Is Hip Hop Music A Cause for Ethical Concern?

   Recently, we heard a cultural sociologist speak about the dangers of hop hop music, drawing on her PhD thesis research of young women who were alternately excited and disgusted by many of the lyrics. My response was that music is entertainment, that there have always have been parent-children gaps involving music and literature, and

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The Dalai Lama Speaks about Ethics and Values in Boston

   In a meeting with the Deans of Admission of several Universities and Schools The Dalai Lama was asked about his philosophy of education. He replied that every sentient being, beings who have experience of pleasure or pain, has a desire to live a happy life. Human beings have a brain that allows them to

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The Rise of the Compassionate Leader: Should You Be Cruel to Be Kind?

“There’s a powerful link between productivity and what has been identified as “compassionate leadership” in organisations, observes Christina Boedker, a lecturer in accounting at the Australian School of Business and leader of a major business research study that looks at the links between leadership and organisational performance.”Read more.

How Do We care for Future People?

“What then is the obligation of parents and of society when safe genetic enhancement is available? We are already dealing with these obligations around prenatal genetic testing, especially in IVF, when parents are faced with choices about which among a set of embryos to implant. According to liberal secular bioethics our obligation is ensure that

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The Righteous Mind — Understanding the Liberal-Conservative Polarity in Politics and Decision-Making

Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon; 2012) The full review, by David Nitkin at EthicScan,  can be found in the Ethics in Integrity Webzine: At first glance a book on moral psychology would seem to be of limited interest to elected government officials, but first impressions

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Ethics as Add on to Legal Compliance– Not

From Conflict of Interest Blog by Jeff Kaplin: Many years ago, I heard the great federal judge J. Skelly Wright tell this wonderful story. He was presiding over a trial in Louisiana and asked one of the attorneys why the attorney referred to all the witnesses as “Colonel,” to which the attorney responded: That’d don’t

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