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

Name: How Good People Make Tough Choices Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
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ISBN: 9780688175900

ISBN-10: 0688175902

ISBN-13: 9780688175900

Edition: 2003

Authors: Rushworth M. Kidder

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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.…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface


Overview: The Ethics of Right Versus Right


Right Versus Wrong: Why Ethics Matters


Ethical Fitness


Core Values


Right Versus Right: The Nature of Dilemma Paradigms


Three More Dilemma Paradigms


Resolution Principles


"There's Only 'Ethics'"


Epilogue: Ethics in the Twenty-first Century


Notes


Index