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Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework

Author : Dennis R. Cooley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401772649
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Death’s Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework written by Dennis R. Cooley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous. By using the best and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics, it develops a framework for understanding both what death is – which requires a great deal of time spent developing definitions of the various types of identity-in-the-moment and identity-over-time – and the values involved in death. This pragmatic framework answers questions about why death is a form of loss; why we experience the emotional reactions, feelings and desires that we do; which of these reactions, feelings and desires are justified and which are not; if we can survive death and how; whether our deaths can harm us; and why and how we should prepare for death. Thanks to the pragmatic framework employed, the answers to the various questions are more likely to be accurate and acceptable than those with less rigorous scholarly underpinnings or which deal with utopian worlds.

Death's Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework

Author : Dennis R. Cooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789401772655
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (726 download)

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Download or read book Death's Values and Obligations: A Pragmatic Framework written by Dennis R. Cooley and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous. By using the best, and often the latest, work in thanatology, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, physics, philosophy and ethics, it develops a framework for understanding both what death is - which requires a great deal of time spent developing definitions of the various types of identity-in-the-moment and identity-over-time - and the values involved in death. This pragmatic framework answers questions about why death is a form of loss; why we experience the emotional reactions, feelings and desires that we do; which of these reactions, feelings and desires are justified and which are not; if we can survive death and how; whether our deaths can harm us; and why and how we should prepare for death. Thanks to the pragmatic framework employed, the answers to the various questions are more likely to be accurate and acceptable than those with less rigorous scholarly underpinnings or which deal with utopian worlds. .

Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide

Author : Paolo Stellino
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030539377
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide written by Paolo Stellino and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide. Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy - Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein - their arguments in favour or against suicide are explained, contextualized, examined and critically assessed. Taken together, these four perspectives provide an illuminating overview of the philosophical arguments that can be used for or against one’s right to commit suicide. Intended both for specialists and those interested in understanding the many complexities underlying the philosophical debate on suicide, this book combines philosophical depth with exemplary clarity.

Discourses on the Edges of Life

Author : Vicent Salvador
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261377
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Discourses on the Edges of Life written by Vicent Salvador and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and more specifically with the discourses that surround – and construct our perspectives and understanding of – death and dying. Of course, the present volume does not attempt to be exhaustive, and considers the subject from several standpoints, including linguistics, anthropology, history of medicine, and importantly, literary studies. It combines various points of view and different methodologies of knowledge, in the hope that they come together to constitute a written dialogue –or more precisely, a polylogue. The ordering of the texts in this volume provides readers with an itinerary that begins with more general approaches, such as a historical presentation of the medicalisation of death and an in-depth reflection on the best way to die, and ends with studies of specific literary works from different periods. The itinerary that this book provides is framed by a discourse analysis-based overview that explores how different approaches to death and dying intersect and complement each other in an interdisciplinary endeavour. This analysis focuses on literary and non-literary genres in order to shed some new light on a topic that is inexhaustible because of its sociocultural relevance.

Latin American Perspectives on Scientific Research

Author : Fernando Lolas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527542335
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Latin American Perspectives on Scientific Research written by Fernando Lolas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers presents case studies and reflections on research bioethics from the standpoint of two Latin American academics involved in the teaching and dissemination of good practices and essential information on bioethics and various related topics. While limited in scope to a few key issues, the text may be read as an inspiration to comparative analyses of research practices involving human subjects and as an example of the reception of fundamental ideas on science and technology adopted in the Latin American region after their development in other areas of the globe.

The 2021 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab

Author : Jakob Mökander
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031098463
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The 2021 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab written by Jakob Mökander and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual edited volume explores a wide range of topics in digital ethics and governance. Included are chapters that: analyze the opportunities and ethical challenges posed by digital innovation; delineate new approaches to solve them; and offer concrete guidance on how to govern emerging technologies. The contributors are all members of the Digital Ethics Lab (the DELab) at the Oxford Internet Institute, a research environment that draws on a wide range of academic traditions. Collectively, the chapters of this book illustrate how the field of digital ethics - whether understood as an academic discipline or an area of practice - is undergoing a process of maturation. Most importantly, the focus of the discourse concerning how to design and use digital technologies is increasingly shifting from ‘soft ethics’ to ‘hard governance’. Then, there is the trend in the ongoing shift from ‘what’ to ‘how’, whereby abstract or ad-hoc approaches to AI governance are giving way to more concrete and systematic solutions. The maturation of the field of digital ethics has, as this book attempts to show, been both accelerated and illustrated by a series of recent events. This text thereby takes an important step towards defining and implementing feasible and effective approaches to digital governance. It appeals to students, researchers and professionals in the field.

