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Free Download Are Cyborgs Persons?: An Account of Futurist Ethics (Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors) by Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz
English | December 23, 2020 | ISBN: 3030603148 | 222 pages | MOBI | 1.86 Mb
This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis. Relying on concepts of cultural realism and post-Darwinism, Aleksandra Łukaszewicz Alcaraz redefines the notion of the person, rather than a human, and discusses the various issues of human body enhancement and online implants transforming modes of perception, cognition, and communication. She argues that new kinds of embodiment should not make acquiring the status of the person impossible, and different kinds of embodiments may be accepted socially and culturally. She proposes we consider ethical problems of agency and responsibility, critically approaching vitalist posthuman ethics, and rethinking the metaphysical standing of normativity, to create space for possible cyborgean ethics that may be executed in an Extended Republic of Humanity.

Free Download Janet Hunter, "Ethics, Business and Capitalism: Thailand and Indonesia in an Asian Perspective"
English | ISBN: 981325274X | 2024 | 350 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Academic analysis of business ethics in Southeast Asia.

Free Download Arthur S M Lim, "Introduction To Medical Ethics: Patient’s Interest First Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 9812793046 | 2007 | 108 pages | PDF | 847 KB
Throughout history, men have repeatedly made judgments regarding their own conduct and that of their fellow men. Some acts have been judged to be right or good, while other acts have been denounced as wrong or evil. Ethical judgment in medicine, as in other areas of life, is an attempt to distinguish between good and bad conduct. This book is based on three lectures given by the author as the Medical Director of Eye Clinic Singapura International. The first lecture was an address delivered to medical undergraduates at the National University of Singapore in 1975. The second was a Commonwealth Medical Association lecture delivered a decade ago. The third was a Singapore Medical Association lecture delivered in 1981. This volume, emphasizing the principles of medical ethics, has been kept simple and brief, and it is hoped that it will make interesting reading for both medical professionals and the general public.

Free Download Yarin Eski, "Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space "
English | ISBN: 1032567902 | 2024 | 368 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Breaking new ground in criminology, this book reflects on the expansion of outer space endeavours, the new pathways this presents for crime, challenges to Earth-based conceptions of justice, and the ethical issues raised.

Free Download Jennifer C. Cook, "Machine and Metaphor: The Ethics of Language in American Realism"
English | 2006 | pages: 172 | ISBN: 0415978351 | PDF | 1,0 mb
American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems to align itself with science, many have paired the two fields rather unproblematically. But this book demonstrates that many realist writers, from Mark Twain to Stephen Crane, Charles W. Chesnutt to Edith Wharton, felt a great deal of anxiety about the advent of new technologies – precisely at the crucial intersection of ethics and language. For these writers, the communication revolution was a troubling phenomenon, not only because of the ways in which the new machines had changed and increased the circulation of language but, more pointedly, because of the ways in which language itself had effectively become a machine: a vehicle perpetuating some of society’s most pernicious clichés and stereotypes – particularly stereotypes of race – in unthinking iteration. This work takes a close look at how the realists tried to forge an ethical position between the two poles of science and sentimentality, attempting to create an alternative mode of speech that, avoiding the trap of codifying iteration, could enable ethical action.

Free Download Charlotte B. Becker, "A History of Western Ethics"
English | 2003 | pages: 214 | ISBN: 0415968259 | PDF | 1,2 mb
This newly revised and updated edition of A History ofWestern Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas of the history of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition.

Free Download A New Approach to Research Ethics by Henriikka Mustajoki, Arto Mustajoki
English | March 13, 2017 | ISBN: 1138682225 | 254 pages | PDF | 15 Mb
A New Approach to Research Ethics is a clear, practical and useful guide to the ethical issues faced by researchers today. Examining the theories of ethical decision-making and applying these theories to a range of situations within a research career and process, this text offers a broader perspective on how ethics can be a positive force in strengthening the research community.

Free Download David Wood, "The Step Back: Ethics And Politics After Deconstruction"
English | 2005 | pages: 249 | ISBN: 0791464636, 0791464644 | PDF | 0,9 mb
This original contribution to the ethical and political significance of philosophy addresses a number of major themes-identity, violence, the erotic, freedom, responsibility, religious belief, globalization-and critically engages with the work of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas. It promotes a unique blend of deconstructive critique and a certain English skepticism, leading to the affirmation of a negative capability-a patience and vigilance in the face of both human folly and philosophy’s own homegrown pathologies. The author argues for the extension of our sense of openness and responsibility to animal life, and indeed life in general, and not just to the human.

Free Download Sidney Bloch, "Psychiatric Ethics Ed 5"
English | ISBN: 019883926X | 2021 | 664 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multi-faceted. Well-reasoned ethical decision-making is essential to deal effectively with patients and promote optimal patient care. Drawing on the positive reception of Psychiatric Ethics since its first publication in 1981, this highly anticipated 5th edition offers psychiatrists and other mental health professionals a coherent guide to dealing with the diverse ethical issues that challenge them.

Free Download Gysbert M.H. Loubser, "Paul Cries Freedom in Galatia!: On Ethics in the New Creation (6) "
English | ISBN: 3643907257 | 2017 | 356 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This study emphasizes Paul’s urgency in conveying the radical newness of life since the advent of Christ and his Spirit. Just as the Spirit introduces believers to the life in Christ, he equally leads them to live life in the faithfulness of Christ, producing the fruit of the Spirit. Paul describes this as a life of freedom from flesh and its law, as well as the elements of the world. Guiding believers ethically from inside and empowering them to do God’s will, the Spirit has no need of law, making the christological pneumatological ethic of the new creation wholly anomistic. (Series: Theology in Africa, Vol. 6) [Subject: Religious Studies, Christian Studies]