Towards a Parasitic Ethics

Towards a Poetics of Childhood Ethics in Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema

Abbas Kiarostami set out his cinematic experience with works for children and about them. Despite the significant place this early phase of his oeuvre possesses in Iranian cinema, little has been done to analyze the ethical relations in these works. The major claim of this research project is that there are two major ethical conditions at the heart of ...

Towards a Coherent Sustainability Ethics

Towards public health ethics

Health is a value, both objective and subjective, yet it is not the only value that contributes to the well-being of persons. In public health, there are different connotations of the term "public" relevant from an ethical perspective: population, government action, and collective action of the community. Ethics seeks to provide a basis for and justify moral decisions and actions. Ethics asks, ...

Towards teaching Computer Ethics

With the advent of the Information Age and global connectivity, the ethical use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become essential. As the drive towards the establishment of a so-called IT profession gains momentum, ethical conduct and codes of ethics have recently been formulated and introduced formally. Forerunners in this initiative are the ACM and the IEEE. Of particul...

A Step towards Medical Ethics Modeling

Modeling of ethical reasoning has been a matter of discussion and research among distinct scientific fields, however no definite model has demonstrated undeniable global superiority over the others. However, the context of application of moral reasoning can require one methodology over the other. In areas such as medicine where quality of life and the life itself of a patient may be at stake, t...