Ethical Wisdom

Download or read book Ethical Wisdom written by Mark Matousek and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bestselling author—“a riveting, fun, and insightful tour of life’s meaning and purpose, essential reading for anyone drawn to the query, ‘How ought we to live?'” (Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence) Contrary to what we’ve been taught in our reason-obsessed culture, argues Matousek, emotions are the bedrock of ethical life; without them, human beings cannot be empathic, moral, or good. But how do we make the judgment call between self-interest and caring for others? What does being good really mean? Which parts of morality are biological, which ethical? When should instinct be trusted and when does it lead us into trouble? How can we know ourselves to be good amidst the hypocrisy, fears, and sabotaging appetites that pervade our two-sided natures? Drawing on the latest scientific research and interviews with social scientists, spiritual leaders, ex-cons, altruists, and philosophers, Matousek examines morality from all angles in this thoroughly entertaining and helpful guide to crossing one’s own murky moral terrain.

Download or read book Ethical Wisdom for Friends written by Mark Matousek and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matousek draws from personal experience, interviews, and letters from readers to provide wisdom about friendship, commitment, honesty, greed, jealousy, loyalty, competition, imitation, abandonment, and reconciliation. Each of the twenty-four essays examining a plethora of moral dilemmas is followed by thought-provoking questions.

Download or read book Ethical Know-How written by Francisco J. Varela and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes, and creating an ethic adequate to our present awareness that there is no such thing as a transcendental self, a stable subject, or a soul.

Download or read book Strengthening Ethical Wisdom written by Jack A. Gilbert and published by AHA Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, research-based guide for strengthening workplace and personal ethics. Step-by-step explanations, case examples, and questionnaires help readers identify and manage the ethical drift to which health care management and staff can succumb under the daily pressure to do more with less. Provides tools that assess where the organization and individuals stand in their relative strengths and weaknesses regarding everyday ethical decision making. Includes diagnostic tools (also accessible online) that help assess the strength of ethical pathways and presents ways to create needed change. Covers the ethical pathways through which an organization produces exceptional results by doing the right thing and discusses the practices that are essential to the health of each of those pathways. Assists those who struggle to maintain a balance between personal values and organizational behaviors where small steps and decisions lead to ethical conflicts that undermine an organizations viability and credibility.

Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures written by Johann Peter Lange and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organizational Power and Ethical Subjectivity written by Youzheng Li and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles discusses the basic epistemological issues facing the global theoretical humanities in terms of cross-cultural points of view. The topics discussed especially concern theoretical semiotics, institutional restrictions of current humanities scholarship, and comparative historical semiotics, as well as the more applicable and empirical-rational-directed humanist ethics. The text is characterized by its hermeneutic dialogue between contemporary western theories and traditional Chinese intellectual history, that will be instructive and informative for scholars and theoretical readers of all branches in both the western and non-western humanities. It emphasizes the great significance of the theoretical humanities in our times and their urgent task should lie in collectively reconstructing a more rationalized humanist-scientific foundation for a new type of human sciences through critically reorganizing all intellectual sources of mankind.