Manus Charleton
Manus Charleton writes essays and fiction. His work has been published in Irish Pages, A Journal of Contemporary Writing, Dublin Review of Books, Studies, an Irish Quarterly Review, on RTE’s Brainstorm website, and on the Religion and Ethics website of the Australian National Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
He studied philosophy in University College Dublin in the late 1960s and early 70s. From 1980 to 2012 he worked as a lecturer in the now (since 2022) Sligo campus of Atlantic Technological University (ATU). He taught Communications initially, followed by Ethics, Politics, and Morality & Social Policy on the Social Care degree, and Ethics on a Masters in Business Administration.
He wrote the textbook Ethics for Social Care in Ireland: Philosophy and Practice (2nd. edition 2014). See side panel. And has also been published in the Journal of Social Work Practice and the European Journal of Social Education.
Ethics and Philosophy
As a subject of study in itself, ethics comes within philosophy. One of the central questions philosophy explores is the understanding of what it means to be good or to do the right thing. Within ethical or moral philosophy attempts are made to establish a basis for values and principles to guide behaviour in practice.
See ‘Some Thoughts on Moral Philosophy Now’ under ‘About Ethics’ in the ‘Ethics’ page, link above.
Home Page Quote
“Only now, in our digital age, are we discerning the true extent of the ‘Kafkaesque’, in the form of the data-driven, algorithmic surveillance bureaucracies, which Watroba documents. Furthermore, so much of our anxiety around technology concerns, in her words, ‘transhuman transformations’, Kafka’s account of which remains fertile.”
Essay ‘The Meaning of Kafka’, by Tanjil Rashid, Financial Times, Arts & Life supplement, 1/2 June 2024