Search results for " responsibility"

Book Review: Moral Responsibility and Alternative Possibilities

2004

De Günther Anders al transhumanismo: la obsolescencia del ser humano y la mejora moral

2020

This paper critically compares the philosophy of Gunther Anders and the contemporary transhumanists, like Julian Savulescu, Ingmar Persson, or Thomas Douglas. The Andersian concepts of moral blindness, promethean gap, and promethean shame will be discussed in order to understand human beings’ outdatedness; parallel to this, we will also expose the transhumanist analysis on the unfitness of human beings in evolutive and cognitive terms. We will show that much of the transhumanist analysis is a reformulation of the Andersian thesis, now under scientific terminology. Finally, we will approach the transhumanist proposal of moral enhancement, explaining and confronting some critics raised on the…

A Paradox in Compatibilist Accounts of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

1995

In this paper, it is argued that Frankfurt¿s sophisticated, ¿hierarchical¿ version of compatibilism faces the following paradox: a person with a highly disintegrated and incoherent value system will enjoy more freedom of the will than a person whose value system is more integrated and coherent. The reason is that the more (contrary) values a person embraces, the more likely will it be that s/he identifies with his or her first-order desires. The paradox, however, might also be extended to other versions of compatibilism.// En este artículo sostenemos que la versión refinada, ¿jerárquica¿ del compatibilismo, defendida por Harry Frankfurt se enfrenta a la siguiente paradoja: una persona con u…

The working day in medicine: lessons from the air.

2003

This article discusses whether it would be wrong to explain a mistake involving medical responsibility on the basis of an opinion that the professional was not in the optimum physical or mental state at the moment the mistake took place.

Superheroes, Social Responsibility, and the Metaphor of Gods in Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s Kingdom Come

2015

Some decades ago, Umberto Eco, in » The Myth of Superman, « pointed out the paradoxical nature of the all-powerful superhero. » Superman, « Eco notes, » is practically omnipotent; « consequently » one could expect the most bewildering political, economic, and technological upheavals in the world « from Superman – or any other › practically ‹ omnipotent superhero. But no such transformations occur in the narratives.

La dérive pédagogique parallèle. Un fil éducatif invisible entre Porto et Paris à travers des récits personnels

2019

Partimos de la deriva como práctica artística contemporánea, con reconocidos antecedentes históricos. El objetivo principal es experimentar las potencialidades pedagógicas de la observación de entornos urbanos de forma colaborativa y mediada por las TIC a través de la deriva, como artistas/investigadores/docentes encargados de la formación del profesorado, para poder introducir este tipo de iniciativas en el entorno educativo. La A/R/Tografía como método de Investigación Basada en las Artes facilita usar la deriva simultáneamente como práctica artística, proceso investigador y experiencia de aprendizaje docente. Los resultados se exponen a través de narrativas personales que muestran reflex…

Escenarios para una Empresa Socialmente Responsable en e Posconflicto Colombiano (Scenarios for a Socially Responsible Company in the Colombian Post-…

2015

Spanish Abstract: En 2012 el Gobierno colombiano y las FARC, comenzaron unos dialogos para ponerle fin a la confrontacion armada de mas de 50 anos mediante la firma del “Acuerdo para la terminacion del conflicto y la construccion de una paz estable y duradera”. ?Como sera el escenario del postconflicto para los alzados en armas y toda aquella masa de ciudadanos y campesinos que aun no tienen unas condiciones dignas de vida? Este trabajo fundamentado en la teoria de la accion comunicativa, en la prospectiva, en la teoria del derecho positivo y en las bases conceptuales de una responsabilidad social de las organizaciones acorde con la justicia social, examina diversas posibilidades de una vid…

Poverty and rights. Moving beyond the rhetoric of misfortune and blame to lay the foundations for shared social responsibility

2011

ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF EXERCISING ETHICAL INFLUENCE IN ORGANIZATION

2014

Today’s rapidly changing economic and social environment requires reconsideration of leadership issues, a special attention paying to ethical issues that are an integral part of socially responsible business. There are numerous studies on the subject matter of ethical leadership but until now the matter of developing business students’ ethical leadership competences has been hardly touched. This is one of the gaps to be filled if we want to speak about the Europe of knowledge at all. The purpose of the present study is twofold: to summarize the previous research in the field of ethical leadership and to research Latvian business students’ perception of ethical leadership. Hence the tasks of…

Pride or Embarrassment? Employees’ Emotions and Corporate Social Responsibility

2013

This study explores how the employees of a financial firm use emotional arguments to construct different views of their employer's corporate social responsibility (CSR). It is theoretically based on the recent literature regarding employee perspectives of CSR, and especially on the role of emotions in CSR. Furthermore, the study utilizes rhetorical theory as a framework for data analysis. A qualitative study, based on face-to-face interviews, was conducted among 27 employees in a Finnish financial firm. The study identifies six categories of emotional arguments the employees used to construct views of where their employing organization's CSR is derived from. These categories relate positive…