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Cosmopolitan “No-Harm” Duty in Warfare: Exposing the Utilitarian Pretence of Universalism
Athena, 2022 This article demonstrates a priori cosmopolitan values of restraint and harm limitation exist to establish a cosmopolitan “no-harm” duty in warfare, predating utilitarianism and permeating modern international humanitarian law.
Ozlem Ulgen
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Promoting ethical practice: moral agency in a hostile environment [PDF]
, 2010 A reflective journey in probation and social work is the subject of this paper, during which the profession?s value base has been challenged by neo-liberal political and economic orthodoxy that has threatened to suppress social work?s �service ideal ...
Elliott, Nigel
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What's the use of ethical philosophy? The role of ethical theory in special educational needs [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines the relevance of modern moral philosophy to education, with particular reference to special educational needs. Where moral philosophers explore the tension between utilitarian and deontological reasoning, they often consider the ...
Lewin, David
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Supererogation and the Limits of Moral Obligations. Guest Editor’s Preface [PDF]
, 2017 Do moral obligations include all the good that can be possibly achieved? Does every instance of the good always entail obligatory performance?
Grigoletto, Simone
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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LAW AND ETHICAL PARADIGMS IN THE DISCOURSE ON WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
Kanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and MysticismThere are differences in the approach to law and ethics in Western philosophy compared to law and ethics in Islamic philosophy. Western philosophy itself is divided into several schools, including natural law philosophy, legal realism or positivistic ...
Citra Widyasari S +3 more
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Voices in Bioethics, 2020 The exigency and scarcity thrust on society by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic have produced novel interactions and tensions within normative ethical theory. Western ethics is occupied by the inherently incongruent frameworks of utilitarianism, deontology,
Samuel Dale
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Iranian Muslim Reformists and Contemporary Ethics; Revival of “Utilitarianism" [PDF]
, 2017 This paper raises a moral issue for contemporary post-revolutionary Muslim intellectuals in Iran. According to traditional Islamic teachings, ethics enables people to transcend from this mundane world and offers guidance on ways to improve virtues.
Dabbagh, Hossein
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