How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed
Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
By Rushworth M. Kidder
(Harper Paperbacks, Paperback, 9780061743993, 272pp.)
Publication Date: December 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: Business Ethics, Decision Making & Problem Solving, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for the kids' education? Protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? Have a heart-to-heart with a lying employee or fire him on the spot?
All of us face ethical choices. Sometimes they're easy: One side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really tough "right vs. right" dilemmas, where each side has strong moral arguments and we can't do both? This book helps us build Ethical Fitness®—a values-based decision-making process so definitive that it's now a registered trade mark.
Rushworth M. Kidder, founder of the Institute for Global Ethics, teaches us how to think for ourselves in order to resolve ethical dilemmas ranging from the intimately personal to the broadly philosophical. Unique in its approach and rich with illustrative anecdotes—updated with examples of real-world conflicts from today's political realm and from Dr. Kidder's own observations—How Good People Make Tough Choices is an indispensable resource for spotting, understanding, and resolving our toughest decisions.
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.
“A brilliant analysis that squarely faces all the issues and can be grasped by the thoughtful nonspecialist.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“A thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.”
-Jimmy Carter
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