Essays about: "Moral Responsibilities"

Showing result 16 - 18 of 18 essays containing the words Moral Responsibilities.

  1. 16. Stability in Syria: Save Lives or Protect the Sovereignty of the State

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Sina Abolghasem Rasouli; [2011]
    Keywords : Syria; Jus ad bellum; legitimate authority; humanitarian military intervention; just cause; right intention;

    Abstract : One of the chief international security issues of today is humanitarian militaryintervention. In light of this, some questions have been raised about when and howoutsiders should get involved or if they are morally right at all to engage in humanitariancrises. READ MORE

  2. 17. Who answers the call? Institutional moral agency and global justice

    University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etik; Linköpings universitet

    Author : Michael Klapdor; [2010]
    Keywords : Ethics; Applied Ethics; Institutions; Moral Agency; Global Justice;

    Abstract : This thesis asks who is able to answer the call to action that the problems of global injustice pose. It focuses on the concept of institutions such as states, intergovernmental organisations, corporations and non-governmental organisations as moral agents and whether such institutions can be said to be morally responsible for creating or responding to global injustice. READ MORE

  3. 18. Circuits of Civilization: Progressive Democratic Character Education in the Process of Globalization

    University essay from Centrum för tillämpad etik

    Author : Olesya Vallin; [2007]
    Keywords : Dewey; democracy; progressive education; character education; civilization; moral evolution; values;

    Abstract : This thesis interprets John Dewey’s theory of the moral life in the global context in order to shed a light on major ethical challenges of the process of globalization. Dewey’s perspective provides an explanation of (1) formation of the individual commitments to particular sets of values,(2) justification of the responsibilities to the distanced peoples as opposed to the responsibilities to the nearest and dearest peoples and (3)the meaning of democratic social arrangements on the global scale. READ MORE