Bird on an ethics wire : battles about values in the culture wars /

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"Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem--the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Marga...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Somerville, Margaret A., 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Social values.
Ethics.
Culture conflict.
Culture shock.
Social Values
Ethics
Valeurs sociales.
Morale.
Conflit culturel.
ethics (philosophy)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Culture shock
Culture conflict
Social values
Lebensführung
Kulturkonflikt
Wertordnung
Ethik
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Should religion be evicted from the public square?
  • Are our "values conversations" sufficiently open and free? The university as a test case
  • Is the concept of human dignity useful, useless, or dangerous?
  • Legalizing euthanasia: Evolution or revolution in societal values?
  • Is every life beautiful?
  • How might a problem
  • a crisis pregnancy
  • be converted to a mystery, the gift of life?
  • How might the involvement of "applied ethics" in law affect our societal values? Ethics as "first aid" for law
  • What questions are we asking in contemporary cultural values conversations, and what messages are they communicating?

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