Extractions: Test your ethical choices with this simple evaluation. Site Overview: View Answers: View current or past responses to ethical dilemmas. Guest Ethicists: Essays by insightful and diverse contributors. About Us: The biographies page gives you an in depth perspective on each ethicist with an explanation of how they determined their ethical perspective.
CCES Promotes drugfree sport, equity, fair play, safety and non-violence. English and French versions. http://www.cces.ca/
The Biological Basis Of Ethics Chapter excerpted from 'The Expanding Circle ethics and Sociobiology' (Oxford, 1981). http://www.petersingerlinks.com/expanding circle.pdf
PHIL 236.3 -- Ethics And Technology Forum For students at the University of Saskatchewan and anyone who is interested in discussing issues related to ethics, philosophy and technology. http://duke.usask.ca/~wjb289/PHL236/forum/
Extractions: About the the Forum The Ethics and Technology Forum is a perfectly ordinary (though reasonably full-featured) web-based bulletin board system (BBS). It exists for two main purposes: 1) to provide a forum for students in PHIL 236 at the University of Saskatchewan to discuss and ask questions about the course and, as a separate mandate, 2) to provide a forum for anyone who happens to be interested in discussing issues related to ethics, philosophy and technology. It's an experiment: I have no idea how popular or how useful it will turn out to be.
Extractions: Ethics The field of ethics, also called moral philosophy, involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Philosophers today usually divide ethical theories into three general subject areas: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Metaethics investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean. Are they merely social inventions? Do they involve more than expressions of our individual emotions? Metaethical answers to these questions focus on the issues of universal truths, the will of God, the role of reason in ethical judgments, and the meaning of ethical terms themselves. Normative ethics takes on a more practical task, which is to arrive at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct. This may involve articulating the good habits that we should acquire, the duties that we should follow, or the consequences of our behavior on others. Finally, applied ethics involves examining specific controversial issues, such as abortion, infanticide, animal rights, environmental concerns, homosexuality, capital punishment, or nuclear war. By using the conceptual tools of metaethics and normative ethics, discussions in applied ethics try to resolve these controversial issues. The lines of distinction between metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics are often blurry. For example, the issue of abortion is an applied ethical topic since it involves a specific type of controversial behavior. But it also depends on more general normative principles, such as the right of self-rule and the right to life, which are litmus tests for determining the morality of that procedure. The issue also rests on metaethical issues such as, "where do rights come from?" and "what kind of beings have rights?"
CCSR: Home Page Coorganizers of computer ethics conferences (EthiComp) and providers of social-impact advising to government and other groups. News. Resources. Discussions. Conferences listings. http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/
Science And Institutions Articles by Luis GonzalezMestres, including topics of science ethics and other social aspects. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4605/
Extractions: This page hosted by Get your own Free Homepage Hello, my name is Luis GONZALEZ-MESTRES. I am a physicist working for CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, France), and I am staying mainly in Paris. My professional domain is elementary particle physics, both theoretical and experimental with particular emphasis on cross-disciplinary research close to astrophysics (e.g. neutrino physics, dark matter, cryogenic detectors, relativity...). My interests are: Science and scientific institutions. The description of my page is: Science (Physics), Ethics and Society, and everything will be permanently open to debate. CLICK HERE TO GET THE INDEX OF MATTERS You can send me a mail to luisgm@geocities.com or, if it is urgent, to my professional E-mail address Luis.Gonzalez@lapp.in2p3.fr . Please do not hesitate to contact me. My recent scientific work can be found at the SLAC SPIRES database at http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/FIND/hep , performing the search "find author gonzalez-mestres" . This allows to get .tex .ps and .pdf files. I am currently working on some
DrHumph Utopian Analysis, A Science Of Civilization Based on political experiments, refuting the ideals of socialism and authoritarianism, and using the true ideals as alternatives. Includes synopsis and list of articles on topic. http://members.aol.com/DrHumph/utopias.html
Extractions: Contents Modified 18 Nov 2003 A Philosophical Breakthrough - the science of utopian analysis is just that. Ideals Liberty, Reciprocity, Justice, Aesthetics, Equal Opportunity. Evidence Prohibition, Catholic Index, Westward Expansion, Soviet Collapse. The Third Republic democracy without bureaucracy - based on the T'ang Mandarins. Beautiful City ban cars, dogs and skyscrapers. Paris, Greenwich Village. Urban Gridlock ban cars, combine bicycles and robotic freeway train-buses. Lady Justice the lady with the upraised sword, scales in left hand, blindfold. Stopping Terrorists stopping terrorists and serial killers without giving up civil liberty. War On Drugs the classic violation of the ideal of personal liberty. Abortion abortion is not murder, nor is it a virtue. A compromise. Perpetual Peace evolution of global community well under way. The problem of terrorism. Seeds of Hate roots of 9/11 in the religion of science. Hubbert's Peak the impending world oil shortage and resulting collapse of economies. Tube Trains evacuated tube magneto-levitation trains.
