Ethics

Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior". The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns matters of value, and thus comprises the branch of philosophy called axiology.Ethics seeks to resolve questions of human morality by defining concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime. As a field of intellectual inquiry, moral philosophy also is related to the fields of moral psychology, descriptive ethics, and value theory. Three major areas of study within ethics recognized today are: Meta-ethics, concerning the …

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Hòt'a! Enough! : Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights

DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

benefitted from his “unflappable nature and his ethics. There’s no question about his moral and ethical …

On the Divine Things and Their Revelation

MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controversies of his age. His influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about …

Jacobi recognized that the dialectic of Spinoza’s ethics was the fundament of the intellectual enterprise … philosophy, which is perfectly embodied by Spinoza’s ethics: “I love Spinoza, because he, more than any other … ﬁnite things in the background – and show how, in ethics and religion, the opposition between the actual … advances a speciﬁc idea on the connection between his ethics – that includes a discourse on divine things – … crack in Spinoza’s system can be noted in the Ethics parts fourth and ﬁfth, whilst Spinoza deals with …

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope : Academic Action on Truth and Reconciliation

UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

This value is reflected in the Secwépemc research ethics guidelines, which begin with the following statement: … Matthew, T. (2022). The Secwépemc Nation research ethics guidelines. Thompson Rivers University. https://www … ca/__shared/assets/ secwepemc-nation-research-ethics-guidelines55048.pdfDisrupting Colonial Practices …

Seized by Uncertainty : The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19

MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

modelling, emergency-room overload, and pandemic ethics; to economic issues, such as the pandemic’s impact … the pandemic, one on social justice and one on ethics. Unless otherwise noted, all observations, conclusions …

Prisoners’ Bodies : Activism, Health, and the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972–1985

MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

research and writing I have often questioned the ethics of using protagonist’s real names. On one hand …

Uncut : A Cultural Analysis of the Foreskin

CPRC: University of Regina Press · 5 November 2024 English

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …

from unquestioned cultural assumptions around ethics, sexuality, and aesthetics. But a new wave of … the biomedical sciences, including biomedical ethics. The argument that I stake out in this book aligns … energy on the removal of the foreskin, debating its ethics, morality, and religiosity, that it seemed to me …