... metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics Meta -ethics explores the origins of our ethical standards Normative ethics seeks to provide standards that can govern right and wrong behavior ... ENGINEERING ETHICS 15 Normative ethics Virtue theories Duty theories Consequentialist theories FIGURE 2.2: Theories of normative ethics obligatory, irrespective of the consequences that might follow ... health and welfare of the public and protect the environment in performance of their professional duties There is neither elaboration 20 ENGINEERING ETHICS: PEACE, JUSTICE, ANDTHE EARTH on the...
... metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics Meta -ethics explores the origins of our ethical standards Normative ethics seeks to provide standards that can govern right and wrong behavior ... ENGINEERING ETHICS 15 Normative ethics Virtue theories Duty theories Consequentialist theories FIGURE 2.2: Theories of normative ethics obligatory, irrespective of the consequences that might follow ... health and welfare of the public and protect the environment in performance of their professional duties There is neither elaboration 20 ENGINEERING ETHICS: PEACE, JUSTICE, ANDTHE EARTH on the...
... interventions CAM focuses more on the patient and less on the therapy, giving patients the perception that they are more in control of their own health and that they can help themselves There is something ... Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethics, the Patient, andthe Physician Lois Snyder, JD Editor Lois Snyder, JD is director of the Center for Ethicsand Professionalism at the American College ... of qi in order to offset the imbalance of fire and water, or of hot and cold, to balance these opposing forces, the Yin and Yang, in order to restore or maintain health The various TCM techniques...
... reserves is more likely to run the other way: the accumulation may reflect the wish to resist the appreciation of the currency, when the authorities face strong foreign demand for domestic currency ... equilibrium state and ignores the role of the credit market Therefore, it only describes the determination of the natural rate This widespread representation of the theory encourages the failure to ... contributed to the credit boom andthe transmission of the turmoil, and diverts attention away from the monetary and financial factors that sowed the seeds of the crisis We have argued that the fundamental...
... prices on the day of andthe day before the event in basis points for interest rates and log percentages for exchange rates andcommodity prices "P -values" in parentheses denote the proportion ... than originally perceived or that heightens risk concerns may lead investors to increase their demand for Treasuries, lowering their yields These concerns also could reduce investor demand for other ... energy sector, oil (either crude or Brent) accounts for a third of the GSCI energy index’s composition Figure shows the behavior of the GSCI indices for energy (which tracks the movement in the overall...
... the sort of words andthe sort of thoughts they are used to—so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age the sort of words andthe sort ... tyranny, andthe only security for they value Most Oriental communities live on land which in theory is the property of a despotic sovereign, and neither they nor their families could have the elements ... of any theory as to the nature of matter, orthe nature of mind They are as true upon the theory that mind acts on matter—though separate and altogether different from it—as upon the theory of...
... enough to secure for Gregory a permanent and prominent place in the history of medical ethicsand therefore the history of bioethics To these, I will show in this book, Gregory added the accomplishment ... divergence of interest in the form of competition and therefore sundered obligation of the superior (the factory or colliery owner) andthe inferior (the wage earner) The risk of exploitation ... will be forthcoming as scholars in both the history of medicine and bioethics turn their attention to the creation of a history for a field, bioethics The need for such work is urgent: bioethics...
... overwhelm other interests and other ways of life Together with the increasing importance of social ethics, andthe application of concepts of rights and discrimination to more and more areas of ... eliminate these distinctions There is another way to deal with them The basic structure can be arranged so that these contingencies work for the good of the least fortunate Thus we are led to the difference ... 53) There is obviously a difference between effort andthe other bases of desert “People deserve to get good grades or win prizes if they have worked hard in the past; they deserve the grades and...
... about in the space inclosed by them The sail was lowered andthe vessel brought to the bank The anchors were taken ashore and she was soon solidly moored Then the crew leapt on to the land and ascended ... straight, and were wielded with both hands They wore their hair long and hanging down their shoulders, and for the most part shaved their cheeks and chins, but wore their moustaches very long They ... hesitate, and Algar giving the word, the Saxons took the offensive, andthe line pressed forward step by step The archers poured their arrows in a storm among the Danish ranks These fell back before the...
... carefully that they are not wormy, then cleanse them with a piece of flannel from sand or grit, then peel them and put them in the sun or a cool oven to dry; they require long, slow drying, and must ... flour and roll them as thick as your finger, tapering at each end; lay them on the board, fasten the three together at one end, and then lay one over the other in a plait, fasten the other end, and ... walnut and roll them round Either put them on a tin close together, to be broken apart, or an inch or two from each other, in which case work in a little more flour, and cut a cleft on the top, and...
