Value (ethics)

About: Value (ethics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21347 publications have been published within this topic receiving 461372 citations.

Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction

Abstract: Preface 1. The environment as an ethical question 2. Human morality 3. Meta-ethics 4. Normative ethics 5. Humans and other animals 6. The value of nature 7. Nature's future.

The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value

Abstract: "The Body Impolitic" is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.

Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security

Abstract: "If you've got nothing to hide," many people say, "you shouldn't worry about government surveillance." Others argue that we must sacrifice privacy for security. But as Daniel J. Solove argues in this book, these arguments and many others are flawed. They are based on mistaken views about what it means to protect privacy and the costs and benefits of doing so. In addition to attacking the "Nothing-to Hide Argument," Solove exposes the fallacies of pro-security arguments that have often been used to justify government surveillance and data mining. These arguments - such as the "Luddite Argument,"the "War-Powers Argument," the "All-or-Nothing Argument," the "Suspicionless-Searches Argument," the "Deference Argument," and the "Pendulum Argument" - have skewed law and policy to favor security at the expense of privacy.The debate between privacy and security has been framed incorrectly as a zero-sum game in which we are forced to choose between one value and the other. But protecting privacy isn't fatal to security measures; it merely involves adequate oversight and regulation. The primary focus of the book is on common pro-security arguments, but Solove also discusses concrete issues of law and technology, such as the Fourth Amendment Third Party Doctrine, the First Amendment, electronic surveillance statutes, the USA-Patriot Act, the NSA surveillance program, and government data mining.

Measuring the value of culture: a report to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

Abstract: The cultural sector faces the conundrum of proving its value in a way that can be understood by decision-makers. As Smith (2010b) has noted, arts and cultural organisations face a ‘cooler climate’ than the one that prevailed during the early 2000s. As a result it will not be enough for arts and culture to resort to claiming to be a unique or special case compared with other government sectors (Matarasso 2009). Since the 1980s the value of the cultural sector has been demonstrated through the lens of ‘impact’, whether economic (e.g. Myerscough 1988) or social (e.g. Matarasso 1997). However in recent years there has been recognition, both within central government and in parts of the publically funded cultural sector, of the need to more clearly articulate the value of culture using methods which fit in with central government’s decision-making. Thus the cultural sector will need to use the tools and concepts of economics to fully state their benefits in the prevailing language of policy appraisal and evaluation (Bakhshi, Freeman and Hitchen, 2009).