particular, jihadist terrorist groups, notably Al Qaeda, Islamic
State and their affiliates. Chapters explore the theoretical
problems that arise in relation to terrorism, such as the
definition of terrorism and the concept of collective
responsibility, and consider specific ethical issues in
counter-terrorism. The book discusses a range of key topics
including targeted killing, enhanced interrogation of terrorists,
preventive detention, freedom of expression and terrorist content
on social media, bulk metadata collection and responding to
terrorist attacks that use weapons of mass destruction. It also
explores ethical issues that have often been neglected, such as
psychological warfare and stings. Taking a practical approach, the
book offers recommendations for resolving these ethical problems in
counter-terrorism. Integrating philosophical and legal analysis
with empirical evidence, this book will be critical reading for
scholars and students of human rights, international relations and
terrorism and security law. Its use of specific examples of
terrorist organisations, tactics and outcomes will also be valuable
for policy-makers in the field.
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest
young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today
'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a
crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO 'I believe Amia
Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL
'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The
best non-fiction book I have read this year' PANDORA SYKES
------------------------- How should we talk about sex? It is a
thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act
laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside
forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. To
grasp sex in all its complexity - its deep ambivalences, its
relationship to gender, class, race and power - we need to move
beyond 'yes and no', wanted and unwanted. We need to rethink sex as
a political phenomenon. Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily
original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the
politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a
different one. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR
THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022 LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY
BOOK PRIZE 2022
Utilizing the ethos of human rights, this insightful book captures
the development of the moral imagination of these rights through
history, culture, politics, and society. Moving beyond the focus on
legal protections, it draws attention to the foundation and
understanding of rights from theoretical, philosophical, political,
psychological, and spiritual perspectives. The book surveys the
changing ethos of human rights in the modern world and traces its
recent histories and process of change, delineating the ethical,
moral, and intellectual shifts in the field. Chapters incorporate
and contribute to the debates around the ethics of care,
considering some of the more challenging philosophical and
practical questions. It highlights how human rights thinkers have
sought to translate the ideals that are embodied in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights into action and practice.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be critical reading for
scholars and students of human rights, international relations, and
philosophy. Its focus on potential answers, approaches, and
practices to further the cause of human rights will also be useful
for activists, NGOs, and policy makers in these fields.
From ancient times, philosophers, theologians, and artists have
attempted to describe and categorize the defining virtues of
civilization. In "Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed," renowned
education authority Howard Gardner explores the meaning of the
title's three virtues in an age when vast technological advancement
and relativistic attitudes toward human nature have deeply shaken
our moral worldview. His incisive examination reveals that although
these concepts are changing faster than ever before, they are--and
will remain, with our stewardship--cornerstones of our society.
Designed to appeal to a wide readership, "Truth, Beauty, and
Goodness Reframed" is an approachable primer on the foundations of
ethics in the modern age.
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