National Spirit and Spiritual Home -- Connotation, characteristics and functions of national spirit -- Chinese national spirit: generation, development and modern transformation Approaches to the Challenges and Development Confronting the Chinese -- National Philosophy in Modern Times -- Integration of the Patriotism and the Homeland of Mankind.
Preface -- PART I. Farm Bill Basics -- What is the Farm Bill?- Why Does the Farm Bill Matter?- Whom Does the Farm Bill Benefit?- How Does the Farm Bill Work?- PART II. The History of Food Policy -- Origins of the Farm BillChapter 6. The Changing Face of Agriculture -- The Changing Face of Hunger -- The Conservation Era -- PART III. Key Policy Issues -- Crop Subsidies -- Nutrition, SNAP, and Hea…
Activist Ethics in Business -- Ethical and Democratic Evolution -- Activist Business Ethics in Christianity -- Activist Business Ethics in Judaism -- Activist Business Ethics in Other Religions -- Activist Business Ethics in Philosophy -- Psychological and Psychoanalytical Aspects -- International Aspects -- The Personification of Stakeholders -- The Predominance of Values and Ethics for CEOs -…
Cultural Rationality and Moral Principles -- Morality and Culture: Are Ethics Culture-Dependent? -- Neither Golden Nugget nor Frankenstein. The need to Re-embed Food Biotechnologies in Sociocultural Contexts -- Beyond GM Foods: Genomics, Biotechnology and Global Health Equity -- Patents on Biomaterial — A New Colonialism or a Means for Technology Transfer and Benefit-Sharing? -- From the Corp…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Precarity -- Chapter 3: Propinquity -- Chapter 4: Conflict -- Chapter 5: Serendipity -- Chapter 6: Fear -- Chapter 7: The Urban Commons.Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a ‘world as design’ over the natural world. For more than half of the global population, this environment is also thoroughly urban. But what does a global urban…
This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arr…
Chapter 1: Logics for Normative Supervenience (Antonino Rotolo) -- Chapter 2: Propositional and Doxastic Justification: Their Relationship and a Questionable Supervenience Claim (Giorgio Volpe) -- Chapter 3: Moral Properties: Some Epistemological, Ontological, and Normative Dimensions (Robert Audi) -- Chapter 4: Reasons and Supervenience (Daniel Laurier) -- Chapter 5: The Dubious Moral Superve…
Chapter 1-Introduction to Ethics and Technology -- Chapter 2-Technological Competence -- Chapter 3-Outsourcing -- Chapter 4-Receipt of Privileged Information -- Chapter 5– What Is Technology? -- Chapter 6-How Did We Get Here? -- Chapter 12–Technology Assisted Review -- Chapter 14-Effective Communication -- Chapter 17–Effective Supervision -- Chapter 18–Using Technology for Improved Bill…
Introduction -- Setting the Theoretical Framework and Methodology -- Subjective Rational Compliance Calculation and Deterrence: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Situational Compliance Legitimacy: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- Capacity and Pesticide Compliance: Theory and Empirical Evidence -- The Many Roads to Compliance: Explaining the Complexity of Patterns Contributing to Pesticide Compli…
Introduction -- On the conventional nature of money -- The debate about the ethics of money pursuit -- Building stones for a new monetary world order -- Some further institutional and other practical aspects of the organization of the new monetary world order -- Concluding reflections.This book presents a thorough and critical evaluation of the monetary and financial system prevalent in Western…