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Managing and teaching ethics in higher education : policy, skills and resources : Globethics.net International Conference Report 2018
Full text linkFollowing the development of Globethics.net's new Strategy, Vision and Mission, the Globethics.net International Conference 2018 came as an honest contribution to the urgent search for solutions to a world noticeably and without doubt in disarray, as problems continue to mount. 'How can we translate and make ethics practically present and relevant in the classroom and lives of students, teachers and professionals who emerge from higher education institutions?' More than 100 teachers, policy makers, research fellows, vice-chancellors, ethics and scientific institutions, consultants, NGOs, IGOs and other stakeholders gathered from all over the world during three days to answer this question. The conference took place on 4–6 June 2018 at the Château de Bossey in the county of Vaud, Switzerland.
This book is structured into two parts: the first is composed of discussions and ethical puzzles meant to bring breakthrough insights from the Globethics.net International Conference on ethics in higher education; the second part features selected papers that disclose the conference proceedings
The Value of Critical Knowledge, Ethics and Education: Philosophical History Bringing Epistemic and Critical Values to Values
No full textThis book aims at six important conceptual tools developed by philosophers. The author develops each particular view in a chapter, hoping to constitute at the end a concise, interesting and easily readable whole. These concepts are: 1. Ethics and realism: elucidation of the distinction between understanding and explanation – the lighthouse type of normativity. 2. Leadership, antirealism and moral psychology – the lightning rod type of normativity. 3. Bright light on self-identity and positive reciprocity – the reciprocity type of normativity. 4. The virtue of generosity and its importance for inclusive education – the divine will type of normativity. 5. Ethical education as normative philosophical perspective. The normativity of self-transformation in education. 6. Aesthetics as expression of human freedom and concern for the whole world in which we live
The Value of Critical Knowledge, Ethics and Education: Philosophical History Bringing Epistemic and Critical Values to Values
Full text linkThis book aims at six important conceptual tools developed by philosophers. The author develops each particular view in a chapter, hoping to constitute at the end a concise, interesting and easily readable whole. These concepts are: 1. Ethics and realism: elucidation of the distinction between understanding and explanation – the lighthouse type of normativity. 2. Leadership, antirealism and moral psychology – the lightning rod type of normativity. 3. Bright light on self-identity and positive reciprocity – the reciprocity type of normativity. 4. The virtue of generosity and its importance for inclusive education – the divine will type of normativity. 5. Ethical education as normative philosophical perspective. The normativity of self-transformation in education. 6. Aesthetics as expression of human freedom and concern for the whole world in which we live
Aesthetic values, ethics and education
Full text linkThis book, on the topic of aesthetic values, ethics, and education, gathers contributors from diverse backgrounds. University professors, theologians, international practitioners, music performers, and literary artists from different continents, i.e. Africa, Asia, and Europe, explore the profound intersection between intercultural and universal values, ethical considerations, and education through arts. The book presents essays and poems addressing the value and role of arts in challenging cultural and societal norms to nurture reasoning and social responsibility, and ultimately to promote intercultural dialogue and understanding with ethics in aesthetic value and education to foster respect and collaboration. In exploring the profound intersection between these parameters through arts, this book invites readers to reimagine the world, ethics, and critical thinking in contemporary society
Introduction : virtue based moral and ethical leadership as a collaborative analysis
Full text linkIn: Obiora F. Ike, Moral and Ethical Leadership, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution – African and Global Contexts, Geneva: Globethics.net, 2020, ISBN 978-2-88931-333-4, 7-15.Obiora Ike is concerned by the effectiveness of a limited number of cardinal virtues, which some religions such as Christianity, Islam, traditional African religions or Buddhism have in common with philosophical ethics. He uses the subject of philosophy as a rational rallying ground and a practical means to promote values oriented actions.
The author reflects on the values behind the virtues of Hope, Justice, Courage, Human Work, Trust, Love and the Common Good and offers some insights. The virtue of hope keeps life going beyond the present for only when hope is lost is all lost. It is with education and its tools that people receive transformative education that gives hope. Deriving from the virtue of justice, he finds this oldest virtue the only and solid foundation for peace which makes reconciliation possible. For how can one talk of peace without addressing the conditions that cause the lack of its presence? Courage is seen the ability to stand on integrity and if necessary contrary to the current. The value of human work and its meaning is in the fulfilment of the human destiny for livelihood, creativity, sustenance, productivity, innovation, thus bending difficulties and sweat of labour into a meaningful and salvific existentialism in a future that transcends. Trust is expressed as a standing demand for any collaboration amongst humans without which solid foundations cannot be built. The greatest virtue love is expressed beyond sentiments and ephemerals through sacrifice beyond the self, for the common good.
As one reads through each chapter of this book, there is fascination at how the ladder of human values and virtues beyond boundaries is grounded in a hierarchy. The subject of ethical and moral leadership is necessary fort the global situation of humanity in the 21st century. Beyond cultures, religions and laws it finds real space in the freedom of the human person whose choice to be good and do good is a conscious but leaned act. Using the example of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church, these virtues embody well-researched Teaching founded on rational and scientific grounds
Solidarity - Enlightened Leadership
Full text linkSolidarity could be defined in the broad sense either as a means or as an end. Considered as an end, solidarity is the motive of any virtuous action based on altruistic reasons, such as helping others to rescue someone in order to prevent a harmful situation. E. g. contributing to lift and rescue a heavy person, lying unconscious in the street on the floor, who is being handled by rescuers, but who might be needing an additional person, could express the value of solidarity as an end, since an answer to others request for help is given in the situation of emergency and risk, without having a particular obligation to help.
