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[Book Review] Matters Of Life And Death, By John B. Cobb, Jr., Russell E. Smith

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review] Food For The Journey, Theological Foundations Of The Catholic Health Care Ministry, By Juliana Casey, Stan Mader

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review] Moral Absolutes, Tradition, Revision, And Truth, By John Finnis, John Hartley

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Arguing For Economic Equality, John Baker

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - Febuary 10, 1992.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1992, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Doing Ethics! Benevolence
• Comments on Promise Keeping
• First Comment by Rev. John L. Brown
• Second Comment by Jane Sipe
• News & Notes

[Book Review] Human Life In The Balance, By David C Thomasma, Russell E. Smith

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review] The Medical Applications Of Natural Family Planning, By Thomas W. Hilgers, M.D., Pope Paul Vi Institute For The Study Of Human Reproduction, John J. Brennan

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

[Book Review] Prenatal Diagnosis: Confronting The Ethical Issues, By Angeta Sutton, Celia Wolf-Devine

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

National Health Insurance Proposals: An Ethical Perspective, Alan O. Kogan

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, January 31, 1992.

'Wait — Something’S Missing!': The Status Of Ethics In Basic Public Speaking Texts, Jon A. Hess

Communication Faculty Publications

The basic course is important to the welfare of the speech communication discipline. According to Seiler and McGukin (1989), the basic course is the mainstay of the discipline. Gibson, Hanna, and Leichty (1990) surveyed 423 institutions of higher education nationwide and found that at 92% of the schools’ enrollment in the basic course was increasing or holding steady (this is up from the figure of 88% reported in 1985). In a survey of college graduates, Pearson, Nelson, and Sorenson (1981) found that 93% believed that the basic speech course should be required for all students. Because of its popularity and …

Lying: A Failure Of Autonomy And Self-Respect, Jane Zembaty

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - March 19, 1992.

[Book Review] Manual Of Guidelines On Clinical-Ethical Issues Catholic Health Association Of The United States, S1. Louis, Mo., Edited By Diana Bader, O. P. Ph.D., Eugene F. Diamond

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Three Comments On Ethics, Saunders Maclane

Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal

No abstract provided.

Being A Teacher, Of Lawyers: Discerning The Theory Of My Practice, Howard Lesnick

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Spring 1992, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Director's Corner: "Ethics and the Environment" by Robert P. Lawry
• Notice Lecture: Mending the Earth: The Planet in Law & Morals
• "Doing Ethics!" Promise Keeping
• Comments on "Competing For a Job"
• New & Notes

The Imperative To Restore Nature: Some Philosophical Questions, Lisa Newton

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

The purpose of WMU's Center for the Study of Ethics is to encourage and support research, teaching, and service to the university and community in areas of applied and professional ethics. These areas include, but are not restricted to: business, education, engineering, government, health and human services, law, media, medicine, science, and technology.

Positive And Negative Liberty, Steven J. Heyman

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Review Of Kant's System Of Rights, Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This article reviews the book "Kant's System of Rights," by Leslie A. Mulholland.

Review Of Kenneth Baynes, The Normative Grounds Of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls, And Habermas (1992), Harry Van Der Linden

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Baynes's two main objectives are to show that Kant, Rawls, and Habermas share the view that "the idea of an agreement among free and equal persons [i. e., autonomous persons] ... constitutes the normative ground of social criticism" (p. 8), and that this "constructivist" view is more adequately developed and defended with each successive theorist. The study, however, goes beyond these aims and can often fruitfully be read as a comparative study of Rawls and Habermas.

