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  • Thinking Ethics was a project launched in Geneva to foster the debate about ethics. A few friends, fed up with only reading about abuses in the media, decided to hold a forward-looking seminar on five subjects: ethics and performance, ethics and knowledge, ethics and consciousness, ethics and disobedience and ethics in real time. If moral has to do with right and wrong, then ethics is its application in society. We believe that people need to talk about the subject to determine the level of ethics they want. The book Thinking Ethics, a result of the seminar, is to start the discussion. This blog is a contribution to the conversation.
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  • Pascal Marmier
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January 19, 2006

Ethical icons

Martin Luther King's birthday has now been celebrated officially since 20 years. Coming so soon after the death of Rosa Parks, it reminds us of that period and what they were able to achieve in terms of ending legal segregation in the US, and applying varied approaches to the problems of minorities. Also they are icons in effective non-violent demonstration. Martin Luther King's vision of democracy and human rights, his actions, his mobilizing capabilities, his great oratory made us dream of a better world. His vision and message have stood the test of time. We really should think of globalizing this, exporting this around the world. Celebrate this.

A more complete article by Taylor Branch in the New York Times can be found here.

Posted by on January 19, 2006 at 09:02 AM in Society |

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