Sexuality and violence in the media have received significant attention by the researchers in communication studies. Unlike the extant literature, this research considers these phenomena as marketing instruments used by the mass media and approaches them from business ethics perspective. It aims at determining whether the use of sexuality and violence by the media institutions is ethical accord...

A hitherto unexamined problem for the ‘‘Kantian ideal’’ that one should always treat patients as ends in themselves, and never only as a means to other ends, is explored in this paper. The problem consists of a prima facie conflict between this Kantian ideal and the reality of medical practice. This conflict arises because, at least presently, medical practitioners can only acquire certain skil...

Videogames have the potential to create ethical experiences and encourage ethical reflection. Usually, this potential is understood in the context of the dominant moral theories: utilitarianism and Kantianism. However, it has been argued that a complete moral theory must also include the concept of an ethics of care. This paper utilizes the ethics of care as an alternative lens for examining th...

In the modern moral luck debate, Kant is standardly taken to be enemy of luck. My goal in this paper show that mistaken. The divided into six sections. first, I participants literature take anathema Kantian ethics. second, explain kind am going focus on here: consequence luck, a species resultant third, why philosophers have ethics reject and, particular, fourth, these are mistaken, and set out...

This article is an important addition to my previous work of integrating Jungian and Lacanian psychoanalysis (see Complexes Tickling the $ubject). A main focus of this article is to use Zizek’s interpretation of Lacan’s writing on desire and drive in relation to my Heideggerian interpretation of Jung. As a result, this article is an important contribution to the literature because it shows the ...

In public health ethics, as in bioethics, utilitarian approaches usually prevail, followed by Kantian and communitarian foundations. If one considers the nature and core functions of public health, which are focused on a population perspective, utilitarianism seems still more applicable to public health ethics. Nevertheless, faulting additional protections towards the human person, utilitariani...