In this article, the important but neglected link between workplace safety-enhancing behavior and ethics is explored. Using data from 237 employees from five manufacturing plants in the Midwest, we investigated how specific local ethical climate types are linked to incidences of injuries and two types of safety-enhancing behaviors: safety compliance and safety participation. It was hypothesized...

In his article "Animal Rights," [lJ Jan Narveson presents an alternative "rroral" theory to what he calls the "Singer-Regan position." This theory--"rational egoism"-­ \\Quld exclude non-human animals from rroral consideration and deny them all rights. His excuse for developing this "nasty doctrine" is that he is "not convinced that they [Sing­ er and Regan] are right" and that "there is much t...

this essay attempts to express the point that in martin heidegger’s thought, the primordial relationship between man and the world is constituted through action. in the field of action, man, because of his being situated inside the tool-structure of the world, is provided with meaning, but is not too absorbed in theoretical contemplation. as soon as some kind of interruption is introduced in th...

Roughly, psychological egoism is the thesis that all of a person's intentional actions are ultimately self-interested in some sense; psychological altruism is the thesis that some people's intentional actions are ultimately otherregarding in some sense. C. Daniel Batson and other social psychologists have argued that there are experiments that provide support for a theory called the ―empathy-al...

The idea that concerns for and emotional reactions to climate change may be due to environment-related egoism and altruism was tested. Participants assessed as “high” on egoism were shown to be more concerned for myself-related issues and afraid of the climate change impact on their local environment, indicating a self-benefit goal motive. Participants assessed as “high” on altruism were those ...