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... into the easy assumption that the morality of markets is of a lower order than the morality of basic rights, and that the issues ofthe relationship between rights and markets is a matter of determining ... 41 The content of that right gives the content ofthe related duty: not to block us Andthe content ofthe right also identifies the duty-ower: all other agents The duty-ower can be read off the ... however, ofthe danger of allowing organisations as well as individuals to occupy the high moral ground and use this to enforce their own, often distorted, view ofthe world The object of this...
... Utilitarian and Rights-based approaches to animal Moral Status 28 CHAPTER 3: THE LAND ETHIC 3.1 The holistic view ofthe land ethic 3.2 Limitation ofthe land ethic 33 39 CHAPTER 4: THEMORAL STANDING OF ... conscience, andthe problem we face is the extension ofthe social conscience from people to land.”57 It follows that the continuance ofthe integrity, stability and beauty ofthe land may be ... from it On the other hand, the land ethic is holistic in the sense that it is the community comprised of humans, animals, plants, land, rivers and ecosystems that have moral standing and not individuals...
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... “synthetic” unity ofthe multiplicity of experience On the basis of this, Kant drew his most basic conclusion: a condition of both the synthetic unity ofthe multiplicity of representations (and ... subject, and on the other hand the multiplicity ofthe representations which it has The same complex thinking subject – as the same subject of different experiences – is correlated therefore to the ... make There are two ways, Kant suggested, that we can look at judgments: on the one hand, we can regard the form ofthe judgment (how the subject is related to the predicate); and, on the other hand,...
... of a natural order governed by necessary causal laws and fitting the a priori laws of mathematics and geometry; in the case of action, it produces a moral order, a “kingdom of ends.” Both of these ... in themoral good by themoral law itself; and, in the same way, the apprehension ofthe beautiful in reflective judgment prompts one to take an interest in it Moreover, themoralandthe aesthetic ... On the other hand, although we might subjectively consider all of nature as ordered in terms of purposes – as when we offhandedly say that such and such (III): Aesthetic taste, teleology, and the...
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... creation of products and services and then selling and delivering them to the marketplace A talented CEO can rally the troops and march on to victory in the marketplace But the success of a CEO ... drives the United States more than other countries The second is the uniquely American cult ofthe deified CEO and his entourage, making them worthy of vast sums of money to attract and retain them ... All the while 10 to 15 percent or more ofthe increase in value ofthe entire stock market is being “transferred” from the pockets of shareholders into the pockets of employees and mostly into the...
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... Germany, Norway, andthe UK They find significant differences in the valuation power of accounting book value and earnings across the three countries, and they interpret some ofthe differences ... reduce the explanatory power of both book value and earnings Furthermore, violations ofthe CSR may either increase or decrease the explanatory power of book value depending on whether the violation ... Indonesia and Malaysia Sensitivity to the Timing of Price We examined the sensitivity of our results to the date at which the stock price is taken At the end ofthe fiscal year, information in the...