Focusing on diverse examples of corruption, this book. juxtaposes ethical theory with major topics in applied ethics. Readers benefit from seeing the application of theory to contemporary moral problem of corruption, and how to avoid and resolve the problem. Extensive coverage on combating corruption offers readers constructive ways of responding to and preventing corruption in modern-day systems and enterprises. Theoretical observations; contexts and causes of corruption; what¿s wrong with corruption; rationalizing corruption; corporate corruption and collective moral responsibility; anti-corruption systems; corruption and punishment; the rights of suspects; conflicts of interest; and whistle blowing. For those with Business, Professional, and Applied Ethics careers.

Corruption and Anti-Corruption: An Applied Philosophical Approach (Basic Ethics in Action)

Politics & Social Sciences

Miller, Seumas

Spence, Edward

ROBERTS, Peter

Philosophy

Pearson College Div

Cybersecurity, Ethics, and Collective Responsibility

Bossomaier, Terry

Oxford University Press

Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force

Terrorism, the use of military force in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and the fatal police shootings of unarmed persons have all contributed to renewed interest in the ethics of police and military use of lethal force and its moral justification. In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military combatants, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles. His conception constitutes a novel alternative to prevailing reductive individualist and collectivist accounts. As Miller argues, police and military uses of lethal force are morally justified in part by recourse to fundamental natural moral rights and obligations, especially the right to personal self-defense and the moral obligation to defend the lives of innocent others. Yet the moral justification for police and military use of lethal force is to some extent role-specific. Both police officers and military combatants evidently have an institutionally-based moral duty to put themselves in harm's way to protect others. Under some circumstances, however, police have an institutionally based moral duty to use lethal force to uphold the law; and military combatants have an institutionally based moral duty to use lethal force to win wars. Two key notions in play are joint action and the natural right to self-defense. Miller uses a relational individualist theory of joint actions to construct the notion of multi-layered structures of joint action in order to explicate organizational action. He also provides a novel theory of justifiable killing in self-defense. Over the course of his book, Miller covers a variety of urgent topics, such as police shootings of armed offenders, police shooting of suicide-bombers, targeted killing, autonomous weapons, humanitarian armed intervention, and civilian immunity.

In this book, Seumas Miller examines the moral foundations of contemporary social institutions. Offering an original general theory of social institutions, he posits that all social institutions exist to realize various collective ends, indeed, to produce collective goods. He analyses key concepts such as collective responsibility and institutional corruption. Miller also provides distinctive special theories of particular institutions, including governments, welfare agencies, universities, police organizations, business corporations, and communications and information technology entities. These theories are philosophical and, thus, foundational and synoptic in character. They are normative accounts of a sampling of contemporary social institutions, not descriptive accounts of all social institutions, both past and present. Miller also addresses various ethical challenges confronting contemporary institutional designers and policymakers, including the renovation of the international financial system, the 'dumbing down' of the media, the challenge of world poverty, and human rights infringements by security agencies combating global terrorism.

The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study

Cambridge University Press

Re-thinking Theory offers a bold approach to literary studies, itself explicitly theoretical and yet making a searching critique of the modes, concepts and movements which comprise literary theory. Discussing key concepts such as ideology, signification and discourse, and analysing schools including that of F. R. Leavis, Althusserian Marxism, Derridean and Foucaultian poststructuralism, and New Historicism, the authors argue that there are major deficiencies in the conceptual foundations and the literary and political implications of much literary theory. These deficiencies are ascribed principally to three aspects of theoretical schools: the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection of substantive accounts of the individual, and a repudiation of moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced by this kind of literary theory and places a central emphasis on ethical discourse.

Re-Thinking Theory: A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account

Literature & Fiction

Freadman, Richard

History & Criticism

In this book, Seumas Miller develops distinctive philosophical analyses of corruption, collective responsibility and integrity systems, and applies them to cases in both the public and the private sectors. Using numerous well-known examples of institutional corruption, he explores a variety of actual and potential anti-corruption measures. The result is a wide-ranging, theoretically sophisticated and empirically informed work on institutional corruption and how to combat it. Part I defines the key concepts of corruption, power, collective responsibility, bribery, abuse of authority and nepotism; Part II discusses anti-corruption and integrity systems, corruption investigations and whistle-blowing; and Part III focuses on corruption and anti-corruption in specific institutional settings, namely policing, finance, business and government. Integrating theory with practical approaches, this book will be important for those interested in the philosophy and ethics of corruption as well as for those who work to combat it.

Institutional Corruption: A Study in Applied Philosophy

In this book, Seumas Miller examines the moral foundations of contemporary social institutions. Offering an original general theory of social institutions, he posits that all social institutions exist to realize various collective ends, indeed, to produce collective goods. He analyses key concepts such as collective responsibility and institutional corruption. Miller also provides distinctive special theories of particular institutions, including governments, welfare agencies, universities, police organizations, business corporations, and communications and information technology entities. These theories are philosophical and, thus, foundational and synoptic in character. They are normative accounts of a sampling of contemporary social institutions, not descriptive accounts of all social institutions, both past and present. Miller also addresses various ethical challenges confronting contemporary institutional designers and policymakers, including the renovation of the international financial system, the "dumbing down" of the media, the challenge of world poverty, and human rights infringements by security agencies combating global terrorism.

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Corruption and Anti-Corruption: An Applied Philosophical Approach (Basic Ethics in Action)

Cybersecurity, Ethics, and Collective Responsibility

Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force

Shooting to Kill: The Ethics of Police and Military Use of Lethal Force

The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study

Re-Thinking Theory: A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account

Re-Thinking Theory: A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account

Institutional Corruption: A Study in Applied Philosophy

The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study

The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study