The objective of the study was to examine the effect of cognitive moral development on ethical attitudes, in the presence of reward consequences, under conditions of moral ambiguity. The study is based on business stakeholders under conditions of strategic business competition. The intention of the study is to explore and understand the predictors of ethical behaviour. The participants of the experimental study were 2012/13 GIBS MBA business students with real managerial experience. They were randomly assigned to different stakeholder roles in a controlled business simulation game called the Execugame, with varying treatments of reward consequences and a strategic competitor bluff. The study sought to determine whether Reward Consequences (RC) will be a stronger predictor of Attitude towards the Ethicality of Competitor Bluffing (ATECB) amongst Stakeholder Role Players (SRPs) than their Level Cognitive Moral Development as a predictor of Attitude towards the Ethicality of Competitor Bluffing (ATECB). Overall the results didn’t find evidence to support the research hypotheses. Hence the research failed to prove a relationship and did not find evidence to support a relationship. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / lmgibs2014 / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / MBA / Unrestricted

論文(博士)--香港中文大學歷史系,1994. / 參考文獻: p. i-xxi(3rd group) / 游子安. / 論文提要 --- p.i / Chapter 第一章 --- 善書與社會文化變遷的界定 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 善書的界說 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節 --- 社會文化變遷與善書的論題 --- p.6 / Chapter 第三節 --- 善究綜述及本文研究的取向 --- p.12 / Chapter 第二章 --- 淸代社會文化對善書發展的影響 --- p.22 / Chapter 第一節 --- 淸代的社會敎化與宣講善書 --- p.22 / Chapter 第二節 --- 民間宗敎的盛行與關帝、呂祖善書的傳播 --- p.37 / Chapter 第三節 --- 淸代學術風氣下善書的編纂和整理 --- p.52 / Chapter 第三章 --- 淸代善書編著人物及區域的研究 --- p.63 / Chapter 第一節 --- 功過格等善書反映明末淸初社會經濟的問題 --- p.63 / Chapter 第二節 --- 出入三敎的家族--江蘇長洲彭氏家學、 善書與善舉 --- p.91 / Chapter 第三節 --- 從余治及其《得一錄》論淸後期善書與善舉 --- p.111 / 附：余治年表 --- p.122 / Chapter 第四節 --- 淸末湖南善書與反敎書刊 --- p.126 / Chapter 第四章 --- 淸代善書流行的社會文化意義 --- p.142 / Chapter 第一節 --- 善書流通地域與傳播方式 --- p.142 / Chapter 第二節 --- 官紳士人各階層與善書的編刊 --- p.157 / Chapter 第三節 --- 善書特定的勸戒對象 --- p.169 / Chapter 第四節 --- 善書與世變 --- p.195 / Chapter 第五章 --- 結論 --- p.205 / 附錄 書影 / 主要徵引書目

Thesis advisor: David Hollenbach / Transnational migration presents a problem for universal human rights. Because migrants do not have full citizenship in their countries of residence, they are left out of the distribution of social goods within a nation-state. Contemporary theories of justice largely remain trapped in the framework of the "bounded society," which members enter by birth and leave by death. The dissertation argues that the protection of universal human rights depends on turning particular relationships of exploitation into relationships of co-responsibility. The dissertation draws on two sources of Christian ethics, the Bible and Catholic social teaching on migration in order to maintain both the importance of the unity of the human family, the universality of human rights, and the importance of the political community. The work of three political philosophers suggests that in order to respond to transnational migration, an ethics of migration must maintain both the universality of human rights and the moral significance of the political community, but must discard the ideal of the bounded society. The resources of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament indicate that care for the stranger must be foundational to a Christian ethics of migration. Catholic social teaching on migration maintains both the universality of human rights and the right of the state to control its borders, but ultimately fails to address whether and in what circumstances the state should prioritize its citizens over migrants and potential migrants. The dissertation uses Jon Sobrino's reflections on Christian solidarity in order to address this lacuna in Catholic social teaching on migration. It argues that the political community must protect the human rights of migrants because, in most cases, migrants are in relationships with citizens. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

