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Population ageing, in both the developed and developing world, has put increasing demands on health resources; this has brought to the fore various ethical issues related to ageing. This paper examines moral issues that confront people as they grow old as well as those who are involved with them. The concepts of autonomy, dignity, justice and intergenerational solidarity are explored. Living wills and the role of a proxy could help to deal with the common ethical dilemmas related to death and dying. Positive action by governments to overcome ageism is recommended. The need to establish ethical guidelines, which take into consideration differences in religion, culture, ethnicity and race, is highlighted.

Ethical Issues in Accounting offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction for students and teachers of business studies and accountancy as well as the practicing accountant. The book covers the ethical implications of several aspects of accounting: * ethics and taxation * creative accounting * ethics in accounting regulation * ethical dilemmas in the public sector * whistleblowing * various aspects of social accounting, including environmental accounting. The fitness of the accounting profession as guardians of accounting and auditing ethics is also discussed in detail

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Idealism: 1884 -1894 -- Chapter 1 ORIGINS OF DEWEY'S IDEALISM -- Background of Dewey's Idealism -- Neo-Hegelian Ethical Theory -- Chapter 2 DEWEY'S EARLY IDEALISM -- Dewey's Initial Response -- Philosophy, Science, and Psychology -- Dewey's Psychology -- Chapter 3 OUTLINES OF A CRITICAL THEORY OF ETHICS, 1891 -- Moral Theory and Practice -- Moral Judgment and Idealist Logical Theory -- Moral Theory and Practice in Dewey's Outlines -- Critical Objections to the Outlines -- Chapter 4 DEWEY'S REEXAMINATION OF SELF-REALIZATION ETHICS, 1891-1894 -- Critique of Self-realization -- The End of Morality in the Study of Ethics -- Moral Judgment in the Study of Ethics -- Part II Pragmatism: 1894-1908 -- Chapter 5 YEARS OF TRANSITION, 1894-1903 -- Dewey on the Reflex Arc -- Pragmatic Developments in Dewey's Thought -- Dewey's Reformulation of the Relation of Natural and Ethical Science -- Chapter 6 PRAGMATIC ETHICAL SCIENCE, THE 1908 ETHICS -- The Functions of Scientific Theories -- First Principles of Moral Science: Moral Agency and Its Object -- The Good and the Right -- Moral Judgment -- Scientific Practical Judgment -- Chapter 7 TOWARD A PRAGMATIC COMMUNITARIANISM -- Facts and Values: "The Logic of Judgments of Practice -- Philosophy, Democracy, and Education -- Optimism, Meliorism, and Human Nature -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, Case Studies, Examples, Appendixes and Scenarios -- Acknowledgement -- PART I Ethics and Organisations -- Introduction -- 1 The Ethical Organisation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Organisations are not agents -- 1.3 Limited liability -- 1.4 Society, markets and law -- 1.5 Characteristics of ethical organisations -- 1.6 Theories of corporate moral excellence -- 1.7 Ethics and stakeholder theory -- 1.8 Ethics and corporate governance -- 1.9 A holistic paradigm -- 1.10 The ethical organisation -- 1.11 Dimensions of ethicality -- PART II Case Studies -- 2 The Use of Cases in the Study of Business Ethics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Aims of the case study approach -- 2.3 Approaches to the analysis of cases -- 2.4 Ethical theories -- 3 Turner & -- Newall: The Case of the Asbestos Industry -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The facts of the case -- 3.3 Turner & -- Newall's reaction to the asbestos hazard -- 3.4 T& -- N - an ethical analysis -- 3.5 Johns-Manville and the asbestos crisis -- 3.6 An alternative solution: The Goyder Sanction -- 4 Virgin Atlantic and British Airways -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Background -- 4.3 The story -- 4.4 The consequences -- 4.5 Postscript -- 5 The Co-operative Bank's Ethical Policy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Successful ethics -- 5.3 Organisational context -- 5.4 Research findings -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Queens Moat Houses plc -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A tale of two valuers -- 6.3 Department of Trade investigation -- 6.4 Corporate governance in action -- 6.5 Debenture holders and capital reorganisation -- 6.6 Past dividend payments and shareholders' interests -- 6.7 The new management -- Introduction -- PART III Ethics and Professional Life -- 7 The Ethical Organisation and Codes of Ethics -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The development of codes of ethics.

