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What Are the Challenges of Increasing the Sustainability of Urban Livelihoods? [PDF]
, 2009 . This article places the challenge of rapid urbanisation throughout the world into a perspective that acknowledges inequalities due to economic history.
Whittingham, N. (Neil)
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Moral Necessity, Possibility, and Impossibility from Leibniz to Kant
Lexicon PhilosophicumIn all three of his major works on moral philosophy, Kant conceives of moral obligation, moral permissibility, and moral impermissibility in modal terms, namely in terms of moral necessity, moral possibility, and moral impossibility respectively.
Michael Walschots
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Just Say No (For Now): The Ethics of Illegal Drug Use
Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 2018 The war on drugs is widely criticized as unjust. The idea that the laws prohibiting drugs are unjust can easily lead to the conclusion that those laws do not deserve our respect, so that our only moral reason to obey them flows from a general moral ...
Mathieu Doucet
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Why genomics researchers are sometimes morally required to hunt for secondary findings
BMC Medical Ethics, 2020 Background Genomic research can reveal ‘unsolicited’ or ‘incidental’ findings that are of potential health or reproductive significance to participants.
Julian J. Koplin +2 more
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ESHRE task force on ethics and law 15: Cross-border reproductive care [PDF]
, 2008 This paper analyses the ethical aspects of cross-border reproductive care. Ethical questions are raised by some of the main reasons of cross-border travelling, i.e. law evasion and unequal access to treatment.
Cohen, J. +5 more
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Uncovering the Moral Heuristics of Altruism: A Philosophical Scale [PDF]
, 2020 Extant research suggests that individuals employ traditional moral heuristics to support their observed altruistic behavior; yet findings have largely been limited to inductive extrapolation and rely on relatively few traditional frames in so doing ...
Cole, Benjamin M. +2 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Black women face a myriad of challenges that heighten their susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), resulting in a disproportionate impact of STIs among this population. Yet, there is a lack of research that explores how women navigate these diagnoses with resilience.
Jaleah D. Rutledge +3 more
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Political Obligation: An Introduction to moral principles of the Interrelations between the Individual and state [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2006 Each one of us is lelong to the special political society. The nature of our polity and its laws, institutions, and values, as well as type character of the interrelations between us with the political institutions specially the state has naturally a ...
Siavash Jafari
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Forgiveness and Moral Obligation [PDF]
, 2005 In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. The questions surrounding forgiveness produce varying thoughts in regards to the action. Is forgiveness a moral obligation? Is this moral obligation tied to religious duty?
Rowland, Jodi
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Why Business Firms Have Moral Obligations to Mitigate Climate Change [PDF]
, 2018 Without doubt, the global challenges we are currently facing—above all world poverty and climate change—require collective solutions: states, national and international organizations, firms and business corporations as well ...
Schwenkenbecher, Anne
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