Jun 27, 2012 | Current Books
Burton L. Visotzky wrote a book about Genesis, the first book in the Hebrew Bible. It is a book about moral dilemmas and ethics. it is about moral development. It is about life. The Bible can be dry at times. I know that my eyes glaze over when reading lists of...
Jun 27, 2012 | Current Books
Michael Sandel, the Ann T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University writes about ethics. The study of ethics is very difficult. There are many systems and subsystems. His examples of ethical dilemmas are easy to understand. He forces the reader...
Jun 27, 2012 | Current Books
John Murray Cuddihy takes a look a the theories of Freud, Marx and Levi-Strauss. I re-read this book because it speaks to me about the difficulty of being human. We must make sacrifices to live in a civil world that prioritizes compassion, although the subtitle is The...
Jun 27, 2012 | Current Books
Written by the late Joseph Fletcher, Visiting Scholar of Medical Ethics at the University of Virginia and Robert Treat Paine Professor Emeritus at the Episcopal Theological School, Harvard University. Fascinating and macabre-an ethicist with a religious background who...
Jun 26, 2012 | Current Books
I read the Bible for stories about human nature. And I read the Bible because it is the book that describes ethical monotheism, the ethic upon which all of western culture is founded, Ethical monotheism, the Judeo-Christian ethic is the rock upon which democracy...
