Promoting ethical, responsible, and caring behavior in young people is a perennial aim of education. Schools are invited to include moral teaching in every possible curriculum. Efforts have been made to find non-traditional ways of teaching such as games or role play or engaging students in moral dilemmas. However, classroom environments need to consider time constraints, curriculum standards, ...

Genetically modified organisms are a technology now used with increasing frequency in agriculture. Genetically modified seeds have the special characteristic of being living artefacts that can reproduce and spread; thus it is difficult to control where they end up. In addition, genetically modified seeds may also bring about uncertainties for environmental and human health. Where they will go a...

In his book, Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve interviews eleven prominent moral philosophers about central aspects of their views as well as about their intellectual development.1 In their order of appearance, these are: Frances Kamm, Peter Singer, Daniel Kahneman, Philippa Foot, Alasdair MacIntyre, Ken Binmore, Allan Gibbard, Thomas Scanlon, Bernard Williams, Harry Frankfurt, and David ...

Which traits are beautiful? And is their beauty perceptual? It argued that moral virtues partly beautiful to the extent they tend give rise a certain emotion—ecstasy—and compassion tends be more than fair-mindedness because it this emotion greater extent. then argued, on basis emotions best thought of as special, evaluative, kind perception, argument suggests evaluative perceptual experience.

There is a great deal of academic literature, much it coming from the social sciences and epistemology, which presents itself as addressing very general problem: problem excessive falsehood. Falsehood comes in two forms: false statements beliefs. Of course, falsehood, both these forms, has always been with us, but often supposed to be on rise. I will argue that there no new or growing falsehood...

Abstract The idea that moral virtues form some sort of “unity” has received considerable attention from virtue theorists. In this paper, I argue the possibility unity among intellectual been wrongly overlooked. My approach two main components. First, work to distinguish variety different views are available under description a thesis. suggest these can be categorised depending on whether they v...

Nalavenba deals with Nalan-Damayanti's love life and the evil caused by gambling. Although it is a romantic epic, seen as work filled many virtues. Even though story of gambling bad king, there are The people Mavinda city well educated, they do not beg, deceitful. Nalan one who distributes saves country good rules, strength better mind. an expert in offering to people. Veeman's capital was guar...

Purpose This study investigates the relationship between leaders' ethical behaviors and internal whistleblowing among hotel employees through mediation role of organizational virtuousness. According to conceptual framework, leadership creates a virtuous workplace encourages whistleblowing. Design/methodology/approach A survey approach with responses 442 from Egyptian five-star hotels was used. ...

Gassendi, who was influenced in the development ofhis moral theory by Epicurus,2 was, as was Epicurus, a vegetarian. Gassendi argues, in his Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma,3 his reconstruction of Epicurus' theory, and in his Syntagma Philosophicum,4 presenting his own ethics, that abstaining from flesh is a moral requirement, i.e., a requirement for "doing well."5 Further, Gassendi represents, a...

followership is a developing paradigm in organizational behavior which focusesmainly on followers. the goal of this study is to explore follower’s implicitfollowership theories (ifts) which entail an analysis of follower’s views andperception about followership. for this purpose, based on a phenomenologicalapproach, semi-structured interviews with employees of large public and privateorganizati...