Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis <p>Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics (EiP) is a scholarly journal of applied ethics and related political theory. EiP aims to create a broad-based and unique journal for Nordic research within ethics. The contributions may focus on ethical, political or social aspects of scientific and technological developments within different fields, research ethics, and normative power, democracy and culture analyses. The journal provides a meeting place for applied ethics, be it within biotechnology, research, primary and secondary education, childhood, the Internet, culture, nature, business life, sports, the media, medicine, politics or elsewhere.&nbsp;EiP is double-blind peer reviewed and is published open access two times per year in May and November. It is currently level 1 in the&nbsp;<a href="https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalTidsskriftInfo?id=470904&amp;bibsys=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Norwegian scientific classification system</a>.</p> <p>Views expressed in the Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics are those of the authors and not necessarily those of its editors or publisher.</p> en-US <div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;">Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;">Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;">Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;">Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_blank">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</span></div> redaksjon_eip@hf.ntnu.no (The Editors) sven.strom@ub.ntnu.no (Sven K. Strøm) Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:31:55 +0000 OJS 3.2.1.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Bridging the Gap Between Implementing Ethical Ideals and Practice Through Knowledge Translation https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5909 Allen Alvarez, May Thorseth Copyright (c) 2024 Allen Alvarez http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5909 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Public spirit and compassion fatigue https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5113 <p><em>This paper discusses the concept of compassion fatigue in light of the importance that political decisions, especially the application of the concept of public spirit, have had on care and nursing in a Danish hospital context during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper is based on recent research literature in the field as well as the author’s own participatory observation study. The paper suggests that nurses already show a sense of public spirit due to their authorization and professional ethics, but at the same time they must balance the ambiguity of nursing care. A linguistic-philosophical study of public spirit shows that the concept can have a discursive, double-binding and interpellative effect on nurses, who may therefore have an experience of inadequacy and compassion fatigue. In this context, compassion fatigue must be understood as the fact that nurses cannot provide the care they want or that is expected of them. Public spirit can be said to have had a renaissance and linguistic and moral supremacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper views the concept of </em><em>waywardness<a href="#1"><sup>1</sup></a> as a possible response for how to prevent or completely avoid compassion fatigue, so that nurses instead have an experience of compassion / self-compassion. This could in the end be important for encouraging more nursing students and nurses who have the desire and opportunity to stay in the profession.</em></p> <p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Nursing care, compassion fatigue, public spirit, compassion, COVID-19 pandemic</p> Trine Lykkegaard Sønderkær Copyright (c) 2024 Trine Lykkegaard Sønderkær http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5113 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Compromises and Fairness https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5830 <p><em>Many philosophers have pointed out that a compromise that is fair in one sense can be unfair in another. In this paper, I will briefly introduce different ways in which compromises can be “fair” and then analyze them. In particular, I compare the importance of what I call (a) split-the-difference fairness and (b) end-state fairness. I will defend split-the-difference fairness against an important objection—that a person’s false belief about her fair share does not change what her fair share actually is. To allow such a notion would be rather like allowing her false belief to alter what is actually true. Nevertheless, I aim to provide support for the idea that sometimes it may make sense to consider people’s actual beliefs, even if they are false. However, I do not take a strong position on the question of what the most important sense of fairness is with regard to compromises.</em><em> </em></p> <p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Compromise, fairness, distribution, agreement, false beliefs</p> Juha Räikkä Copyright (c) 2024 Juha Räikkä http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5830 Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Aesthetic-Epistemological Contradiction in the Concept of Water https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5590 <p><em>The following paper highlights the contradictions that exist in the understanding of water: it is considered a marketable resource over which one can exert power and, at the same time, a common good used by the planet’s species and ecosystems. Based on this, and after an analysis of several widespread ideas, the paper proceeds to describe the paradox in the perception of water as a product of an alienated aesthetics that makes it impossible to experience the after-effects of the Westernised world. This lack of perception will be called </em>aesthetic omission<em>, corresponding to Eaton’s “nonperceivables” (2000). The text urges us to be aware that these kinds of aesthetics exclusions around water have global effects and ultimately determine the fate of life on Earth itself. Therefore, a complex revision of the established ontology of water is proposed in response.</em></p> <p><strong>Keywords</strong>: water; nonperceivables; aesthetics; epistemology; Earth</p> Alicia Macías Recio Copyright (c) 2024 Alicia Macías Recio Macías Recio http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5590 Sun, 26 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Privacy in a Smart City https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5572 <p><em>An increasing number of cities around the globe aim to become Smart Cities through the implementation of a range of Information and Communication technologies (ICT), AI applications and cloud-based IoT solutions. While the underlying motivations vary, all such transitions require large amounts of data. In this paper, we articulate and defend two claims about privacy in a Smart City. Our first claim is that some level of systematic data collection and processing is ethically permissible. However, there is an upper limit for what is permissible: We suggest that it is never permissible to collect and process data that significantly undermine people’s autonomy. Our second claim specifies when such minor privacy infringements that do not significantly undermine people’s autonomy are permissible: We suggest that the only policies legitimized by the first claim are those that promote the collective good.</em></p> <p><strong>Keywords</strong>: smart city, privacy, autonomy, natural right, collective good</p> Martin Peterson, Barbro Fröding Copyright (c) 2024 Martin Peterson, Barbro Fröding http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5572 Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Cobalt mining and responsibility https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5128 <p><em>The article discusses the meaning of “ethical” in the context of ethical goods. Terms like “ethical” or “responsible” have assumed new meanings when used to indicate the quality of a product or material. In the article, we analyse the transformed notion of “ethical”, its limits and extensions, using the case of cobalt mining and electronics as an illustrative example. As a non-substitutable material needed by the booming electronics industry and mined in horrendous conditions, the use of cobalt brings forth difficult questions about responsibility. We approach this question from the perspective of the meaning of “ethical” cobalt, and thereby ethical laptops. We use data collected in the context of a CSO project focused on “ethical laptops” and a literature review, and place this in the context of applied ethics. In conclusion, we show how the notion of “ethical products” is complicated by the various possible meanings of responsibility and difficult choices between disengagement from unethical practices and deeper engagement for changing these practices</em><em>.</em></p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Ethical trade, Global value chains; Ethical theory; Developing countries; Electronics; Stakeholders</p> Teppo Eskelinen, Jawaria Khan, Anna Härri Copyright (c) 2024 Teppo Eskelinen, Jawaria Khan, Anna Härri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5128 Thu, 30 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Lykke og tid https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5865 Espen Lauritzen Copyright (c) 2024 Espen Lauritzen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/etikk_i_praksis/article/view/5865 Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000