Professional Ethic and Institutional Ethic: Convergency or Conflict

The Protestant Ethic versus the "New Ethic"

The Land Ethic

Uncovering the Planetary Ethic

There is increasing recognition of the need for a Planetary Ethic (for example, the urgent call by Paul Kurtz). Western civil society is based, it may be argued, more on consensus of behaviours than values. Appeals for behavioural outcomes (road safety, anti-violence campaigns) seldom explicate fundamental principles. Given this, even the partial success achieved in creating ‘decent’ society is...

Trade propagations in the ground of professional ethic

Professional ethic of the trade propagations can be studied systematically in a school of thought. Regardless of cultural and religious differences, one cannot generalize the common cases of obligations. A comparative consideration of the culture revealed by Islam and that of the West makes it clear that trade propagations in the western model is marked with such failures as instrumental attitu...

The Ethic of High Expectations