Aristotle And Sophocles On The Elements Of Moral Virtue, Lloyd W. J. Aultman-Moore

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Myth Of Retributive Justice, Brian Slattery

Articles & Book Chapters

In fairy tales, villains usually come to a bad end, snared in a trap of their own making, or visited with a disaster nicely suited to their particular villainy. Read a story of this kind to children and you will be struck by the profound satisfaction with which this predictable of events is greeted. Yet, if children cheer when the villain is done in, they are just as satisfied when the hero manages to get the villain by the throat but takes pity and spares him. These tales of retribution and mercy, even reduced to their barest bones, seem to …

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Archives Records

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Balyeat, Douglas. Expectations Gap: Where Were the Auditors?
• Brown, Kaye. Larry McMurtry: Saddle Up or Leave the Old West Behind
• Fridy, Geraldine. Stephen Crane's Maggie. Another Example of Patriarchal Misogyny?
• Hazelwood, Shirley and Kay Redfern. Effectiveness of Psychosocial rehabilitation Programs: Do They Make a Difference in the Re-hospitalization of the Mentally Ill?
• Johnson, Sean. Effects of Time-out as a Procedure to Decrease Maladaptive Behavior
• Leibering, Elisa, Michelle Nye and LauraLee Wilson. Euthanasia: Legal, …

State Ethical Codes And Federal Practice: Emerging Conflicts And Suggestions For Reform, Stephen B. Burbank

All Faculty Scholarship

The standards for resolving putative conflicts between federal laws are not always clear, and neither for that matter is the standard for determining what constitutes a federal law capable of superseding effect. The technique of setting federal norms of professional conduct on a decentralized basis by borrowing or incorporating state norms is increasingly troublesome to the extent that the borrowed state norms are disuniform and that they are being put to multiple remedial purposes. Federal legislation preempting state law of professional conduct is conceivable but hardly likely, particularly as the norms are pressed into duty for purposes other than professional …

Asceticism/Askēsis: Foucault's Thinking Historical Subjectivity, Ladelle Mcwhorter

Philosophy Faculty Publications

In the Introduction to The Use of Pleasure Foucault calls his work an askēsis, "an exercise of oneself in the activity of thought." The "living substance of philosophy," Foucault writes, is the essay, "which should be understood as the assay or test by which, in the game of truth, one undergoes changes, and not as the simplistic appropriation of others for the purpose of communication." Foucault's work, then, does not simply report to us his conclusions or theories. Foucault is not primarily interested in imparting information. What he offers instead is a kind of exercise book.

Hobbes, Formalism, And Corrective Justice, Anita L. Allen, Maria H. Morales

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Macintyre's Nietzsche: A Critique, R. Kevin Hill

Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

In Alastair MacIntyre's "After Virtue", Nietzsche is presented as (1)an emotivist, (2) the culmination of the liberal tradition, and (3) fundamentally opposed to Aristotle. All three claims are criticized, thus casting doubt not only on MacIntyre's interpretation of Nietzsche, but also on his larger account of the history of Western ethical theory and practice, as well as on his proposal that we return to the tradition which Nietzsche has called into question.

Repairing The Three-Legged Stool Of Ethics: A Conversation With Rushworth Kidder, Rushworth Kidder

Maine Policy Review

As founder and president of the two-year-old Institute for Global Ethics (in Camden, Maine), Rushworth Kidder concerns himself not only with chronicling the moral dissonance that characterizes contemporary American society, but also with identifying and trying approaches that address this discord. He is someone who is troubled by what is, but is full of hope for what can be. Earlier this year, Maine Policy Review visited Kidder and queried him about his work and the state of the nation's political values and institutions. This article is an edited version of his comments.

The Moral Foundations Of Tort Law, Stephen R. Perry

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Foreword, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

What is the conservative committed to? According to some, the answer is quite simply nothing. Certainly, the argument goes, they are not committed to individual freedom: they defend only order, morality, religion and virtue - all 'traditionally' conceived. So it seemed to many classical liberals, libertarians and 'Old Whigs' in the early 1960s when they denounced traditionalists in the name of individual liberty, private property and reason. And so it also seems to many classical liberals and libertarians today.

Foreword, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Hayek's essay 'Why I am not a Concervative' first appeared in 1960 as the final chapter of his treatise, The Constitution of Liberty. Strictly speaking, it was not really a concluding chapter; it was presented as a 'postscript' to the main text-a text whose concern was to articulate and elaborate upon the fundamental principles of classical liberalism. In this postscript Hayek attempted a task which the main treatise did not take up: to explain how the principles of classical liberalism set it apart from the conservatism with which it seemed to have so much in common.