Tag: Ethics

Free Download Kemi Ogunyemi, "Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa’s Public Sector, Volume I: Ethical Compliance and Institutional Performance "
English | ISBN: 3030953939 | 2022 | 220 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is an excellent resource for academics and students interested in ethics and accountability in the public sector, as well as for practitioners, NGO workers and policymakers. Over the last decades, issues in ethical leadership have become central to the global call for higher moral standards on the part of corporate organisations and their leaders and managers. The book’s chapters investigate these concerns in Africa, where governance gaps often reflect poor leadership. Parenthetically, in 2001, a UNDP report found difficulties in applying anti-corruption laws and managing public institutions in the continent. Twenty years on, significant efforts have been made to improve the situation, yet extensive challenges still subsist. In this first volume, contributors discuss the practice of ethics, anti-corruption, and performance management, and propose solutions, some general to the continent and others country-specific.

Free Download Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics
by Deborah C Poff and Alex C. Michalos
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3030227650 | 1944 Pages | True PDF | 26.5 MB

Free Download Arran Stibbe, "Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live by"
English | ISBN: 1350263117 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a foundational theory of econarrative, drawing from narratology, human ecology, critical discourse analysis, and ecolinguistics, and offering insights from a rich variety of texts including:

Free Download Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics By Evgenia Cherkasova
2009 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 9042026103 | PDF | 3 MB
In this book, Evgenia Cherkasova brings the philosopher Kant and the novelist Dostoevsky together in conversations that probe why duty is central to our moral life. She shows that just as Dostoevsky is indebted to Kant, so Kant would profit from the deeply philosophical narratives of Dostoevsky, which engage the problem of evil and the claims of human community. She not only produces a novel reading of Dostoevsky, but also guides us to later, often neglected Kantian texts. This study is written with scholarly care, penetrating analysis, elegance of style, and moral urgency: Cherkasova writes with both mind and heart. Emily Grosholz, Professor of Philosophy, The Pennsylvania State University Social Philosophy (SP), in conjunction with the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, SUNY Cortland, explores theoretical and applied issues in contemporary social philosophy, drawing on a variety of philosophical traditions

Free Download Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger, "Deleuze, Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Selfhood "
English | ISBN: 1474476082 | 2022 | 184 pages | EPUB | 370 KB
Andrew Jampol-Petzinger pursues Gilles Deleuze’s significantly under-discussed interpretation of Søren Kierkegaard. He presents a view of ethics and selfhood that responds to theories of moral judgment and selfhood based on stable, substance-orientated forms of identity. Starting from their common rejection of these categories of moral judgement, and looking at their shared projects of ethics as fundamentally a matter of becoming who one is, Jampol-Petzinger argues for a conception of normativity that privileges ideas of growth and self-overcoming while also recognizing the importance and need for values adequate to leading a liveable life.

Free Download Deleuze’s Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics By Ronald Bogue
2007 | 173 Pages | ISBN: 075466032X | PDF | 2 MB
Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze’s philosophy, this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze’s approach to the arts through detailed analysis of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.Bogue examines Deleuze’s "transverse way" of interrelating the ethical and the aesthetic, the transverse way being both a mode of thought and a practice of living. Among the issues examined are those of the relationship of music to literature, the political vocation of the arts, violence in popular music, the ethics and aesthetics of education, the use of music and sound in film, the role of the visual in literary invention, the function of the arts in cross cultural interactions, and the future of Deleuzian analysis as a means of forming an open, reciprocally self-constituting, transcultural global culture.

Free Download Nathan Emmerich, Pierre Mallia, Bert Gordijn, "Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care"
English | 2020 | pages: 393 | ISBN: 3030400352, 3030400328 | PDF | 4,2 mb
This book examines the ethics of end of life care, focusing on the kinds of decisions that are commonly made in clinical practice. Specific attention is paid to the intensification of treatment for terminal symptoms, particularly pain relief, and the withdrawal and withholding of care, particularly life-saving or life-prolonging medical care. The book is structured into three sections. The first section contains essays examining end of life care from the perspective of moral theory and theology. The second sets out various conceptual terms and distinctions relevant to decision-making at the end of life. The third section contains chapters that focus on substantive ethical issues. This format not only provides for a comprehensive analysis of the ethical issues that arise in the context of end of life care but allows readers to effectively trace the philosophical, theological and conceptual underpinnings that inform their specific interests. This work will be of interest to scholars working in the area as well as clinicians, specialists and healthcare professionals who encounter these issues in the course of their practice.

Free Download Beyond the Algorithm: AI, Security, Privacy, and Ethics by Omar Santos, Petar Radanliev
English | February 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0138268452 | 336 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more and more woven into our everyday lives―and underpins so much of the infrastructure we rely on―the ethical, security, and privacy implications require a critical approach that draws not simply on the programming and algorithmic foundations of the technology.

Free Download Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Future of Warfare: Global Perspectives
English | 2024 | ISBN: 103272952X | 299 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
This volume examines how the adoption of AI technologies is likely to impact strategic and operational planning, and the possible future tactical scenarios for conventional, unconventional, cyber, space and nuclear force structures. In addition to developments in the USA, Britain, Russia and China, the volume also explores how different Asian and European countries are actively integrating AI into their military readiness. It studies the effect of AI and related technologies in training regimens and command structures. The book also covers the ethical and legal aspects of AI augmented warfare.

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by Frank Columbus
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9798891134492 | 242 pages | True PDF | 25.94 MB