Virtue ethics is often proposed as a third way in health-care ethics, that while consequentialism and deontology focus on action guidelines, virtue focuses on character; all three aim to help agents discern morally right action although virtue seems to have least to contribute to political issues, such as austerity. I claim: (1) This is a bad way to characterize virtue ethics. The 20th century ...

There is a new method for teaching moral reasoning, and it does not require a traditional classroom. The Ethics Bowl began in 1993 when Professor Robert Ladenson organized a competition in which several teams debated resolutions to moral dilemmas. This first event, held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was a success due to the fact that students not only achieved a deep and nuanced unde...

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle highlighted the connection between ethics and politics. This intersection between ethics and public policy remains important more than two thousand years later. For instance, in the stem cell and cloning debate, the boundaries between science, religion, ethics and politics are often blurred. The recent adoption of the United NationsDeclaration on Human Cloni...

This study was undertaken to describe the performance of health research ethics review procedures of six research centres in Tanzania. Data collection was done through a self-administered questionnaire and personal interviews. The results showed that there were on average 11 members (range = 8-14) in each Research Ethic Committee. However, female representation in the committees was low (15.2%)...

although allameh majlisi has not intended to write a distinct ethical book on ethics or to present a coherent moral system in various volumes of behar al-anwar, but we can deduce a comprehensive ethical system through examination of the different discussions he has made about different  verses and traditions. this deduced ethical system not only emphasizes the role of reason in explaining the t...

Theoretical and methodological discussions of ethnography ethics have appeared regularly in the Journal Religious Ethics for at least past 13 years. Many these conversations been preoccupied by relationship between “normative” work religious “descriptive” on moral worlds patterns reasoning. However, there has often a perceived impasse when it comes to drawing ethical arguments from fine-grained...

This month’s issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics is a special issue devoted entirely to the ethics of infant male circumcision—an elective surgical practice that is currently performed on around a third of the world’s male population. The last time the Journal ran a symposium on this issue was in 2004, and there has been relatively scant discussion of the practice in the ethical literature s...