Computer Ethics Institute Page Ten Commandments of Computer ethics. The Computer ethics Institute is a project of the Brookings Institution. http://www.cpsr.org/program/ethics/cei.html
Extractions: of Computer Ethics by the Computer Ethics Institute Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people. Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work. Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's computer files. Thou shalt not use a computer to steal. Thou shalt not use a computer to bear false witness. Thou shalt not copy or use proprietary software for which you have not paid. Thou shalt not use other people's computer resources without authorization or proper compensation. Thou shalt not appropriate other people's intellectual output. Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the program you are writing or the system you are designing. Thou shalt always use a computer in ways that insure consideration and respect for your fellow humans. Computer Ethics Institute
Computer Hacking And Ethics Paper about developing ethics in teenage hackers. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hackers.html
Extractions: University of California, Berkeley [A slightly different version of this paper was written for the ``Panel on Hacking'' held by the Association for Computing Machinery in April, 1985. Thanks to Batya Friedman, Donn Parker, and Carter Sanders for their comments on early drafts.] [Neal Patrick] said he and his friends, who named themselves the ``414s'' after the Milwaukee area code, did not intend to do any damage and did not realize they were doing anything unethical or illegal. In fact, when asked [at a Congressional subcommittee hearing] at what point he questioned the ethics of his actions, he answered, ``Once the FBI knocked on the door.'' It's no secret that a mature sense of ethics is something a person develops over time. Parents are supposed to exercise authority over their children because the children are not expected to know how to make certain decisions for themselves. We have a juvenile court system separate from the adult criminal court system because we believe that a young person is not capable of criminal intent in the same sense that an adult is capable of it.
Essay An essay by Jonathan Detwiler, a sophmore civil engineering student at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. http://www.worldofjd.homestead.com/Essay.html
Extractions: An alternative argument presented against hunting is based on the way some hunters do things. Some concerns are how some hunters trespass, litter, dispose of killed animals inappropriately, and how hunters behave in public. The land available to hunters has been decreasing for just those reasons. Land owners feel like they can't trust the hunters. They are concerned hunters will leave gates open, destruct property, poach, and be unsafe. Anti-hunting people will also point out things hunters do in public. Among those things are, sticking bloody deer on top of vans, leaving the tailgate down so that everyone can see the deer, and even the image that most hunters are dumb rednecks. The concerned people just feel that people who hunt tend to be jerks and they don't won't to have bums out handling guns and killing things. The final major argument against hunting and the most popular is that hunting is just too dangerous. This argument is inspired by the many stories the media presents about hunting accidents. One example of a gun accident comes from Oregon. Ironically, the example involves two brothers that survived the Oregon High School shooting in 1998. Richard Peek Junior, 19, who had is arm shot in the school shootings was hunting with his 17 year old brother Robert. Thinking they heard a deer the boys ed their guns and knelt down. Then, either by his hand slipping on the hammer or his gun getting caught on his clothes, Robert's gun went off. The bullet went directly through his brothers head killing him instantly. Terrible stories like that provoke thought. Many view hunting as just to dangerous. They don't believe people are just not responsible enough to hunt safely.
Inc.com Inc. magazine online, small business resources, and business advice at Inc.com Please Note You are viewing the unstyled version of Inc.com. http://www.inc.com/home/
Extractions: Please Note: You are viewing the unstyled version of Inc.com. Either your browser does not support CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or it is disabled. Skip to the content of this page Advanced options showLogin('', '/home/index.html'); John Zogby backed into his career as a pollster, and for a time had to cede the national spotlight to bigger names. Now he has his sights on becoming the Gallup of his generation. Read on powered by SBC Internet security is a problem. Find solutions in this week's Internet Strategies Center. Small business owners consider banking elsewhere when mergers happen.
Extractions: The Riddle of Ethics Without Religion By Michael Shermer "Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering. And behold, instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest for ever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic....Instead of taking possession of man's freedom, Thou didst increase it, and burdened the spiritual kingdom of mankind with its sufferings for ever." Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Grand Inquisitor," Brothers Karamozov , Book V, Chapter 5. On Friday, May 24, 1996, the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury (starting with St. Augustine in 597), spiritual leader of over 70 million Anglicans, told 425 civic, business, and religious leaders at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel that "secularism" is the cause of much of the West's moral woes. Paradoxically, this was followed by a litany of "unspeakable atrocities against innocent people" committed in the name of religion, as in Bosnia and against the Christian minority in Islamic Sudan. The Archbishop-the Most Reverend George L. Carey-told his audience that only faith can stop these atrocities (Stammer, p. 1): How else can momentum be found for combating the worst excesses of poverty and inequality around the world? How else can we find the self-restraint in the interest of future generations in order to save our environment? How else can we combat the malignant power of exclusive nationalism and racism? All this requires the dynamic power of commitment, faith and love. The privatized morality of "what works for me" will not do.
SwetsWise: Login ethics Newsline from the Institute for Global ethics ethics Newsline, published weekly by the Institute for Global ethics, is the premier online source for news and information on ethics and current events. http://www.swetswise.com/link/access_db?issn=1382-6891
Journalism's Quandary Dollars Vs. Ethics Site analyzing issues related to financial pressures and other factors on journalism and media. http://www.erols.com/champion/page4.html
Extractions: Last week a panel appointed by the influential Institute of Medicine issued a report recommending that all pregnant women be tested for the AIDS virus as part of routine prenatal care. There are important reasons to undertake the first widespread HIV screening of a part of the population. Most important, testing during pregnancy allows for early drug treatment that can substantially reduce the risk of passing the infection from mother to child, and offers women the best chance to fight their own infection. But the panel also came to more worrisome conclusions in order to implement across-the-board testing of all pregnant women two recommendations with ethical implications. First: members suggested that pre-test counseling requirements could and should be relaxed, and second: that unless women specifically objected they should be tested for HIV.
Extractions: University of San Diego "A Prelection to Greek Ethics" On-line texts of Aristotle's works in moral philosophy: Eudemian Ethics . Perseus Project, Tufts University. English with Greek links. Nichomachean Ethics . Hypertext at Perseus. Nichomachean Ethics . W.D. Ross, trans. ASCI. Politics . Hypertext. Perseus Project, Tufts University. Politics . Jowett, trans. ASCI. Aristotle's Political Philosophy Page by Clifford A. Bates Jr.