... one end of the Andes to the other, depending altogether on the good people he meets." At Bodegas travelers take to mules or horses for the mountains, hiring one set for Guaranda and another at that ... Ecuador solely for culinary purposes, not for warmth It is made at no particular spot on the mud floor, and there is no particular orifice for the exit of the smoke save the chinks in the wall There ... Herndon and Gibbon descended the one the Peruvian andthe other the Bolivian waters the affluents of the Amazon, beginning their voyage where the streams were mere channels for canoes, and finishing...
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... the less heavily theoretical notion of the social imagination is a more straightforward option ( The idea of the social imaginary originated in the work of Cornelius Castoriadis See, e.g., World ... that there has been a historical preoccupation with the second-order One way or another, given the traditional background, this book is neither straightforwardly a work of ethics nor straightforwardly ... whether the attribute is derogatory or complimentary or indifferent, good or bad or neutral.³ Some stereotypes may resist any definitive categorization because they can carry either a positive or...
... avoid the sadistic deed than to perform it Rationality andthe Good V Obligation If the good andthe bad are sources of reasons for action, and if the pursuit of the former andthe avoidance of the ... this question For him, one good is more “final” than another if we seek the latter for the sake of the former, andthe good—that which makes life “choiceworthy”—is not sought for the sake of anything ... articles in normative ethical theory Hugh J McCann is professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University He is the author of The Works of Agency(1998) and of numerous papers in action theory, the philosophy...
... good and bad action that God commands the one and forbids the other; given the nature of good and bad, andthe nature of God, something’s being good or bad implies that God commands or forbids ... Reason The Moral Sense and Motivation: Hutcheson and Burnet Balguy on Reasons and Motives Moral Judgment v Moral Sense Morality as an End How is the Moral Sense Corrigible? Balguy, Hutcheson, and ... Internalism Moral Judgments and Moral Error The Character of Moral Facts The Object in Itself’ Conceivability and Possibility The Object Itself’ and Motivation Anti-realism: Hume and Hutcheson Is and...
... shortcuts in intermarket analysis The relationship of the dollar to bonds and stocks makes more sense, and holds up much better, when factored through thecommodity markets In other words, there ... with the dollar The path to take is from the dollar to thecommodity markets, then from thecommodity markets to the bond market, and finally from the bond market to the stock market THE DOLLAR MOVES ... possible bottom in the CRB Index The relationship between the dollar andthe gold market is very important in forecasting the trend of the general commodity price level, and using a foreign currency...
... the spring of 1989, which was the beginning of the end for the bull run in the dollar THE DOLLAR VERSUS THE STOCK MARKET It stands to reason since both the dollar andthe stock market are influenced ... groups are the strongest andthe weakest at any given time Some of these futures groups have more impact on the CRB Index than others and merit special attention The precious metals andthe energy ... TOGETHER DURING AUGUST AND OCTOBER, THEY BOTTOMED TOGETHER DURING THE FOURTH QUARTER OF THAT YEAR Stocks versus the Dollar 1987 THE DOLLAR VERSUS THE STOCK MARKET 89 FIGURE 6.13 THE DOLLAR AND...
... affected by their related commodity markets, and vice versa Sometimes the stock group in question will lead thecommodity market, and sometimes thecommodity will lead the stock group A thorough technical ... interest-sensitive sector before it hit the general market The bond market therefore became a leading indicator for the interest-sensitive stocks which, in turn, became a leading indicator for the stock market ... NEGATIVE CORRELATION WITH THE CRB INDEX FROM 1985 TO 1990 THE 1987 TOP IN THE S&Ls MIRRORED A SIMILAR BOTTOM IN THE CRB INDEX THE MID-1988 PEAK IN THE CRB HELPED LAUNCH THE S&L RALLY THE PEAK IN THE...
... affected by their related commodity markets, and vice versa Sometimes the stock group in question will lead thecommodity market, and sometimes thecommodity will lead the stock group A thorough technical ... interest-sensitive sector before it hit the general market The bond market therefore became a leading indicator for the interest-sensitive stocks which, in turn, became a leading indicator for the stock market ... NEGATIVE CORRELATION WITH THE CRB INDEX FROM 1985 TO 1990 THE 1987 TOP IN THE S&Ls MIRRORED A SIMILAR BOTTOM IN THE CRB INDEX THE MID-1988 PEAK IN THE CRB HELPED LAUNCH THE S&L RALLY THE PEAK IN THE...
... the numerator Assuming a constant denominator, if thecommodity in the numerator has a higher value than another commodity, the resulting quotient will also be higher Therefore, a more objective ... usually the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index A ratio is calculated by dividing the stock group orthe individual stock by the S&P 500 index If the relative-strength (RS) line is rising, the other ... later the broader stock market followed bonds andthe utilities lower The key to understanding the relationship between the Dow Utilities andthe Dow Industrials lies in the recognition of the...