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Author: Steven E. Rhoads
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-08-26
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521478281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An analysis of the political and economic consequences of comparable worth or pay equity policies in the USA, the UK, and Australia.
Author: Steven E. Rhoads
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-03-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521441872
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenging proponents of equal pay for comparable worth, Steven Rhoads argues that implementation has been plagued by critical and insurmountable problems. Where success has been most frequently touted--in Minnesota, England, and Australia--job evaluation results are often arbitrary and political rather than objective.
Author: Sarah Buss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-01-24
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 019753936X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To treat some human beings as less worthy of concern and respect than others is to lose sight of their humanity. But what does this moral blindness amount to? What are we missing when we fail to appreciate the value of humanity? The essays in this volume offer a wide range of competing, yet overlapping, answers to these questions. Some essays examine influential views in the history of Western philosophy. In others, philosophers currently working in ethics develop and defend their own views. Some essays appeal to distinctively human capacities. Others argue that our obligations to one another are ultimately grounded in self-interest, or certain shared interests, or our natural sociability. The philosophers featured here disagree about whether the value of human beings depends on the value of anything else. They disagree about how reason and rationality relate to this value, and even about whether we can reason our way to discovering it. This rich selection of proposals encourages us to rethink some of our own deepest assumptions about the moral significance of being human.
Author: David Miller
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001-09-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0674266129
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social justice has been the animating ideal of democratic governments throughout the twentieth century. Even those who oppose it recognize its potency. Yet the meaning of social justice remains obscure, and existing theories put forward by political philosophers to explain it have failed to capture the way people in general think about issues of social justice. This book develops a new theory. David Miller argues that principles of justice must be understood contextually, with each principle finding its natural home in a different form of human association. Because modern societies are complex, the theory of justice must be complex, too. The three primary components in Miller’s scheme are the principles of desert, need, and equality. The book uses empirical research to demonstrate the central role played by these principles in popular conceptions of justice. It then offers a close analysis of each concept, defending principles of desert and need against a range of critical attacks, and exploring instances when justice requires equal distribution and when it does not. Finally, it argues that social justice understood in this way remains a viable political ideal even in a world characterized by economic globalization and political multiculturalism. Accessibly written, and drawing upon the resources of both political philosophy and the social sciences, this book will appeal to readers with interest in public policy as well as to students of politics, philosophy, and sociology.
Author: Courtney Milan
Publisher: Courtney Milan
Published: 2019-03-26
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 1937248690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew. Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of nine and sixty, crashes into her life. The Terrible Nephew is living in her rooming house, and Violetta wants him gone. Mrs. Martin isn’t about to start giving damns, not even for someone as intriguing as Miss Violetta. But she hatches another plan—to make her nephew sorry, to make Miss Violetta smile, and to have the finest adventure of all time. If she makes Terrible Men angry and wins the hand of a lovely lady in the process? Those are just added bonuses. Author’s Note: Sometimes I write villains who are subtle and nuanced. This is not one of those times. The Terrible Nephew is terrible, and terrible things happen to him because he deserves them. Sometime villains really are bad and wrong, and sometimes, we want them to suffer a lot of consequences.
Author: Cardinal Donald Wuerl
Publisher: The Word Among Us Press
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1593254628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrate the upcoming canonization of John Paul II with The Gift of Saint John Paul II! In this book, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, captures the vision that John Paul had for the Church and the world. Cardinal Wuerl is known for his gift of teaching the faith, and in this book he explores the spiritual and pastoral wealth of John Paul’s writings as found in his encyclicals and apostolic exhortations. The Cardinal unfolds these treasures for us, presenting not only St. John Paul’s teachings, but also showing us how we can apply them in our lives. (Formerly available as The Gift of Blessed John Paul II.) “This is a profoundly spiritual, deeply theological, and engagingly pastoral presentation of the faith of the Church, the gospel imperative, and its implications and applications to the circumstances of our lives.” —Cardinal Stanislaus Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow, Poland, and Personal Secretary to Pope John Paul II
Author: Mark Timmons
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0198867948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →OSNE is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
Author: Yasushi Kato
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 3110662000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nearly all philosophers refer to Kant when debating the concept of dignity, and many approve of Kant’s conception, unaware of the tensions between Kant’s conception and the modern idea of dignity intimately connected to the idea of human rights. What exactly is Kant's conception of dignity? Is there a connecting tie between dignity and the legal sphere of human rights at all? Does Kant’s concept refer to a superior status human beings seem to own in comparison to non-rational beings? Or does it refer to an absolute value? The contributions of this volume are organised in five broader topics. In the first section tensions within the Kantian conception of dignity are discussed (C. Horn, D. Birnbacher, G. Schönrich). The second group of articles illuminates the intimate connections between dignity and human rights (R. Mosayebi, M. Kettner). The third group discusses the prevailing moral conception of dignity (S. Yamatsuta, S. Shell, O. Sensen). The fourth group focuses on the relation of dignity and end in itself (T. Hill, D. Sturma, A. Wood). The central theme of the fifth group of contributions are the social, political, and cultural dimensions of dignity (Y. Kato, K. Ameriks, K. Flikschuh, T. Saito).
