Synopses & Reviews
Breaking down complex philosophical issues into a step-by-step self-help guide, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics shows us how to grapple with everyday issues and problems: Should I take my family on a much-needed vacation or save money for my children's education? Should we protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? This is a unique, anecdote-rich, and articulate program that teaches us to think for ourselves rather than supplying us with easy, definitive answers. Offering concrete guidelines and principles, Kidder enables us to resolve ethical dilemmas and to make the tough choice between what are usually two "right" values.
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Jimmy Carter
A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.
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Kirkus ReviewsKidder offers practical guidelines for a coherent and mindful approach to ethical dilemmas....A brilliant analysis that squarely faces all the issues and can be grasped by the thoughtful nonspecialist.
Synopsis
Breaking down complex philosophical issues into a step-by-step self-help guide, the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics shows us how to grapple with everyday issues and problems: Should I take my family on a much-needed vacation or save money for my children's education? Should we protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? This is a unique, anecdote-rich, and articulate program that teaches us to think for ourselves rather than supplying us with easy, definitive answers. Offering concrete guidelines and principles, Kidder enables us to resolve ethical dilemmas and to make the tough choice between what are usually two "right" values.
Description
Include bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index.
About the Author
Prior to founding the Institute for Global Ethics in Camden, Maine, in 1990,
Rushworth M. Kidder was senior columnist for
The Christian Science Monitor. Before joining the
Monitor, he spent ten years as a professor of English at Wichita State University. The author of six books on subjects ranging from international ethics to the global future, he won the 1980 Explicator Literary Foundation Award for his book on the poetry of e. e. cummings. He lives in Lincolnville, Maine.
Table of Contents
ContentsPreface
Chapter One
Overview: The Ethics of Right Versus Right
Chapter Two
Right Versus Wrong: Why Ethics Matters
Chapter Three
Ethical Fitness
Chapter Four
Core Values
Chapter Five
Right Versus Right: The Nature of Dilemma Paradigms
Chapter Six
Three More Dilemma Paradigms
Chapter Seven
Resolution Principles
Chapter Eight
"There's Only 'Ethics'"
Chapter Nine
Epilogue: Ethics in the Twenty-first Century
Notes
Index