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    Happy: A Memoir

    Alex Lemon

How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living

by Rushworth M Kidder

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Publisher Comments:

Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for your children's education? Should you protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers?

How do you handle questions such as these? We frequently face ethical dilemmas in our daily lives, and few have trouble with the "right vs. wrong" choices. However, the "right vs. right" dilemmas, in which neither choice is clearly or widely accepted as wrong, many times present obstacles that call for value-based decisions, and that's where we often need help.

Kidder — the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics — teaches us how to think for ourselves in order to resolve any ethical dilemma, from the personal to the philosophical. Unique in its approach and full of illustrative anecdotes, How Good People Make Tough Choices is an indispensable resource for arriving at sound conclusions when facing tough choices.

Synopsis:

“ A brilliant analysis that squarely faces all the issues and can be grasped by the thoughtful nonspecialist.”

Synopsis:

Every day, people face tough choices in which their basic moral principles seem to be in conflict. Now, the Director of the Institute for Global Ethics offers a clear strategy for solving ethical dilemmas. Rushworth Kidder explains ends-based, rule-based, and care-based decision making--and uses real-life examples to show how these principles can applied to thorny problems.

About the Author

Prior to founding the Institute for Global Ethics in Camden, Maine, and London, England, Rushworth M. Kidder, Ph.D., was a senior columnist for the Christian Science Monitor. For the past fifteen years he has worked to refine the guidelines for ethical decision making through the institute's mission of research, public discourse, and practical action. Kidder leads seminars, gives keynote speeches, and conducts interviews with global leaders. He is an award-winning author of eight books on subjects ranging from twentieth-century poetry to the global ethical future and is a trustee of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. He serves on the advisory board of the Kenan Ethics Center at Duke University, the advisory council of the Character Education Partnership, and the advisory board of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on public television. In addition to his weekly columns for the institute's Ethics Newsline, Kidder's op-ed pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Globe. He lives with his family in Lincolnville, Maine.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780688175900
Subtitle:
Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Author:
Kidder, Rushworth M
Author:
Kidder, Rushworth M.
Author:
by Rushworth M Kidder
Publisher:
Harper Paperbacks
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Subject:
Business Ethics
Subject:
Decision Making & Problem Solving
Subject:
Decision-making
Subject:
General Philosophy
Subject:
Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Edition Number:
1st Quill ed.
Edition Description:
Quill
Series Volume:
no. 89
Publication Date:
December 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
7.96x5.34x.57 in. .40 lbs.

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