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Instilling Ethics (Paperback)
Norma Thompson; Contributions by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy, Vickie Sullivan, …
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Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical
sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our
time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent
scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems,
pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices
today. Instilling Ethics offers a new way of connecting today's
ethics to the great ethical sources of the past-- classical,
medieval, and early modern--and presents a wise and witty critique
of the current practice of 'professional ethics.'
Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical
days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of
supporting expectant and new parents by helping them to become more
attuned, sensitive and empathic towards their child. Contributors
bring together a range of theoretical perspectives to show
different ways to facilitate groups that combine mindfulness and
psychological insight to promote bonding, attunement and
mind-mindedness, and to prevent abuse and neglect. Case examples
show a range of techniques that can be used, including baby
massage, movement therapy, Video Interaction Guidance, Watch Wait
Wonder and psychotherapeutic interventions. Examples include an
in-patient mother-baby unit, community and health centres in the
UK, to international examples in Greece, Kenya and New Zealand.
Chapters illustrate practical and clinical aspects of running
groups, the associated challenges, and highlights the importance of
professional collaboration in a benign environment. Weaving the
Cradle is full of ideas and insights for those already running
groups, as well as for those considering it, across health, social
care and education settings.
This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections
on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when
there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the
West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative
narratives-including multiculturalism, diversity, and
sustainability-have come to the fore in the stead of Western
civilization. The present volume is designed to explore the roots,
extent, and long-term consequences of this educational climate: How
and why did undergraduate education turn its back on what was once
an important component of its mission? To what extent has such
change affected the experience of undergraduates and the ability of
colleges to educate citizens of a constitutional republic? What are
the likely individual and social outcomes of such a shift in
educational priorities? The volume's theme is, and will continue to
be, the subject of national scholarly and media attention.
Norma Thompson opens a new angle of political vision in this
imaginative and engaging interpretation of Herodotus' History. She
claims for the "father of history" a position in the canon of
political thought, finding modern validity in his fundamental
perceptions about the importance of stories to the coherence of
political communities. Thompson arrives at a unique explanation for
Herodotus' side-by-side placement of factual and fanciful
historical stories. She contends that he recognized the central
importance of compelling stories, even imaginary ones like the tale
of Arion, the poet and singer who leaped into the sea to escape
Corinthian pirates and was carried to safety on the back of a
dolphin. Such stories can become the "facts" of a people's past and
thereby the core of the political community. Herodotus understood
that stories define and bind together one polity as distinct from
others. Further, a polity evolves in reference to its own defining
story. Thompson relates Herodotus' work to historical and cultural
debate among such scholars as Martin Bernal, Francois Hartog, and
Edward Said, and she invites philosophers, philologists,
anthropologists, historiographers, and political theorists into the
discussion.
It was to all appearances an ordinary murder - many might have said
that it was an open-and-shut case. But some jurors were not
convinced, and the taint of reasonable doubt led one of them to
question the very future of our legal system. For many Americans,
the civic responsibility of jury duty might seem an inconvenience;
for Norma Thompson, it was a unique opportunity to bring her
expertise to bear on the state of trial procedures in America
today. With a background in political science, literature, and the
classics, Thompson served as jury foreman in a trial of an
""ordinary"" murder in New Haven, Connecticut. Deliberations were
buffeted by crosswinds of common sense and strong emotion. The
trial ended in a hung jury because of what Thompson calls the
""unreasonable doubts"" of two fellow jurors concerning
circumstantial evidence in an age when DNA testing holds out the
promise of irrefutable proof. In a compelling tale of contrasting
rhetoric, Thompson takes readers into the courtroom to hear a
streetwise convict verbally sparring with the D.A., then brings us
into the confines of the jury room to have us witness nervous
chatter over the meaning of evidence. She also contrasts this
ordinary murder with the concurrent brutal stabbing of a Yale
student, a case that attracted considerably more police and media
attention. Thompson argues that the indeterminate results of the
trial are symptomatic of larger problems in the justice system and
society and that the reluctance of most people today to be
judgmental is damaging the criminal justice system. As an antidote,
she suggests that great literary and historical texts can help us
develop the capacity for prudential judgment. Gleaning insights
from an imaginary jury of Tocqueville and Plato, Jane Austen and
William Faulkner, among other writers and thinkers, Thompson shows
how confrontation with the works of such authors can help model
more proper habits of deliberation. Blending personal memoir,
social analysis, and literary criticism, ""Unreasonable Doubt"" is
a challenging book that deals squarely with the evasion of judgment
in contemporary political, social, and legal affairs. Brimming with
brilliant insights, it suggests that the foundations for thought
and action in our time have been neglected as a result of the wall
erected between the social sciences and the humanities and invites
readers to consider jury duty in a new light. Through real-world
drama and literary reflection, it shows us that there is more to
politics than power - and more of value to be found in the
humanities than we may have supposed.
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