Living coelacanths:values, eco-ethics and human responsibility

Living coelacanths: values, eco-ethics and human responsibility

Coelacanths Latllnena chalumnae are the only liv~ng representatives of crossopterygian fish close to the roots of our own vertebrate history and therefore occupy a unique positlon among living fossils. L. chalun~nae has become a synonym for long evolutionary age, timeless existence, tenacity, immortality and links to old roots, appearing in language, poetry, fiction and many art forms. It is a ...

LGST001G5 - Ethics and Social Responsibility

Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility

The ethics we find in companies contains the same elements as the ethics in the socio-economic context in which they operate. The aspirations and ethical levels of companies operating in certain countries differ substantially from those of companies operating in other areas, where the defence of the environment, social welfare, human rights, cooperation, assistance are expected and offered to a...

Responsibility and Competence in Political Ethics

At present, our society is globalized, chaotic, changing, and also highly affected by individualization. That is, it is more difficult for out society to reach goals or conclusions collectively as one nation or one society. Under the situation, society needs political leaders to gather individual values, interests and opinions, and to take a lead in making collective decisions in the proper man...

Social Responsibility: A Crucial Knowledge and Ethics

Both the economic practice and education in the decades after the 2nd world war continued the previous trend toward over-specialization resulting from the huge amounts of knowledge piled up. But both the global impact and the local action require linking of specialists in interdisciplinary creative cooperation for their work processes to succeed. ‘Division of work’ was much more stressed than ‘...