Counseling is a professional practice. As such, ethical standards have been delineated to describe the best practices of professionals and to ensure high quality of practice (Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2003). In countries where counseling has existed as a formal profession for some time, such as the United States (U.S.) and the United Kingdom, codes of ethics have been developed and periodically...

Information Systems Technology (IST) has an increasingly central role in today’s globalised information society. In this regard, it is imperative to recognise the impossibility of a technological life without ethics. As typical components for an ethics program, the authors use Codes of Ethics/Conduct/Practices (CE/CC/CP) as some professions (physicians, lawyers, etc.) have adopted them. The cod...

Article: Included among the many topics on which Aristotle writes in the Nicomachean Ethics is an account of incontinence or akrasia. Many controversies have arisen among interpreters of Aristotle on this issue, and a few of these disputes will be discussed in this paper. In the first part of this paper I shall indicate the usual way of reading Aristotle's account of incontinence, which I shall...

background: the increased recognition of ethical problems has contributed to the resurgence of ethics in relation to health care, and to the emergence of medical ethics as a new collaborative discipline in the world. the growing trends in biomedical technologies have been associated with increasing discussions about ethical aspects of the new knowledge in different societies. advances in geneti...

Since information and communication systems provide the underlying infrastructure of modern society, ethical behaviour by engineers, computer scientists and others working with and developing these systems is central to social stability. At the same time there is a range of increasing pressures and temptations to behave unethically or, at the least, to cut corners. Despite the very welcome deve...