results there was a negative significant relationship between moral sensitivity and moral distress frequency; there was a positive significant relationship between moral sensitivity and moral distress intensity. participating in medical ethics courses increased moral sensitivity and decreased the frequency of moral distress. conclusions participating in medical ethics courses increased moral se...

I reconstruct here the implicit rationale of Smith’s ethical system, which unites in a single and consistent theory the most valuable features of both ancient virtue ethics and modern deontology. I propose that Smith could do this because of his approach to what I call “sympathetic impartiality”, and the pretension of universality that arises from it. In Smith’s theory, sentiments are moralized...

Let me invite you to step back from the parochial political disputes that dominate public life in America and most other modern democracies, as well as from the internecine academic quarrels characteristic of so much professionalized scholarship in the modern academy, and reflect, instead, on the broader sweep of moral and political thought, in both the philosophical and practical realm, over t...

Unlike his theory of justice as fairness, John Rawls’s political liberalism has generally been spared from critiques regarding what is due to the disabled. This paper demonstrates that, due to the account of the basic ideas of society and persons provided by Rawls, political liberalism requires that the interests of numerous individuals with disabilities should be put aside when the most fundam...

Acknowledgements I'd like to acknowledge the support of the many people that have helped me throughout my career at Roosevelt University. In particular, this thesis could not be completed without the support of the following people:-Dr. Eric Berkowitz, for listening to all of my crazy ideas and helping me develop a few of the decent ones. Your continual habit of reducing problems to their philo...

En la presentación que vamos a hacer de Ética Sánchez Vásquez fijarnos en algunas ideas consideramos fundamentales dicha obra. La primera inquietud aborda y gran importancia nuestro contexto, sobre todo por el uso indiscriminado hacemos ello, es distinción entre moral ética.

Representations of Green Tibetans connected to Buddhism and indigenous wisdom have been deployed by a variety of actors and persist in popular consciousness. Through interviews, participatory mapping and observation, we explored how these ideas relate to people's notions about the natural environment in a rural community on the Eastern Tibetan plateau, in Sichuan Province, China. We found peopl...

Traditionally, nurses have been over-managed and led inadequately, yet today they face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Organisations constantly face changes that require an increasingly adaptive and flexible leadership. This type of adaptive leadership is referred to as 'transformational'; under it, environments of shared responsibilities that influence new ways of knowing are creat...

ii DEDICATION I dedicate this work to ……… To my parents For being great supporters in my journey To my dear wife, Ruba for her encouragement, moral support and understanding and To my beloved daughter, Larissa for her smile  when I was stressed up iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to my research supervisor, Associate Pro...