The Attack of the Plants (The Magic School Bus Rides Again #5)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Applied Ethics, Casuistry, Business Ethics, Humanitarianism, Just War, Compliance and Ethics Program, Applied Aesthetics, Gross National Happiness, Happiness Economics, Ethics of Eating Meat, Doctrine of Mental Reservation, Climate Ethics, Social Responsibility, Nishkam Karma, Just Price, Work Ethic, Argument From Marginal Cases, Applied Ontology, Military Medical Ethics, Bridge Ethics, Humanitarian Engineering, Jus Post Bellum, Situated Ethics, Humanitarian-Political, Rule of Rescue. Excerpt: In its most general form, humanitarianism is an ethic of kindness, benevolence and sympathy extended universally and impartially to all human beings. Humanitarianism has been an evolving concept historically but universality is a common element in its evolution. No distinction is to be made in the face of human suffering or abuse on grounds of gender, tribal, caste, religious or national divisions. The universality of Humanitarianism is exemplified in one of the first statements of the ethic, the New Testament parable of the Good Samaritan. The answer to the lawyer's question'And who is my neighbour?', is that 'your neighbour' is anyone in need whom you can help. Humanitarianism is an ethic of active compassion which became expressed in philanthropy and social welfare. From an exclusive concern with charity, humanitarian action was led increasingly to vindication of the respect owed to the individual human being. This idea, originating in stoic natural law, became, in its Christian and secular manifestations, an important influence in European thought. Not immediately, but eventually, denial of the spiritual equality inhering in every human being became the touchstone of 'wrongness' in humanitarian action. The Enlightenment advanced the idea that human... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=175081