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

by Rushworth M. Kidder

• ISBN13: 9780684818382
• ISBN10: 0684818388
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780061743993
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-25
• Publisher: Fireside
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Contents

Preface

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