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To What Do We Have Moral Obligations and Why? I

open access: yes, 1985
In one of a series of articles on philosophical medical ethics, Gillon examines the nature of moral obligations entailed in the claim that all innocent human beings have a fundamental right to life.
Gillon, Raanan
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To What Do We Have Moral Obligations and Why? II

open access: yes, 1985
Following up on his 1 June 1985 article on moral obligations to living human beings versus other sentient beings, Gillon focuses on arguments for and against prohuman "speciesism," the claim that "viability" is a justifiable criterion for differentiating
Gillon, Raanan
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Factors influencing intention to plagiarize among nursing students in the Philippines

open access: yesBelitung Nursing Journal, 2023
Background: Plagiarism is an ethical concern among students but is insufficiently discussed and acknowledged in some educational institutions. Determining what factors influence plagiarism can help the academic community manage its incidence. Objective:
Mary Bless G. Debuque   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patients, Corporate Attorneys, and Moral Obligations

open access: yes, 2022
There are two main questions that any account of corporate lawyers’ moral obligations needs to answer: (1) Do corporate lawyers have moral obligations to third parties?
Motoarcă, Ioan-Radu
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Moral Agency in Other Animals

open access: yes, 2006
Some philosophers have argued that moral agency is characteristic of humans alone and that its absence from other animals justifies granting higher moral status to humans.
Paul Shapiro, Shapiro, Paul
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Correlation of Moral Courage and Organizational Commitment in Operating Room Nurses

open access: yesSiriraj Medical Journal, 2021
Objective: Moral courage distinguishes real moralists from hypocrites and indicates the commitment of nurses to their patients. Organizational commitment can also influence this commitment.
Rahimi Mohadeseh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical Precision in Nanoscale Brain Interfacing

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
As brain interfaces approach the nanoscale, precision no longer only measures—it knows, predicts, and potentially reshapes the mind. This work argues that traditional ethics fails under such conditions and proposes a shift toward continuous, operation‐based governance using the recovery–discovery framework to track, constrain, and responsibly steer ...
Guilherme Wood
wiley   +1 more source

The Moral Status of Babies and Our Obligations to Them [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis explores who counts: who is part of the so-called moral community, and why. If personhood is the measure of full moral considerability—as many take it to be—then marginal humans will not count as fully morally considerable.
Porter, Lindsey
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The Moral Argument for the Existence of God: An Evaluation of Some Recent Discussions

open access: yesReligions
This paper contributes to the discussion on the Moral Argument for the existence of God—an important argument of natural theology which is relevant to science and religion dialogues—by showing that the argument can be formulated in a such way that avoids
Henry Hock Guan Teh, Andrew Loke
doaj   +1 more source

Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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