Ethics
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The two-year challenge should encourage computer science professors in the United States to integrate
ethics
into their undergraduate curriculum, so that STEM students can gain a deeper understanding of how technology affects humanity.
For one thing, while the initial focus on
ethics
makes sense, similar explorations will be needed in a wide variety of disciplines such as economics, psychology, and many more of the so-called humanities.
As the philosopher Peter Singer has put it, the communications revolution has spawned a “global audience” that creates the basis for a “global ethics.”
What is needed is a conceptual framework to help businesses, governments, and individuals anticipate the radical technology-driven shifts – in business models, ethics, and social issues – on the horizon.
Indeed, it is when democracies abandon their
ethics
and fail to resist the authoritarian temptation that they become weaker.
In a 1958 textbook on medical
ethics
and law, another eminent doctor stated that it is “often clinically wise and in the patient’s interest to withhold certain matters.”
For example, we should ensure that values and
ethics
are at the heart of our individual and collective behaviors, including in capital and financial markets.
Portraying negative coverage as “fake news” has helped Trump to distract from scandals big and small: his family’s conflicts of interest, his dodgy business deals around the world, white supremacists among his senior staff, the rejection of
ethics
training for senior White House staff, and much else.
The same year, following criminal prosecutions for telephone hacking which led to the closure of Murdoch’s News of the World, then-Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Lord Justice Brian Leveson to head an inquiry into “the culture, practices and
ethics
of the press; their relationship with the police; the failure of the current system of regulation; the contacts made, and discussions had, between national newspapers and politicians; why previous warnings about press misconduct were not heeded; and the issue of cross-media ownership.”
The plumbing course includes taps and faucets, how to lay and cut piping, and, finally, “plumbing ethics.”
A cardinal principle of contemporary medical
ethics
is that patients have the right to make this type of decision, and that physicians are obligated to follow their wishes.
To disregard a patient’s preferences once he loses the ability to make decisions – as occurred when DeBakey’s wife reportedly stormed into a late-night hospital
ethics
committee meeting and demanded that the surgery take place – violates the hard-won respect for patients’ autonomy gained over the past 20 years.
On the other hand, it has put transplant
ethics
under severe strain.
Indeed, transplant
ethics
has been on a slippery slope almost since transplants began.
In such an environment, can public
ethics
be revived?
Europe can take the lead in writing
ethics
back into politics.
For example, Article 11 authorizes the state to “safeguard ethics, public morality, and public order, and foster a high level of education and of religious and patriotic values.”
Presenting himself as the last pillar of respect for international law, Putin offered
ethics
lessons to the United States – and specifically to President Barack Obama.
This was, I pointed out, difficult to reconcile with his assertion (concerning the
ethics
of destroying human embryos to create stem cells) that America’s president has “an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.”
Nonetheless, where firms or industries are particularly vulnerable to reputational issues, image and
ethics
could be a significant factor in more marginal business decisions (particularly with rising costs and tougher labor regulations already causing some firms to look elsewhere).
Quintarelli, Spiekermann, and their fellow champions of online
ethics
offer us a practical path to an Internet that is transparent, fair, democratic, and respectful of personal rights.
Bartholomew’s conference opened at the Acropolis, the very heart of ancient Athens, where 2,300 years ago Aristotle defined
ethics
and politics as the quest for wellbeing.
The absence of “no money down” mortgages might be more important than Confucian
ethics
in explaining China’s high savings rate.
We must explain to citizens Europe’s contribution to public ethics, and the democratic virtues of fair competition in economic, political, and social life.
The Iraqi crisis revealed deep differences between the US and Western Europe in matters of political culture, ethics, approaches to international politics, and the role of military force.
And it’s not just France’s official
ethics
committee that takes an anti-commodification stance.
They reject the view that
ethics
is optional, even though some influential professors, like René Frydman, who helped to create the first French IVF baby, have warned that France will fall behind in the science race unless it abandons its principles.
In the words of Emmanuel Hirsch, professor of medical
ethics
at the University of Paris-XI, “How long can our bioethical standards continue to resist the rise of other logics – particularly financial ones?”
Politics begins where contemporary economics ends – with
ethics
and the attempt to create a justly ordered society.
The Opiate of the BossesLONDON – Business
ethics
are again making headlines.
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