A key focus in transforming the profession of ICT to one of contributing to a sustainable future is the education of students who may think and act as sustainable practitioners in computing. An important understanding in this is the relationship between ethics and sustainability in the student intake. This forms a baseline upon which higher education can build. It is argued that sustainability ...

We build on a philosophical account of personal identity (Parfit, 1984) which argues that the degree of concern one has for one’s future self may be scaled by the degree of “psychological connectedness”—overlap in properties such as beliefs, values, and ideals—held between one’s current and future self. We pose participants with tradeoffs between consuming a benefit in the near future versus co...

With the collapse of many organizations, many researchers are increasingly paying attention to such phenomenon. But ethical issues are not always clear cut; there are many grey areas that need to be threaded with care by organizations. To determine whether an action or decision is ethically carried out, ethical theories, developed mainly by Western scholars, are the current theoretical framewor...

یکی از پرسش های مهمی که فرا روی آدمی, به عنوان موجودی مدرک و مختار, قرار می گیرد, مربوط به هدف کارها و رفتارهایش می باشد. انگیزه و هدف نهایی کارها و رفتارهای ما چیست؟ آیا هدف غایی افعال آدمی تأمین نفع شخصی, رفاه یا خوشبختی خود فرد است یا آن که کارها و رفتارهایی وجود دارد که انگیزه غایی فرد از انجام آن ها نه تأمین نفع شخصی و یا رفاه و خوشبختی خود, بلکه تأمین خیر, رفاه یا خوشبختی دیگران است؟ در پ...

Average utilitarianism and several related axiologies, when paired with the standard expectational theory of decision-making under risk reasonable empirical credences, can find their pract...

Dr. Seed’s quote concerning the cloning of human beings seems to give the unnerving impression that he believes man’s relationship with God involves developing a human divinity as we “become one with Him.” Has Dr. Seed bitten from the same forbidden fruit consumed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and accepted the lie from Satan that, “You will not surely die...For God knows that when you e...