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Instilling Ethics
Author(s): Norma Thompson (Editor), Stephen Salkever (Contributor), Cary Nederman (Contributor), Jeff Macy (Contributor), Vickie Sullivan (Contributor), Clifford Orwin (Contributor), Susan Neiman (Contributor), Dwight Allman (Contributor), Stephen R.L. Clark (Contributor), Stephen K. White (Contributor), Louis Ruprecht (Contributor), Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Contributor), Carrol William Westfall (Contributor), Michael J. Fischer (Contributor), Stephanie Nelson (Contributor), Walter Nicgorski (Contributor)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 21 Jun. 2000
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0847697444
- ISBN-13: 9780847697441
Book Description
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.”
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is a book that is well worth reading. Its essays are generally lively and thoughtful pieces that collectively engage with significant questions about the present state of ethics. The volume as a whole possesses coherence in raising and answering questions about the contemporary state of ethics. ― Canadian Journal of Political Science
About the Author
Norma Thompson is associate professor of political science at Yale University.
