Global ethics

Gorniak-Kocikowska K. The computer revolution and the problem of global ethics. Sci Eng Ethics 1996 2.2 177-90. 

This chapter has emphasized the global ethics of the publication process. Ethics are not complicated, and the practices and rules are mainly common sense. Adherence to ethical standards in research and publication is not optional rather, it is essential for the health of scientific research. 

Han Rung, a Catholic priest and President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic has concluded The apologetic argument often advanced by Muslims that armed jihad refers... 

Global Ethic Foundation, http //www.weltethos.org/dat-english/index.htm H. Kiing, Projekt Weltethos, Piper, Munchen, 1990. 

These two statements have to do with ethics, also called moral philosophy, which is derived from the Greek ethika, meaning character. Thus, ethics deals with standards of conduct or morals. Unfortunately, there are no universal standards only the ethics of Western civilization are considered in detail here. There is a movement toward the development of global ethics, which is described briefly at the end of this section. 

Concern over the environment has led to much interest in the development of global ethics. Considerable information on this subject is available on the Web site of The Institute for Global Ethics, which is located at Camden, Maine ... 

I therefore think that a good global ethics curriculum for engineering would look much like the ethics curriculum we now have. There could be a few improvements, of course, but these would be useful at home as well as abroad. I shall mention three. 

Yuksel, O., Murat, G. (1999). The globalization and global ethics The case of less developed countries. http //www.opfslu.cz/vvr/akce/turecko/pdf/YukselhuO.pdf... 

Dower, N. (2008). The nature and scope of development ethics. Journal cf Global Ethics, 4(3), 183-193. 

Keywords Construction Globalization Ethics Professionalism Professional registration... 

Curricula Reform and Development International ethics case studies should play an important role to enhance students awareness and ability to handle global ethics dilemmas. The case study materials should include typical cases relevant to ethics issues under various international contexts and from different countries. Further, it may also be informative to consider ethical imperatives held by other disciplines, especially when they pertain to how we manage a degrading natural environment (Watts and Buckeridge 2012). 

Keywords Moral imagination Engineering ethics Global ethics Teaching ethics... 

Fossil fuels are a nonrenewable resource. Whatever fossil fuel we use in the present will be forever lost to posterity. Is this fair The harmful effects of global warming are unlikely to occur tor many years. Should we care Is it ethical to take risks... 

Gostin, Lawrence O. 2004. Pandemic Influenza Public Health Preparedness for the Next Global Health Emergency. American Journal of Law, Medicine Ethics Winter 565-573. 

The ethics of pharmacogenomic regulation in a context of global injustice... 

Barnard, D. 2002. In the High Court of South Africa, Case No. 4138/98 The Global Politics of Access to Low-Cost AIDS Drugs in Poor Countries. Kennedy Institute of Ethics lournal 12(2) 159-174. 

Faunce, T. A. and P. Gatenby. 2005. Flexner s Ethical Oversight Reprised Contemporary Medical Education and the Health Impacts of Corporate Globalization. Medical Education 39 1066-1074. 

Thomas Pogge studied philosophy at Harvard. He has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, including various books on Rawls and global justice. He is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Professor II of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. 

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