Lo, Kai Ching. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-221). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement --- p.vi / Abstract --- p.viii / INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter I. --- The Problem: A Brief Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter I.a. --- Research Problems --- p.1 / Chapter I.b. --- The Subject Matters --- p.2 / Chapter I.e. --- Conceptualization of the Subject Matters --- p.3 / Chapter I.d. --- "The Orientation of the Research: Habermas, Luhmann, and Theory" --- p.6 / Chapter I.e. --- Outline of the Research Result --- p.13 / Chapter II. --- The Context --- p.17 / Chapter II.a. --- Ethics and Morality in Modern Society --- p.17 / Chapter II.b. --- Ethics and Morality in Sociology --- p.19 / Chapter II.b.l. --- Durkheim and Weber: Conception of Ethics and Morality --- p.20 / Chapter II.b.2. --- Successions and Revisions of Durkheim's and Weber's Perspectives --- p.25 / Chapter II.b.3. --- Habermas's and Luhmann's Breakthrough --- p.29 / Chapter III. --- The Framework --- p.31 / Chapter III.a. --- The Use of Metatheory --- p.31 / Chapter III.b. --- The Limitation of this thesis --- p.33 / Chapter PART I. --- HABERMAS AND LUHMANN AS THE EXEMPLARS OF SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRIES OF ETHICS AND MORALITY --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Habermas's Discourse Ethics and The Theory of Communicative Action --- p.37 / Chapter 1.1. --- Discourse Ethics --- p.38 / Chapter 1.1.1. --- Discourse Ethics as the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.40 / Chapter 1.1.2. --- The Logic of Discourse Ethics --- p.46 / Chapter 1.1.3. --- Morality and Ethical Life: From Philosophy and Politics to Sociology --- p.53 / Chapter 1.2. --- The Theory of Communicative Action: The Sociological Foundation of Discourse Ethics --- p.61 / Chapter 1.2.1. --- The Paradox of Rationalization and the Paradigmatic Change --- p.63 / Chapter 1.2.2. --- Universal Pragmatics: The Foundation of Moral Order --- p.65 / Chapter 1.2.3. --- Communicative Rationality and the Life world: The Redemption of Moral Order --- p.71 / Chapter 1.2.4. --- Communicative Action and Strategic Action: The Possibility of Immorality --- p.75 / Chapter 1.2.5. --- Ideal Speech Situation: The Unavoidable Cognitive and Normative Condition of Social Life --- p.78 / Chapter 1.3. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.81 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- : Luhmann's The Code of the Moral and Systems Theory --- p.84 / Chapter 2.1. --- The Code of the Moral --- p.84 / Chapter 2.1.1. --- The Code of the Moral as the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.86 / Chapter 2.1.2. --- Features of the Code of the Moral --- p.91 / Chapter 2.2. --- Systems Theory: Approaching a Non-normative Social Order --- p.100 / Chapter 2.2.1. --- Complexity and Binary Schematism: The Basic Settings of the World --- p.101 / Chapter 2.2.2. --- The Theory of Observation and Self-Reference: The Epistemological and Ontological Foundation of Systems Theory --- p.107 / Chapter 2.2.3. --- System/Environment Distinction and Autopoiesis: A New Conception of System --- p.117 / Chapter 2.2.4. --- Communication and Action: An Amoral Interpretation --- p.122 / Chapter 2.2.5. --- Double Contingency and Interpenetration: From Patterned Moral Order to Reflexive Amoral Order --- p.130 / Chapter 2.3. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.139 / Chapter PART II. --- FORMATION OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF ETHICS AND MORALITY: A METATHEORETICAL COMPARISON BETWEEN HABERMAS AND LUHMANN --- p.142 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- A Comparison between Habermas and Luhmann --- p.144 / Chapter 3.1. --- On Subject and the Individual --- p.144 / Chapter 3.1.1. --- On Subject --- p.144 / Chapter 3.1.2. --- On Human Individual --- p.146 / Chapter 3.2. --- On Communication and Action --- p.151 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- The Role of Language in Communication and Action --- p.154 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- The Meaning of Understanding in Communication and Action --- p.156 / Chapter 3.3. --- On Meaning and Value --- p.160 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- On Meaning --- p.160 / Chapter 3.3.2. --- On Value --- p.163 / Chapter 3.4. --- On Ethics and Morality --- p.169 / Chapter 3.4.1. --- Presuppositions --- p.170 / Chapter 3.4.2. --- Methodologies --- p.174 / Chapter 3.4.3. --- The Subject Matters and Their Level of Analysis --- p.179 / Chapter 3.4.4. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.183 / Chapter 3.5. --- On Humanism and Enlightenment --- p.184 / Chapter 3.6. --- On Society --- p.189 / Chapter 3.6.1. --- Identity and Difference --- p.189 / Chapter 3.6.2. --- The Constitution of Social Order --- p.191 / Chapter 3.6.3. --- Lifeworld and System --- p.192 / Chapter 3.6.4. --- "Rationality, Morality, and Normality" --- p.193 / Chapter 3.6.5. --- Descriptions of Modern Society --- p.196 / Chapter 3.7. --- The Nature of Sociology --- p.200 / Chapter 3.7.1. --- Methodology --- p.200 / Chapter 3.7.2. --- Sociology and Society --- p.201 / Chapter 3.8. --- Social Implications --- p.203 / Chapter 3.9. --- Concluding Remarks: Metatheoretical Reflections on the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.206 / Concluding Reflections: Prospects for the Sociology of Ethics and Morality --- p.210 / Bibliography --- p.214

