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Ethics of War and Peace in Iran and Shi’i Islam


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English | 2016 | pages: 364 | ISBN: 1442629517 | PDF | 3,4 mb
Nearly four decades after a revolution, experiencing one of the longest wars in contemporary history, facing political and ideological threats by regional radicals such as ISIS and the Taliban, and having succeeded in negotiations with six world powers over her nuclear program, Iran appears as an experienced Muslim country seeking to build bridges with its Sunni neighbours as well as with the West.

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Individually Ourselves Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School


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English | ISBN: 1805391011 | 2023 | 184 pages | PDF | 944 KB
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school, Individually Ourselves demonstrates how young people elaborate notions of individual personhood through their friendships, and pervasive peer ethics, shaped in and through relations of power and inequality. By examining the interplay between ourselves and others during such a formative time of life, the book addresses how individuality is produced in everyday life and how our interactions help create the person we become.

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China, Engineering, and Ethics A Sketch of the Landscape (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society)


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English | April 11, 2024 | ISBN: 3031534638 | 119 pages | PDF, EPUB | 2.40 Mb
China is a leading engineering country, fueling unprecedented global development. Technology and educational exchanges bring Chinese organizations, practitioners, and students together with similar groups from around the world. These collaborations depend on ethical and cultural considerations as much as technical expertise. To facilitate understanding and strengthen cooperation, this volume provides an overview of current research and discussions related to China, engineering, and ethics. It includes perspectives from experts in engineering and technology ethics with first-hand China experience.

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Ethics Research Compendium


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English | ISBN: 1622577477 | 2013 | 282 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book present research in ethics with topics including a step-by-step guide to students; wellbeing and disadvantage; ethical disposition of accounting and business management students; collegiality of journals and self-citation on annual bibliometric scorings; trends of tainted publications and their authors’ publication profiles; from bioethics to biopolitics and the limits of liberalism.

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Digital Ethics in the Age of AI


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 9781787785519 | 199 Pages | True EPUB | 9 MB
This book presents a timely and significant addition to the ongoing discourse around the ethical implications of AI in general, as well as the new and disruptive AI technologies, such as generative AI platforms like ChatGPT.

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Cybersecurity, Ethics, and Collective Responsibility


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English | April 23, 2024 | ISBN: 0190058137 | 384 pages | MOBI | 1.60 Mb
This is an open access title. It is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence. It is available to read and download as a PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform.

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Concepts of Person and Christian Ethics


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English | ISBN: 0521090245 | 2008 | 424 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Should "personhood" or its perceived absence determine the allocation of scarce medical resources? This and other issues make the concept and definition of personhood central to current debates over ethics. In a wide-ranging discussion notable for its clarity, Stanley Rudman traces the development of modern ideas about personhood. Arguing against those who define persons by purely moral and rational criteria, he posits an ethic that instead understands personhood in relation to other people, to the environment, and to God.

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Corpse Care Ethics for Tending the Dead


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English | January 3, 2023 | ISBN: 1506471315 | 150 pages | PDF | 3.42 Mb
Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns.

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