In the climate of concern about high medical costs, the relationship between the trade and professional aspects of medical practice is receiving close scrutiny. In the United Kingdom there is talk of increasing privatisation of health services, and in the United States the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has attempted to define medicine as a trade for the purposes of commercial regulation. The S...

this research with explaining of concept of reason and distending with knowledge talks about ethical complementarity of human and relation between that concept and growth of reason with emphasis on ghorar-al-hekam book of imam ali. in this article, we will receive to depth relation between reason and ethic on imam ali’s speeches and ethic without reason isn’t complete and reason without ethic c...

Aldo Leopold, in "The Land Ethic," made 2 important contributions to conservation ethics: he emphasized the community and ecosystem levels of organization and he explicitly included people as members of the biotic community. Leopold's writings remain eloquent, inspirational, and influential, but the ideas he describes are inherently complex, and ecological science has continued to evolve since ...

background: development of organizations and increasing their role in society, the social consequences of their activities and their impact on the various stakeholders has become increasingly important so that the social and moral functions have a big influence on the overall performance of the organization. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between work ethics and organ...

There is increasing recognition of the need for a Planetary Ethic (for example, the urgent call by Paul Kurtz). Western civil society is based, it may be argued, more on consensus of behaviours than values. Appeals for behavioural outcomes (road safety, anti-violence campaigns) seldom explicate fundamental principles. Given this, even the partial success achieved in creating ‘decent’ society is...