ISAIAH'S VISION OF HUMAN SECURITY: VIRTUE-ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Talking Virtue: professionalism and virtue ethics

The twentieth century phenomenon of professionalism had a major impact on the economy of nation states and has been recognised as a key element of post-industrial societies. As an anointed class, professionals reserved the right to prescribe their own roles and responsibilities. Critics of professional interests, however, have described professionals’ own definition of their roles and responsib...

The microbiologist and biological defense research. Ethics, politics, and international security. Introduction.

That's it, a book to wait for in this month. Even you have wanted for long time for releasing this book the microbiologist and biological defense research ethics politics and international security; you may not be able to get in some stress. Should you go around and seek fro the book until you really get it? Are you sure? Are you that free? This condition will force you to always end up to get ...

The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation

Critical Virtue Ethics

Since the publication of Anscombe’s famous paper “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. At least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. This article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

Environmental Virtue Ethics

Environmental ethics is concerned with the articulation and defence of what I shall call 'the green belief-the belief, namely, that a fairly radical change in the way we engage with nature is imperative. Environmental virtue ethics, then, is concerned with articulating and defending the green belief in virtue ethics terms, rather than in the terms of its two rivals, utilitarianism and deontolog...