Solidarity as a means (to an end, not an end), could be understood as a property of dependency of a set of parts to a whole (in solidum), as when in a family or a professional group, individual and collective roles and responsibilities are melt together to some extent.This idea of benefiting others could be understood either as a way of sharing together moral sentiments as love, social virtues as friendship and shared commitments and common economic and educational interests, in a limited community circle, that of the family. Even if the division of labour is not simply based on patriarchal authority, mutual consent of family members to rules and to a common circle of interests, those of the family, resemble to a egoism of the group, and not yet to truly social and altruistic values. Solidarity as cohesion of human beings, by the means of "interchangeability of ideas, services, goods, of workforce, virtues and vices", is solidarity limited to the constitution of a process of exchange that is a means that could be used to different ends
Global Ethics Forum 2014
Full text linkGlobal Ethics Forum, Bangalore, India, 3-5 January 2014, co-organised by The Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), India, and the Centre for International Business Ethics (CIBE), Beijing, China.How to tackle the growing inequality that characterizes the beginning of this
21st century ?
This was the guiding question for the 5th edition of the Global Ethics
Forum (GEF) which took place in Bangalore, India, from 3-5 January 2014.
In the context of the five deepening global crises — economic,
financial, environmental, political, leadership — inequality has become a key
challenge in the transition towards a sustainable model of development.
It is a phenomenon that is both universal, as inequality exists between and in segments of society on a global and national level, and multidimensional, since the concerning issues range from gender and wealth distribution to access to education.
The GEF in 2014 discussed the multidimensional challenges of inequality and
explored good practices and possibilities for tackling them, such as a sharing
economy, corporate transparency, holistic business education, and many more.
This report presents a summary of the conference, with recommendations and projects for action. It mentions as well Globethics.net’s draft ‘Declaration on Principles of Equality and Inequality for a Sustainable Economy’, which was widely endorsed by the forum.
The annual GEF conferences, organized by Globethics.net, represent moments for
refueling the work behind this ongoing, dynamic process towards creating a values based world, society and economy. They are the joint effort of a global family of values driven individuals and institutions
Ethics and overcoming odious passions : mitigating radicalisation and extremism through shared human values in education
Full text linkThis publication articulated in three parts, and twelve chapters endeavours to engage with the complex negative emotions and consequent phenomenon of self-deceit, radicalisation and extremism. First part: Emotions as Lines of Demarcation or Guidelines to Our Self. The Psychodynamic Surrounding of our Intentional Self; second part: Case Studies of Some Concrete Societal Encapsulations of the Negative Passions; and third part: Resisting the Colonisation of Tyrannical Affections. Possible Paths of Mitigating Radicalisation and Extremism. What kind of educational responses can be given to extremist claims of territory, identity, resources, power, and interpretations?
How can a dialogue on unifying ethical principles and values aid in developing common grounds for preventing radical and extremist excesses?
With authors from three continents, this publication endeavours to not only ask the uncomfortable questions with regard to the exteriorisation of human emotive predispositions and inclinations to ostracize, stigmatise and discriminate. The exit door from the extreme is also clearly presented, through four contributions, notably the interplay of Charvaka philosophy, Sikh wisdom on balanced forms of engagement with strong emotions
Poésie et éthique: Présentation du livre
No full textPoetry and Ethics: Inventing Possibilities in Which We Are Moved to Action and How We Live Together, Obiora Ike / Andrea Grieder / Ignace Haaz (Eds.), Global Series No. 16, Geneva: Globethics Publications, 2018, pp. 247-262
Introduction : on the importance of rereading major works of culture and history and the importance of connecting each other together
Full text linkIn: Ike, Obiora F. (2020), Applied Ethics to Issues of Development, Culture, Religion and Education, Globethics.net Co-publications Series, Geneva: Globethics.net, pp. 9-19. ISBN: 978-2-88931-335-8In his latest book, Relire le relié (2019), the French philosopher Michel Serres explains that the spirit of synthesis is becoming important in our time, because we live in an era where a global perspective on things and people has become crucial. Perhaps one of the most important reasons could be the meeting between the visible world and an invisible world, in a “blinding” and “incandescent” new horizon offered by the semantic of both terms “relire” to reread and “relier” to connect. A meeting of a practical, a theoretical knowledge and faith, in an energetic and energizing transformation, is at the core of this book, where human being might be invited to live in closer proximity to books, culture and literary work reading over for better social integration in life. It is as invitation to connect, a friendly path toward the development of dynamic networks of cooperation. For these two reasons these two movements should be mentioned and placed at the center of our introduction to Msgr. Prof. Dr Obiora Ike's book, Applied Ethics, published at Globethics.net. It is as second edition an invitation to reread a collection of themes, exposed to a wider audience; as profound thinking on religious and cultural ethical values this compendium is an exploration of how values help to connect within and across human communities
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