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This thesis is a study of the problem of intergenerational equity and the optimal depletion of finite resources. A review of the economics literature on the subject precedes an interdisciplinary study of equity in static and intertemporal contexts. Reasons for the use of non-market rules for depletion policies are examined. A simulation model of the Canadian natural gas industry, which integrates non-market rules similar to those used for Canadian gas exports for the last thirty years, is developed to assist in the evaluation of these types of rules, focusing on their intergenerational impacts.

This study examines impediments to dynamic moral awareness. Following the understanding of knowledge developed by Michael Polanyi and Bernard Lonergan, ethics is presented not as a science of abstract norms and principles, but as a transformative science of reflection on moral activity. Drawing from the social sciences, negative structural patterns which corrupt transformative awareness are examined under the rubrics of self-deception, social ignorance, ideology, dependency and social conformity. These investigations identify and analyze sociological and psychological features of dynamic relationships preventing or corrupting processes of personal transformation and the building up of moral human community. At each stage of the study, the central role of economic and political structures and conditions influencing modern consciousness, and defining society, are taken into account. This research provides insights and analytical tools to increase our capacity to become aware of the subtle social psychological dynamics which stifle human creativity and block moral and social development within contemporary society.

Between 1900 and 1930, social scientists attempted to refashion social ethics by conducting extensive social research. Some of them collaborated with Herbert Hoover before and after he became president. In the 1920s, they accepted positions on Herbert Hoover's various commissions. The work they did on these commissions made them a forum for manifesting their interest in modernizing social ethics. At one and the same time, they were in a position to define both social ethics and the purpose of the social sciences. Throughout this dissertation, I explore the cases of three social scientists involved with Hoover's commissions: the economist Wesley Clair Mitchell, the political scientist Charles Edward Merriam, and the industrial researcher and social worker Mary van Kleeck. Wesley Clair Mitchell addressed issues of American consumption and economic behaviour. Charles Edward Merriam analyzed the political behaviour of American citizens. Mary van Kleeck surveyed labour relations between American workers and employers. In this dissertation, I have employed methods developed by intellectual historians, focussing on the published and unpublished papers that these social experts and Herbert Hoover himself produced. This collaboration between Hoover and some of the most prominent social scientists of the day explains the ambitious project they undertook, that of adjusting social ethics to the modern living conditions they had discovered while carrying out their social research. In so doing, they sought to adapt the traditional code of conduct of most Americans to the new circumstances that prevailed in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2003. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Arts. Bibliography: 399-407.

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale Divinity School, 2007. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-119).