Archive | November 2013

ISSUES IN APPLIED ETHICS: 7.3 Nature + Animals

7. 3. Nature: Friend or Foe? 7.3.1. Respecting All Life Is an Impossible Goal Common to many of the environmental, sustainable development, ecological balance, conservation, green, wildlife protection, animal rights, earth ethic, Gaia, respect or reverence for life, vegetarian, etc. movements, organizations, federations, and unions thriving, among other places, on the Internet today is much […]

ISSUES IN APPLIED ETHICS: 7.4 celebrity, or the cult of nothingness

7.4. Celebrity, or the Cult of Nothingness Recently a fashionable photographer was admitted to the presence of Michael Jackson. Surrounded by his staff, the rock idol was bandaged from head to toe; water was pouring from all over him, collecting in a pool at his feet. The photographer beheld the scene transfixed, not knowing what […]

ISSUES IN APPLIED ETHICS: 7.5 leadership

7.5. Leadership If leadership ability is due to a personal quality that influences people’s decisions regardless of rational considerations by which the desirability of actions could be weighed objectively, it can be harmful, and the conclusion that the societal role of leaders should be minimized or eliminated appears justified. But the general public perception of […]