1. Three Types of Professional Ethics 2. Sociological Foundations 3. Goals of Professional Work and Their Problems 4. Normative and Evaluative Elements in Professional Work 4.1. Duty and Obligation 4.2. Professional Rights 4.3. Virtues in Professional Life 5. Engineering Ethics 5.1. The Service Ideal of Engineering 5.2. The Principle of Double Loyalties 6. Progress and Rationality in Engineerin...

“Ethics” was once considered irrelevant by corporate loyalists, but now discussion of it is increasingly seen as not only important but also as critical to a company’s success. The paper is a theoretical review. The purpose and objective of the paper is to explore and understand the meaning of business ethics in the context of Indian philosophical thought. The study focuses mainly on the contri...

Reason: New Essays on the Philosophy of Normativity, ed. Simon Robertson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bratman, M.E. Forthcoming b. Intention, Practical Rationality, and Self-Governance. Ethics. Broome, J. 2005. Have we reason to do as rationality requires? — a comment on Raz. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Symposium 1. Harman, G. 1999. ‘Practical Reasoning’. Reprinted in Reasonin...

Kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate God and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. But since Kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. This article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

during medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. however, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians’ practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

If explicit reasoning about morality promotes moral behavior, as Kohlberg and many ethicists have suggested, then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books...