Core Values, Organizational Preferences, and Children's Games in Akureyri, Iceland

Author : George William Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation

Author : Harvey Shapiro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739175319
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation by : Harvey Shapiro

Download or read book Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation written by Harvey Shapiro and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation: From Volozhin to Buczacz, by Harvey Shapiro, PhD, brings together two different fields of study--modern Jewish studies and contemporary educational theory--to provide new theoretical frameworks for their interaction. Although Jewish studies and education programs at secular universities have joined denominational and transdenominational institutions of higher learning in adopting a dual or parallel course structure, there has been little scholarly attention given to the basis for doing so. Shapiro provides alternative theoretical frameworks for the relationship between Jewish studies and educational theory and discusses different ways of developing and articulating these relationships between disciplines. Shapiro shows what is at stake when students and faculty think and communicate together across discourses--in particular, between the fields of education and Jewish studies. Presenting an alternative to conventional notions of interdisciplinarity, this book's import extends to virtually all relationships between the humanities and professional education when these different discourses illuminate and challenge one another.

Constitutional Imaginaries

Author : Jiří Přibáň
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000456102
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Imaginaries written by Jiří Přibáň and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics. Constitutional imaginaries invite constitutional and political theorists, philosophers and sociologists to rethink the concept of constitution as the normative legal limitation and control of political power. They show that political constitutions include societal forces impossible to contain by legal norms and political institutions. The constitution of society as one polity defined by the unity of topos-ethnos-nomos, that is the unity of territory, people and their laws, informed the rise of modern nations and nationalisms as much as constitutional democratic statehood and its liberal and republican regimes. However, the imaginary of polity as one nation living on a given territory under the constitutional rule of law is challenged by the process of European integration and its imaginaries informed by transnational legal and societal pluralism, administrative governance, economic performativity and democratically mobilised polity. This book discusses the sociology of imagined communities and the philosophy of modern social imaginaries in the context of transnational European constitutionalism and its recent theories, most notably the theory of societal constitutions. It offers a new approach to the legal constitutions as societal power formations evolving at national, European and global levels. The book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in constitutional and European law theory and philosophy as much as interdisciplinary and socio-legal studies of transnational law and society.

Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective

Author : Stuart J. Youngner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536362
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective written by Stuart J. Youngner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades. In contrast to most books about euthanasia, which are written by authors from countries where the practice is illegal and therefore practised only secretly, this book analyzes empirical data and real-life clinical behavior. Its essays were written by the leading Dutch scholars and clinicians who shaped euthanasia policy and who have studied, evaluated and helped regulate it. Some of them have themselves practised euthanasia. The book will contribute to the world literature on physician-assisted death by providing a comprehensive examination of how euthanasia has been practised and how it has evolved in one specific national and cultural context. It will greatly advance the understanding of euthanasia among both advocates and opponents of the practice.

The Organization Design Guide

Author : Herman Vantrappen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100382420X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Organization Design Guide written by Herman Vantrappen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization redesign exercises consume enormous time, resources and energy, and yet they so often get stuck midway or fail to deliver the aspired benefits. This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive guide, enabling executives and their teams to have nuanced and in-depth discussions about substantive design choices. Once these choices are clear, the teams can confidently initiate the change process. The book brings together the building blocks of organization design thinking into a logical flow. It offers a high-quality framework, with each building block broken down into specific design questions. For each of the five categories of design variables – architecture, processes, culture, people and technology – the book enables executives to discover and weigh up a variety of situation-specific design alternatives. The book steers clear of academic abstractions, simplistic formulaic solutions, flavor-of-the-year debates and misleading anecdotes from today’s superstar firms. It is written for smart executives at mainstream companies who realize that organization design choices are contextual and influenced by their company’s specific history. The book presents a pragmatic framework that guides managers in search of a conclusive and efficient organization design process. It is relevant to C-suite executives and directors, as well as senior and middle managers, internal project leaders and organization design consultants.

Global Journalism Ethics

Author : Stephen J. A. Ward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773585214
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Global Journalism Ethics written by Stephen J. A. Ward and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument for a new system of ethics in journalism that will take into account its global reach and impact.

