Real American Ethics
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Author | : Albert Borgmann |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0226066355 |
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America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism. But America, for better or for worse, is still a nation that we have built. So why then, asks Albert Borgmann in this most timely and urgent work, are we failing to take responsibility for it? In Real American Ethics, Borgmann asks us to reevaluate our role in the making of American values. Taking his cue from Winston Churchill—who once observed that we shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us—Borgmann considers the power of our most enduring institutions and the condition of our present moral makeup to propose inspired new ways in which we, as ordinary citizens, can act to improve our country. This, he shows, includes everything from where we choose to live and what we spend our money on to daunting tasks like the reshaping of our cities—habits and actions that can guide us to more accomplished and virtuous lives. Using prose that is easy and direct throughout, Borgmann’s position is grounded neither by conservative nor liberal ideology, but in his understanding that he is a devoted citizen among many. In an age in which the blame game is the only game in town, this patriotic book is an eloquent reminder of the political strength we all wield when we work together.
Author | : Albert Borgmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2011-05-14 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780369321602 |
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America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism. But America, for better or for worse, is still a nation that we have built. So why then, asks Albert Borgmann in this most timely and urgent work, are we failing to take responsibility for it? In Real American Ethics, Borgmann asks us to reevaluate our role in the making of American values. Taking his cue from Winston Churchill - who once observed that we shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us - Borgmann considers the power of our most enduring institutions and the condition of our present moral makeup to propose inspired new ways in which we, as ordinary citizens, can act to improve our country. This, he shows, includes everything from where we choose to live and what we spend our money on to daunting tasks like the reshaping of our cities - habits and actions that can guide us to more accomplished and virtuous lives. Using prose that is easy and direct throughout, Borgmann's position is grounded neither by conservative nor liberal ideology, but in his understanding that he is a devoted citizen among many. In an age in which the blame game is the only game in town, this patriotic book is an eloquent reminder of the political strength we all wield when we work together.
Author | : James R. Otteson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2006-06-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139457101 |
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Actual Ethics offers a moral defense of the 'classical liberal' political tradition and applies it to several of today's vexing moral and political issues. James Otteson argues that a Kantian conception of personhood and an Aristotelian conception of judgment are compatible and even complementary. He shows why they are morally attractive, and perhaps most controversially, when combined, they imply a limited, classical liberal political state. Otteson then addresses several contemporary problems - wealth and poverty, public education, animal welfare, and affirmative action - and shows how each can be plausibly addressed within the Kantian, Aristotelian and classical liberal framework. Written in clear, engaging, and jargon-free prose, Actual Ethics will give students and general audiences an overview of a powerful and rich moral and political tradition that they might not otherwise consider.
Author | : Robert J. Nash |
Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780807742563 |
Download "Real World" Ethics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Now more than ever, with the explosion of new technologies and human service delivery systems, innovative teaching methodologies and assessment instruments, classic ethical questions and problems still remain. The Second Edition of Robert Nash's bestseller expands on his earlier work with the addition of an extensive "question-and-answer" epilogue where Nash responds to questions about the first edition. This new chapter incorporates the latest research in applied ethics teaching and in resolving ethical dilemmas in the professions. The only applied ethics book written for both educators and human service professionals, "Real World" Ethics is essential reading for everyone who find themselves faced with making critical ethical decisions in their work.
Author | : Daniel Terris |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2013-01-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1611684609 |
Download Ethics at Work Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A fascinating assessment of the ethics program at Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest defense contractors.
Author | : Paul A. Dewald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download Ethics Case Book of the American Psychoanalytic Association Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Addressing the issue of professional ethics in the field of psychotherapy, this volume uses classical vignettes and discussions to examine the complexities faced by a therapeutic clinician in dealing with patients. Either hypothetical, generic, or composite situations, the examples are designed to help clinicians better recognize and respond to the ethical issues they will likely encounter in the field.
Author | : Joshua Halberstam |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1994-04-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780140165586 |
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“The perfect handbook for understanding what constitutes moral relations with friends, enemies, and one’s own self.” —Booklist In an age when most of us spend more time thinking about what movie we’ll see than about how we want to lead our lives, nothing could be more timely and helpful than Everyday Ethics. In this refreshingly original book, Joshua Halberstam shows us how to develop a moral imagination—and have fun while doing it. Halberstam demolishes the clichés of both religion and psychotherapy and entices us into looking at the small actions that make up the big picture of our character and values. Should we really refrain from making judgments? Should we let our conscience be our guide even if it urges us not to pay our taxes? Halberstam has something intriguing to say about these and many other issues. Witty and entertaining, Everyday Ethics is the moral equivalent of an aerobic dance session, as exhilarating as it is instructive.
Author | : Charles Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 0674987691 |
Download The Ethics of Authenticity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the slide of Western culture into relativism and nihilism and others celebrate the trend as a liberating sort of progress, Charles Taylor calls on us to face the moral and political crises of our time, and to make the most of modernity's challenges. "The great merit of Taylor's brief, non-technical, powerful book...is the vigor with which he restates the point which Hegel (and later Dewey) urged against Rousseau and Kant: that we are only individuals in so far as we are social... Being authentic, being faithful to ourselves, is being faithful to something which was produced in collaboration with a lot of other people... The core of Taylor's argument is a vigorous and entirely successful criticism of two intertwined bad ideas: that you are wonderful just because you are you, and that 'respect for difference' requires you to respect every human being, and every human culture--no matter how vicious or stupid." --Richard Rorty, London Review of Books
Author | : Steve Starrett |
Publisher | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Engineering ethics |
ISBN | : 9780784414675 |
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Starrett, Lara, and Bertha provide in-depth analysis of real world engineering ethics cases studies with extended discussions and study questions.
Author | : Abraham Kaplan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : National characteristics, American |
ISBN | : |
Download American Ethics and Public Policy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle