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How Good People Make Tough Choices Rev Ed - Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living
Rushworth M. Kidder, 2009

ISBN10: n/a    ISBN13: 9780061743993


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 Fitnessa 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 anecdotesupdated with examples of real-world conflicts from today's political realm and from Dr. Kidder's own observationsHow Good People Make Tough Choices is an indispensable resource for spotting, understanding, and resolving our toughest decisions.