God, Humanity and the Cosmos - 3rd Edition

Author : Christopher Southgate
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567524671
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality

Author : Elizabeth MacKinlay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000958213
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality written by Elizabeth MacKinlay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses important issues of ageing and spirituality and reflects on the impact of culture on both constructs. The papers are contemporary in that they include excerpts of cultural impact on spirituality from New Zealand, Singapore, India, United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. This book marks almost 20 years of international conferences on ageing and spirituality that commenced in January 2000. It opens the conversation to all who were part of this journey of ageing, including older people, practitioners in ageing and aged care, researchers, and those who reflect on the process of growing older. Chapters feature diverse perspectives, highlighting the need for inclusivity in conversations that surround ageing and recognize how development of cultures is influenced by the society where they emerge, and by minority groups within larger society. Chapters also note the occurrence of subcultures of ageing and aged care. The conference was held shortly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the chapters being written often during times of lockdown. Their content reflects the importance of spirituality in times of isolation and can show ways of reaching out to vulnerable older people, of various faiths and cultures, whatever their situations. Changing Cultures of Ageing and Spirituality will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies, Gerontology, Sociology, Psychology, Mental Health, and Nursing. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging.

A More Charitable Atheism

Author : James A. Metzger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761871659
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book A More Charitable Atheism written by James A. Metzger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology consists of fourteen topically arranged essays that explore a form of humanism characterized by epistemic humility, a progressive ethical orientation, as well as a respect for the positive features of religion. According to recent polls, more Americans find themselves uncomfortable maintaining traditional religious beliefs and moral commitments—a trend driven in large part by the Millennials, and one likely to continue with subsequent generations. As a professor who has regular interactions with students of this generation, the author has discovered that those who neither wish to affiliate with one particular religious tradition or community, as perhaps their parents and grandparents did, nor drop religion altogether fear that there are few if any truly attractive alternatives—alternatives that would help them find meaning, offer sound moral guidance, and navigate life’s most challenging times. This book in part aims to show that both meaning and resources for crafting a philosophically sound moral compass can be found outside the sacred canopy. These essays, however, are also the outcome of the author’s own journey from mainline Protestant Christianity to secular humanism. The primary catalyst for this transition was the onset of a serious autoimmune illness, which forced him to confront various issues in philosophy of religion, particularly the problem of suffering and evil. This autobiographical component is woven into several chapters with the intention of showing that in a postmodern milieu we can no longer attribute major worldview shifts to solitary, dispassionate rational inquiry. Although essays have been composed in such a way that each may stand alone, a feature of the book that allows readers to approach chapters in any order they choose, they nevertheless have been arranged into four sections that reflect the author’s personal journey. Major topics include: 1) Chronic Illness and the Death of God; 2) Epistemic Limitations and Respect for Persons; 3) A Humanist Approach to Reading the Bible and; 4) Advantages of Ethical Reasoning without God.

China’s Death Penalty

Author : Hong Lu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135914923
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book China’s Death Penalty written by Hong Lu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the death penalty within the changing socio-political context of China. The authors' treatment of China's death penalty is legal, historical, and comparative, focusing on its theory and the actual practice.

The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc, Second Edition Omnibus

Author : Nico F. Declercq
Publisher : Nico F. Declercq
ISBN 13 : 9083176940
Total Pages : 2090 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc, Second Edition Omnibus written by Nico F. Declercq and published by Nico F. Declercq. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 2090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc (2nd edition) is a comprehensive ancestral chronicle, meticulously tracing the Desclergues family lineage from the Greek era through the Villa Ducal de Montblanc in Tarragona to the present in Belgium. This omnibus edition compiles the entire acclaimed series, offering an exhaustive account of the Desclergues of Montblanc alongside the author's other ancestral lines, including de Patin, de Patin de Langemark, Lesage, Benoit, Den Dauw, 't Kint, Surmont, de Croock, Ardan, Lammens, Decaestecker, and de Silva of Uduwara in Sri Lanka. This scholarly work is enriched by a comprehensive DNA analysis, providing genetic depth to the historical narrative. Each family line is intricately contextualized within its historical setting, with facsimile images of archival records offering tangible evidence of the past. This beautifully illustrated book presents a visually engaging experience, enhancing historical insights and making it an invaluable resource for students, historians, and anyone passionate about genealogical studies. Nico Felicien Declercq, a full professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a distinguished scholar. With a Ph.D. from Ghent University and an MSc from the Catholic University of Leuven, his prolific academic career encompasses numerous published works. His passion for history and genealogy led him to meticulously document his ancestral lineage, culminating in this comprehensive work. Professor Declercq's interdisciplinary approach and dedication to rigorous research have earned him a reputation for excellence in the scientific community and among genealogical enthusiasts. He is also the author of several philosophical novels published under a pseudonym.