A virtue centred approach to ethics has been criticized for being vague owing to the nature of its central concept, the paradigm person. From the perspective of the practitioner the most damaging charge is that virtue ethics fails to be action guiding and, in addition to this, it does not offer any means of act appraisal. These criticisms leave virtue ethics in a weak position vis-à-vis traditi...

This article presents a summary of existing codes of media ethics and analyzes their impact on mass media practices. It then attempts to develop an Islamic perspective of mass media ethics by focusing on the moral guidelines provided by Quran and the tradition of Prophet Muhammad (the Sunnah). The paper also examines the issues, problems, and challenges in operationalizing these guidelines into...

Ethics has am'ved in the business school curriculum. But what about the cumculum offinance?Can ethics be integratedin anymeaningful wayinto the theory and pedagogy of finance? Given the ever-broader array of topics in finance, should ethics be included at the inevitable expense ofsomething else? Are finance instructors qualified to teach ethics any more than ethicists are qualified to teach fin...

Society, even outside of the field of science and medicine, is faced with ethical dilemmas every day in which people are forced to take a stance and make difficult decisions. However, the question becomes where do these decisions come from? What are ethics? And is there bias involved in the drawing of these ethical conclusions? Philosophers have been pondering these questions for centuries and ...

The modern world has seen an increase in interest in the areas related to the ethics of the sovereign good. A number of studies have focused on this subject matter and several academicians have exposed a number of ethical and philosophical dilemmas related to the concept of ethics in public administration. Despite the increasing number of studies that have focused on the importance of administr...

Objectives: To characterise UK undergraduate medical ethics curricula and to identify opportunities and threats to teaching and learning. Design: Postal questionnaire survey of UK medical schools enquiring about teaching and assessment, including future perspectives. Participants: The lead for teaching and learning at each medical school was invited to complete a questionnaire. Results: Complet...

Recent incidents of unethical behaviors reported in the media have led scholars to initiate a debate on the subject of ethics. In particular, professional and personal ethics appear to be relevant issues to explore, as literature suggests that they impact behavior. In higher education, a substantial increase in the use of online learning systems (OLSs) for the delivery of higher educational cou...

Purpose: To provide an introduction to concepts and resources that will be useful to library professionals learning about information ethics. Methodology: This paper argues for the importance of information ethics to 21 century library professionals. It describes what various authors have said about how information ethics can be applied to the ethical dilemmas faced by library professionals. Fi...

Ethics is important in the IS field, as illustrated for example by the direct effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the work of IS professionals. There is a substantial literature on ethical issues surrounding computing/IT in the contemporary world, but much of this work is not published nor widely cited in the mainstream IS literature. The purpose of this paper is to offer one contribution to an...

BACKGROUND Informing lay citizens about complex health-related issues and their related ethical, legal, and social aspects (ELSA) is one important component of democratic health care/research governance. Public information activities may be especially valuable when they are used in multi-staged processes that also include elements of information and deliberation. OBJECTIVES This paper present...