moral values

Cultural Values in Political Economy

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The backlash against globalization and the rise of cultural anxiety has led to considerable re-thinking among social scientists. This book provides multiple theoretical, historical, and methodological orientations to examine these issues. While addressing the rise of populism wo…

Can animals be moral?

by Rowlands, Mark

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Can animals act for moral reasons? Philosophical tradition answers, almost univocally, "no." Recent work in cognitive ethology, however, points in the other direction. Philosophical tradition has apparently convincing arguments on its side. But cognitive ethology can point to …

Edging towards bioutopia: a new politics of reordering life & the Democrati…

by Hindmarsh, R. A., (Richard A.)

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Interrogates one of the most important environmental conflicts in recent science and technology history: the controversy about a proposed genetically engineered futurenatural. It investigates the political technologies and regulatory manoeuvres in Australia which aim to contain …

Decentering biotechnology: assemblages built and assemblages masked

by Carolan, Michael S.

fromTheory, technology and society

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"Decentering Biotechnology" explores the nature of technology, objects and patent law. Investigating the patenting of organic life and the manner in which artifacts of biotechnology are given their objective appearance, Carolan details the enrollment mechanisms that give biotec…

Choice and consequence

by Schelling, Thomas C.

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Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering"--An errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as …

A theory of justice for animals: animal rights in a nonideal world

by Garner, Robert,, politicoloog

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Are animals worthy recipients of justice? If so, what do we owe them, and what is to be gained by using the language of justice when considering our duties toward them? A Theory of Justice for Animals, written by one of the foremost scholars of animal ethics, argues that not onl…

The fragility of goodness: luck and ethics in Greek tragedy and philosophy

by Nussbaum, Martha C., (Martha Craven)

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"This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their live…

Science, policy, and the value-free ideal

by Douglas, Heather E.

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"Since World War II, most philosophers of science have argued that science should remain "value-free." Heather E. Douglas argues that such a standard is neither adequate nor desirable. She lobbies for a new ideal in which values serve an essential function throughout scientific …

The bonobo and the atheist: in search of humanism among the primates

by Waal, Frans de, (Fransiscus Bernardus Maria)

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In this book primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution. For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distr…

The Dao of rhetoric

by Combs, Steven C.

fromSUNY series in communication studies

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In the first book to systematically deal with Daoism (Taoism) from a rhetorical perspective, author Steven C. Combs advances the idea that the works of Daoist (Taoist) sages Laozi (Loa Tzu), Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu), and Sunzi (Sun Tzu) can be fused into a coherent rhetorical genre…

Politics as usual: what lies behind the pro-poor rhetoric

by Pogge, Thomas W., filosofie,, (Thomas Winfried Menko)

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Product Description Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in digni…

Moral encounters in tourism

fromCurrent developments in the geographies of leisure and tour…

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Illustrating the role of power and power relations in tourism encounters within different political, economic, environmental and cultural contexts, the authors in this anthology analyse, theoretically and empirically, the implications of the privileging of some moralities at the…

Climate change and sustainable development: ethical perspectives on land use and food product…

by Potthast, Thomas, Meisch, Simon, European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, EurSafe 2012, Tübingen)

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Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings tog…