Teaching virtue ethics: A Confucian perspective to a fair price in medicine

A virtue ethics approach to moral dilemmas in medicine.

Most moral dilemmas in medicine are analysed using the four principles with some consideration of consequentialism but these frameworks have limitations. It is not always clear how to judge which consequences are best. When principles conflict it is not always easy to decide which should dominate. They also do not take account of the importance of the emotional element of human experience. Virt...

“Of What Use Are the Odes?― Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Early Confucian Ethics

Truth telling and severe fetal diagnosis: a virtue ethics perspective.

PURPOSE Increased use of prenatal technologies has increased the numbers of women and partners whose fetus is diagnosed with a severe impairment. Virtue ethics provides a useful perspective to consider truth telling in this context, specifically how couples and providers interpret the diagnosis and prognosis to create truth. Virtue ethics is person-centered rather than act-centered, with moral ...

What Is a "Fair" Price? Ethics as Sensemaking

categories such as “producers” or “traders” facilitated systematic comparisons and enabled agreements. Proceduralizing can thus filter relevant information from the messy contextual knowledge and create a proceduralized context that can orient deliberants towards shared understandings. Decentering: In addition to the pressures to be “fair to everyone,” we observed that the validity of arguments...

Game , Player , Ethics : A Virtue Ethics Approach to Computer

As the contemporary heirs of popular music or cinema, computer games are gradually taking over the markets of entertainment. Much like cinema and music, computer games are taking the spotlight in another front – that which blames them for encouraging unethical behaviors. Apparently, computer games turn their users into blood thirsty zombies with a computer game learnt ability of aiming with dea...