Researcher member of the AdmEthics group will present part of her dissertation research Project at IFC-Camboriú this Thursday
The PhD candidate in Administration, member of the AdmEthics group and NISP Researcher, Laís Silveira Santos, will present a part of her dissertation research Project this Thursday (June 29), at 7:00 pm, at the Instituto Federal Catarinense – Campus Camboriú (IFC-Camboriú). Laís is studying how moral dilemmas are experienced in the public management of risks […]
Morality Policies: What’s the limit?
Public policies have become one of the main ways in which governments interfere in society and modify individual and collective actions in the pursuit of their goals. It is common to think of the different types of public policies from the classification of Theodore Lowi, but several attempts to modify or expand this typology have […]
Virtues and Technology: Forgotten lessons
It was part of the imagery of ancient Greece the distinction between human perfection through the virtues and the technique/technology as a minor activity. The technique was considered a way of “cheating” physical reality, creating artifacts whose mere course of nature would not be able to do, in order to satisfy certain human desires. But […]
Are There Universal Values?
“Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead. By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car and stood by the heap, a doe, […]