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This article is about the analysis of moral principles, including the principle of doing no harm, basically benefitiency and doing good, the principle of autonomy and the principle of justice. The fifth principle is a virtue. The author defends a thesis that explains that moral principles are an equally important element in the provision of social services, as qualification itself. With the help of...
The relationship between ethics and business is discussed permanently not only within the framework of foreign professional discourse, but also in Slovakia. The study deals with the extent of value and moral preferences expressed in national and international social strategies and to what extent they correspond with business, specifically with business in Slovakia. Their rare occurrence proves that...
Corporate social responsibility is a concept, which allows companies to show that they acknowledge their part in the state and functionality of a society. Based on the basic concept of corporate social responsibility, companies amend their traditional economic goals by adding goals that focus on environmental, social and ethical issues. In accordance with these they amend their visions and strategies...
Sustainable development is sometimes taken to mean stagnation and even civilizational regress. This is based on the philosophy that treats the Earth as an overcrowded lifeboat, which originated with P. Ehrlich. This approach is based on two theses: A general thesis, that the Earth has some limits to its carrying capacity, and an empirical thesis, that the Earth is about to reach the limits of carrying...
First, the text outlines the historical context of the evolution of the “social development” concept. It could be divided into four phases (the last one is still open). Second, we undertake an ontological analysis of this notion. It starts from the general notion of change and development, and ends with a tripartite typology of ideas labelled with the phrase “social development”. Third, we discuss...
Popular science genre is usually defined as a genre whose aim is to fulfill a significant cultural and social function of popularizing science, scientific knowledge and research. This paper discusses the popular science translation or rather cultural adaptation, regarded as a mediation between these two cultures. The qualitative and quantitative research findings concerning headlines and sub-headlines...
The paper presents the idea of home and place as a factor disturbing sustainable development in town space. The values that are connected with the fact of possessing own home in a healthy environment contributed to transferring settlements into suburban estates and decomposition of the urban town plan. These processes were discussed based on Katowice, where the main actors of changes in the environment...
A healthcare worker is one of the most typical representatives of the so-called assisting professions, whose common objective is any form of assistance to individuals dependent on the provision of care by others. In this post, the author points to the fact that healthcare workers are confronted with the aforementioned phenomena on a daily basis. It lays stress on respect for the patient’s dignity...
As the Report on Corporate Social Responsibility shows, there is no specified government institution, except Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Economy, dealing with CSR in Slovakia. CSR networks are operated by NGOs. The survey of UNDP and the University of Bratislava (2011) shows, that only 26% of business associations are active in promoting CSR. Most of them are large companies or multinational...
It is necessary to understand globalisation as a long-term process of the reciprocal convergence of the various interests of people on the planet at all the levels of social life. It is a process which is predominantly cultural, economic and political. On the other hand, there are also local interests of people that may be incompatible with globalisation. The process of “glocalisation” could represent...
This paper refers to the idea of socially responsible innovation - author tries to answer to the question: is there a real opportunity to link - despite a series of contradictions - the idea of innovation and corporate social responsibility in this way, so that companies can become creators and users of socially responsible innovation. In this article, author briefly defines corporate social responsibility...
This paper focuses on defining the main ethical issues with nanotechnology. Its aim is to outline possible ethical risks, which we systemize according to the individual phases of existence of nanoparticles. Examples may be the violation of privacy, violation of a person's autonomy, environmental pollution, and so on. The result is a elear schema of ąuestions, which should conseąuently be solved by...
The ethics of globalization as a part of applied ethics is focused on current problems of our present, setting the stage for ethical decision making and ethical conduct and acceptable solutions to moral problems in theoretical as well as practical field. It represents the application of ethics to the existing practical problems related to the environment of man, with the current global problems of...
The social role of ethical counselling has been increasing. It proves that future and development will be more and more confronted with ethical requirements and professional help in this sphere. Ethics becomes the expression of good reputation, social and employee´s expectations, positive changes, the overcoming of crisis situations. Ethical counselling can balance the deficit of morality in current...
One of the basic questions of the applied ethics is the question: “How to successfully and efficiently implement ethics into the life of society or, in other words, how to “shape” ourselves?” We focus the central role of the value of freedom in the context of contemplations on innovation of the society, innovation in which ethics should play a key role. The value of freedom, as outlined by Sartre,...
One of the most serious attempts to answer the question about the future shape of the socio-economic order after 1989 is the social teaching of John Paul II. According to the Pope, the fundament of every economical system should be the personal principium, according to which "the basic virtue of work is the human himself". In the light of this criterion John Paul II brings about the assessment...
The article presents the topic of kibbutz (Israeli socialist, agrarian community). The author presents its evolution from a small, highly collectivistic commune into a modern organization. The emphasis is put into a reform, which was implemented in order to save kibbutz from bankruptcy and flee of their member. The author presented her own research, conducted in a kibbutz in the Northern Israel. However,...
In this article, we will discuss the issue of current military conflicts and their reasoning based on declared values. We will assess these value preferences in terms of human rights, as well as of just wars’ criteria. We will examine up to what extent an ethical point is being brought up in order to justify and assess the conflicts. We will point out that the main causes are value confrontation of...
This article refers to ethics in legal profession, perceiving it as a profession of public trust. The author shows various legal branches which workers are commonly called lawyers and describes the principles contained in a few ethical codes: solicitor, bailiff, prosecutor and advocate. The article shows also issues related to ethical behavior in private life in order to be a good lawyer. The author...
The authors suggest to realize the specific research objectives in the area of sociology of public life, in the research of particular dimensions of Polish public sphere or in the functioning of various institutions of a civil society with the help of consistent triangulation research procedure. The presented examples of applications of mixed methodology concemed triangulation approach to the methods,...
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