The papers in this Special Issue point out that the common assumptions of the great majority of work on ethical consumption are that producers are located in poorer countries, in particular those of the global South, and consumers are located in richer ones particularly in the global North. Not only political-economic perspectives of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and Global Production Networks (GPNs), but also cultural studies of consumption typically focus on ethical consumption in North America and Western Europe. Consequently, ethical consumption in the global South is under-researched and under-theorized, despite the fact that the burgeoning middle classes within the so-called emerging economies are playing an increasingly significant role in the global politics of consumption (Chua, 2000, Clammer, 2003, Guarin and Knorringa, 2014, Tsang, 2014 and Zhang, 2010) leading to questions both of consumption being used for self-definition and as a new vehicle for expressing social and environmental concerns (Davis, 2005 and Lange and Meier, 2010). The papers collected here address the over-arching question of what the globalization of consumerism and rising middle classes mean for ethical consumption beyond advanced capitalist societies. Is ethical consumption increasing with the rise of a global middle class and, if so, is that changing what ethical consumption entails and where and how it is practised? What does ethical consumption look like in what are variously and problematically termed 'rising power' and 'emerging economy' contexts, and how does this challenge existing conceptualizations? Moving beyond the case of ethically-labelled goods, some of the papers also broaden investigations to examine alternate moralities of consumption practices associated with ethics of care for proximate rather than distant others. The papers probe both what 'ethical consumption' is and how the concept and category may travel and change as it appears in different cultural contexts. The concept has been applied to indicate three separate but related domains of ethical values. First, the policies of different institutions and corporate actors, that second come to constitute products marked as ethically produced and traded and, thirdly, the values and judgements of consumers in their purchasing decisions. All of these are problematic in and of themselves and tend to represent different sub-disciplinary interests in studies of consumers in relatively wealthy countries, but are open to arguably wider debate when the assumed institutions, markets and consumers change locations.

1. A theory of policing : the enforcement of moral rights -- 2. Authority and discretion in policing -- 3. The moral justification for police use of deadly force -- 4. Privacy, confidentiality, and security in policing -- 5. Corruption and anti-corruption in policing -- 6. Restorative justice in policing.

Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequently a vision of ethics, showing how the two are integrated in his philosophical method, and allowing us to reframe traditional problems in moral philosophy considered as external to questions of meaning.

This is a major new study of Kant's ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that Kant's ethical vision is grounded in the idea of the dignity of the rational nature of every human being. Undergoing both natural competitiveness and social antagonism the human species, according to Kant, develops the rational capacity to struggle against its impulses towards a human community in which the ends of all are to harmonize and coincide. The distinctive features of the book are twofold. First, it focuses for the first time on the central role played in Kant's ethical theory by the value of rational nature as an end itself. Second, it shows the importance of Kant's systematic theory of human nature and history, and its implications for the structure, formulation, and application of Kant's moral principles. This comprehensive study will be of critical importance to students of moral philosophy, the history of ideas, political theory, and religious studies

THE ARTICLE IS THE LAST OF A SERIES OF PAPERS RESPONDING TO THE "MINIMAX REGRET" CRITERION OF VOTER PARTICIPATION AS PROPOSED BY FEREJOHN AND FIORINA. THE AUTHORS SUGGEST THAT BECAUSE EGOISTICAL PREFERENCES ARE WEAK IN THE VOTING DECISION, VOTERS MAY BE FOLLOWING THEIR USUALLY LESS VISIBLE ETHICAL PREFERENCES INSTEAD. THEY DISCUSS THE SOURCES OF ETHICAL VOTING BEHAVIOR, VOTING, MORALITY, AND SOCIETY.

AbstractThis article posits, based upon a comparative reading of various writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Abraham Isaac Kook, that not only does ethics hold an important place in the spiritual life of these mystically oriented, ethically valenced writers, but that for them ethics and spirituality are inextricably intertwined. For these writers, ethics is a sine qua non for spirituality, and spirituality is intimately interlaced with, and lends support to, the ethical life. Concomitantly, this article postulates that in advancing this claim about ethics, Emerson, Heschel, and Kook wrote with a studied lyrical, poetic prose—a poetics of ethics—in order to impress upon their readers the importance, and the beauty, of the ethical life.