This anthology poses challenges central to Elizabeth Minnich's book
The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking
to outstanding thought leaders from a wide range of fields. In a
time when even small acts can have consequences that spread wider
and much faster than ever, when public discourse is more banal and
superficial even as it is inflated by bluster and fractured by
group-think, knee-jerk partisanship, and hyper-specialization, it
is a book whose outstanding authors reflect with urgency on how we
can and why we must think what we are doing as professionals,
citizens, public actors, and, crucially also, as educators. The
book brings together a group of distinguished thought leaders in
widely varied fields: philosophy, evaluation, community organizing,
sociology, systems thinking, business management, sociology,
leadership, humanities, public policy, ethics, and religion. Each
of these authors has struggled with how to practice as well as how
to teach people not only to be "a success" as measured by title,
office, and pay, but how and why it is crucial that each and all of
us learn to think well about what we are doing, its effects, how
and why we are doing it. They discuss issues such as lying; the
ethics of 'fixing' genes that will then be passed on; knowing when,
even whether, to intervene in genocide; unintended effects of
economic development efforts; the effects of rewards only for
short-term studies; making public policy with the public.
Philosophically framed and interdisciplinary in approach, the book
is written to be accessible to a general educated audience. It is
designed to be thought-provoking, illuminating, and useful.
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