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What's Right? - Social Ethics Choices and Applications (Paperback)
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What's Right? - Social Ethics Choices and Applications (Paperback)
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The purpose of this book is to help you make ethical decisions
about what should be done in a given instance, whether individual
or related to a broad policy. It does not do this by telling you
but rather by giving you tools to decide for yourself. The book
offers not so much an ethical map as a a gyroscope: offering
awareness, perspective, and ability to work out your judgments on
two levels, 1) appropriate ethical frameworks, and 2) real life
applications which may coincide with, differ from, or go beyond the
standard rules, practices, and policies where you are. It even
includes a chapter on "gray area ethics" situations: even if you
are sure of what is "right," it is not actually possible to be
purely ethical, because there are "negative costs" to every
available choice. You find yourself having to make the best choice
rather than the ideally right choice. The book is in two parts. The
first half explores alternative established frameworks for guiding
social ethics and their roots. Within each, pros, cons, and
variations are discussed. All are good. Some may be better than
others. That is for you to decide. You may well develop your own
hybrid framework which is better than any classic one. Or you may
develop your own hierarchy, in which you apply this framework to
the extent that it doesn't conflict with or subvert that "higher"
one. Built on this foundation the second half discusses several,
applied issues or policies. Each offers different, often
conflicting, ethical vantage points. The purpose is twofold. One is
to address several important social and economic issues. The other
is to develop skills for you to apply to dilemmas we face when we
apply abstract social ethics to "real life." This book is good to
read and think by yourself. It may be even better if you can find
others - a friend, a group, a seminar - with whom to explore
"What's Right?"
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