Robert Albin
Robert Albin is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Liberal Arts, Sapir College, Isreal. His main research interests are in the field of Applied Ethics, especially in business Ethics and in Ethics in organizations. He serves as a member of the IDF Committee for Consciousness Exemption from Military Service. He published several articles in the field of Applied Ethics and a book: A Chronicle of the Decline of Rationality: Ethics in the Practice of Journalism (Hebrew) 2004. He is currently working on a conceptual study of 'responsibility'. Correspondence address: Department of Liberal Arts, Sapir College, D. N. Hof-Ashkelon 79165, Israel. Email Address: [email protected]
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I present the notion of moral responsibility and, specifically, moral accountability, which stands at
the centre of the later discussion. I address Coleen Macnamara’s view of accountability, a model of
enforcement involved in setting demands and sanctions. Then I account for some cases of morally
impaired persons’ failure to respond adequately to moral demands, in contrast to their capacity to
respond effectively to organizational demands. I take the latter findings to show that there are two
distinct kinds of accountability, moral and organizational. While moral accountability is connected to
the arousal of emotions, I claim that organizational accountability is related to inner-organizational
reactive procedures associated with employment benefits (such as promotion and other employment
rewards) or sanctions. However, this can be distant from emotions.
the history of applied ethics that have tried to develop a
theory of moral reasoning. The goal of this paper is to
explicate one aspect of the debate between various attempts
of offering a specific method for resolving moral
dilemmas. We contrast two kinds of deliberative methods:
deliberative methods whose goal is decision-making and
deliberative methods that are aimed at gaining edifying
perspectives. The decision-making methods assessed include
the traditional moral theories like utilitarianism and
Kantianism, as well as second order principles, such as
principlism and specified principlism. In light of this assessment, we suggest taking a closer look at two perceptive
models, casuistry and particularism. These models are
used for dealing with moral dilemmas that provide for
edifying perspectives rather than decision-making. These
perceptive models, though less scientific and not as good
at prescribing an action, are more human in the sense that
they enrich our moral sensibilities and enhance our understanding of the meaning of the situation.
השאלה המרכזית במחקר נוגעת להשלכות האתיות של העשייה העיתונאית, וליתר דיוק: היא נוגעת לאחריות האתית של העיתונאי על עיצובו של השיח בחברה. מחד, השאלה נוגעת לתפיסת האתיקה של העיתונות כפי שהיא באה לידי ביטוי בקודים המקצועיים של אגודות מקצועיות שונות ומאידך, היא נוגעת לתפיסת השפעותיה על עיצובו של האדם בתרבות שבה העיתונות לוקחת חלק חשוב בהפצה של מידע ובהפקת פירושים למידע.