Ethics

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Honest Politics Now

What ethical conduct means in Canadian Public Life

Using high-profile political scandals as case studies, this book explores the standards of accountability to which Canadian politicians are now being held. This is the definitive up to date book … 392 View

Languages of the Unheard

Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy

“What we must see,” Martin Luther King once insisted, “is that a riot is the language of the unheard.” In this new era of global protest and popular revolt, Languages of … 232 View

On Love and Tyranny

The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt

In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of … 272 View

Protecting Research Confidentiality

What happens when law and ethics collide

Lawyers and their clients can talk in complete confidence, secure that the law protects what they say from being revealed to anyone. Priests can hear confessions with reasonable certainty that no … ; 432 View
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That Which Should Never Have Happened

From: On Love and Tyranny

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In the introduction, Heberlein exmines the links between Hannah Arendt’s love of the world and her explorations of evil. 4 $0.40 Add
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Preface

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

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Provides an overivew of the topic of Research Confidentiality and the problem that academic researchers are not protected by law when it comes to assuring confidentiality to their participants, … 7 $0.70 Add
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Preface to the New Edition

From: Honest Politics Now

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Discusses ethics in politics and the effects of various forms of political corruption on democracy. 8 $0.80 Add
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Ethics and the Principles of Democracy

From: Honest Politics Now

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Discusses how ethical politics is a requirement for genuinely democratic government. 28 $2.80 Add
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The Militant’s Vocation

From: Languages of the Unheard

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This chapter explores two case studies in the recent history of militancy: the recent Assemblies movement and the Global Justice movement from around the turn of the twenty-first century, and … 24 $2.40 Add
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Threats to Research Confidentiality

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

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Examines the threats to research confidentiality currently being faced by academics through outlining the purpose of the book as a whole, lawful threats to research confidentiality, What is at … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Young Hannah

From: On Love and Tyranny

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This chapter describes Hannah Arendt’s birth of a middle-class Jewish family, her parents’ interest in society and politics, and the early loss of her father to syphilis. It also … 11 $1.10 Add
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Ethical Duties

From: Honest Politics Now

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Discusses ethical duties (trustees of public interest, impartiality, accountability) of elected politicians and other public officials as the basis for the more specific codes of ethical conduct … 23 $2.30 Add
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Ogden’s Research on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

From: Protecting Research Confidentiality

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Beginning of their analysis of Russell Ogden’s case regarding the subpoena he received on his research into assisted suicide, looks at his history with Simon Fraser University’s … ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Passion

From: On Love and Tyranny

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This chapter explores Arendt’s relationship with the philosopher Martin Heidegger. 10 $1.00 Add
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The Liberal Objection

From: Languages of the Unheard

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Not everyone admires confrontational protesters. Some people specifically dispute the claim that militancy is good for democracy. They believe, on the contrary, that militancy is a failing, … 24 $2.40 Add
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Ethical Problems in Public Life

From: Honest Politics Now

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Discusses how and why conflicts of interest, patronage, undue influence (including some lobbying and election-financing practices) and abuse of trust are incompatible with any idea of democracy … 40 $4.00 Add