Ethics in public life : good practitioners in a rising Asia /

This book is a set of case studies, relating and reflecting on the stories of specific practitioners, in identified Asian contexts, struggling to act purposefully and conscientiously within their spheres of work, to meet their professional duties as they understand them. Through careful examination...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winston, Kenneth I. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Series:Asia today.
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Table of Contents:
  • A gift of life: developing a framework for ethics
  • The prison master's dilemma: ethics in a non-ideal world
  • Missionaries in China: the ethics of exporting ethics
  • Addendum: Exporting the rule of law to China
  • The woman in the corridor: caring across boundaries
  • By the people: becoming a practitioner of democracy
  • Moral competence in public life.