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

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? 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. Rushworth Kidder-the founder of the Institute for Global Ethics-teaches humans to think for themselves in order to resolve any ethical dilemma, from the personal to the philosophical. ''A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.''-Jimmy Carter

About the author

Rushworth M. Kidder was a professor of English at Wichita State University for ten years before becoming an award-winning columnist and editor at the Christian Science Monitor. The author of ten 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 and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Lincolnville, Maine.

Product details

• Authors: Rushworth M. Kidder
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.11.2009
• EAN: 9780061743993
• ISBN: 978-0-06-174399-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 204 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / General, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Happiness, SELF-HELP: Self-Management / General, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Business Ethics, TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT: ETHICS, PHILOSOPHY: ETHICS, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Social Work, PHILOSOPHY: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY: Good & Evil