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Global Ethics: The Professional Singularity offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of how moral reasoning evolves across cultures, professions, and technological eras. Blending philosophy, history, case analysis, and contemporary issues, the book traces the journey of ethics from ancient civilizations to the digital age-revealing how moral responsibility must adapt as human power expands. Across ten units, the book examines the foundations of ethical thought and their application in modern life. Readers begin with digital ethics, exploring privacy, algorithms, surveillance, virtual identity, and the responsibilities of users and platforms. The book then turns to corporate ethics, demonstrating how integrity, transparency, leadership, and social responsibility shape organizational life in a global economy. Financial ethics follows, showing how trust, fairness, and accountability sustain markets and prevent systemic harm. Bioethics introduces the moral questions surrounding medical innovation, genetic engineering, AI in healthcare, end-of-life decisions, and global health equity. Ethical justice expands the discussion into law, human rights, and the tension between legality and morality. The book then investigates mainstream media ethics, analyzing misinformation, polarization, objectivity, privacy, and the public duty of journalism in a digital ecosystem. The second half shifts toward applied analysis. Through global ""unethical examples,"" readers confront political corruption, corporate fraud, media scandals, digital manipulation, and technological misuse-demonstrating why ethical vigilance is essential for institutions and societies. Unit 8 examines artificial intelligence, addressing bias, accountability, privacy, employment, warfare, and the ethical frontiers of machine autonomy. Unit 9 presents an academic model of ethical meditation-a reflective practice linking self-awareness to professional judgment. Finally, Unit 10 explores codes of ethics across history and professions, showing how they unify ideals into actionable standards. The book culminates in the concept of the Professional Singularity: a moment in which technological acceleration and global interdependence push professions toward shared ethical principles that transcend borders. Just as the technological singularity describes machines surpassing human cognitive limits, the professional singularity envisions the convergence of moral standards across law, medicine, business, technology, and public service. In this vision, ethics becomes a universal language grounded in dignity, responsibility, and justice. Supported by historical timelines, case studies, and modern policy frameworks, Global Ethics: The Professional Singularity offers readers a structured, rigorous, and forward-looking guide to navigating moral complexity in a rapidly changing world. It is designed for students, educators, professionals, policymakers, and anyone seeking clarity in an era where decisions-small or large-carry global consequences. Clear, comprehensive, and deeply relevant, this book invites readers to understand ethics not as abstract theory but as a practical discipline that shapes institutions, technologies, and human futures. It argues that as society advances, ethical literacy is no longer optional-it is the most important skill of the 21st century.

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