The essay examines Vladimir Putin’s civilisational discourse, which arose in earnest with the publication of his presidential campaign articles in 2012. It argues that what makes Putin’s rendering of Russia’s civilisational identity distinctive is its strongly emphasized Statism, understood as a belief in the primacy of the state. This suggests that while his endorsement of a distinct civilisat...

We present an analysis of discourse in case-centred learning. The analysis answers questions about how an abstract representation of a case is constructed through discourse, and about what cognitive products result from that construction. The analysis relies on a generic learning model that supports the coding and quantification of learning discourse. This analysis is demonstrated through its a...

Public-health regularly encounters serious ethical dilemmas, such as rationing scarce resources, influencing individuals to change their behaviour, and limiting freedom to diminish disease transmission. Yet unlike medical ethics, there is no agreed-upon framework for analysing these difficulties. We offer such a framework. It distinguishes three philosophical views, often invoked in public-heal...

Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than humans (fly, swim, play chess to name a few). Any ethics for or of robots is therefore a seductive mix of fiction and reality. The key issue for rational discourse is to provide a rigorous framework for reasoning about the ...

The article shows the importance of teaching ethics for development humanitarian education, as well reveals problematic issues contemporary ethical knowledge. authors consider issue influence digital technologies on remote communication people, analyzing in this regard network communications. It is shown that they correspond to morality, which people supposed be unlimited by formal institutions...

Purpose. The authors of this paper seek to comprehend, on the basis ethics discourse and communicative philosophy, dimensions human existence in times war. This involves solving following research tasks: show importance moral ethical norms structure emphasize need for their observance by a person realities war; find out what role responsibility co-responsibility is preserving space explore infl...

Calls for the expansion of ethics education in the business and accounting curricula have resulted in a variety of interventions including additional material on ethical cases, the code of conduct, and the development of new courses devoted to ethical development (Lampe, 1996). The issue of whether ethics should be taught has been addressed by many authors (see for example: McDonald and Donleav...