The Ethics of Accepting “Free” Gifts at Conventions

Accepting gifts in the workplace.

1-800-226-6113 to cover gifts from patients as well. There is no problem with taking the occasional plate of cookies or handknitted scarf from a grateful patient, but anything more elaborate or expensive should generally be subject to the same discrimination as gifts from employees. Occasionally, employees will innocently accept a gift that exceeds corporate gift limits because they are unfamil...

Accepting gifts from patients.

Appreciative patients often present their family physicians with gifts, an apparently simple act that can raise complex issues in the care relationship. There are no definitive regulations regarding accepting gifts from patients, and opposing views exist. Some believe physicians should never accept gifts because it might influence the standard of care or weaken the fiduciary relationship. Other...

determination of maximal singularity free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulator

due to the limiting workspace of parallel manipulator and regarding to finding the trajectory planning of singularity free at workspace is difficult, so finding a best solution that can develop a technique to determine the singularity-free zones in the workspace of parallel manipulators is highly important. in this thesis a simple and new technique are presented to determine the maximal singula...

Second Person Perspective, Virtues and the Gifts in Aquinas's Ethics

The second-personal perspective is an emerging development in philosophical and theological ethics. Significant here is the recent work of Andrew Pinsent. He proposes a reading of Aquinas’s treatment of the virtues, gifts, beatitudes and fruits of the Spirit in the light of the second person perspective and the interpersonal experience of Joint Attention. Pinsent draws on recent work in philoso...

Accepting Our Lives as Gift: Hospitality and Post-Critical Ethics