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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
  • Kelly Richdale
  • Stephen Whittle
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July 26, 2008

Moral Clarity - the book review

I am such an inspiration junkie - anything to do with hope or idealism catches my attention. I suppose that is why I am such a fan of Barack Obama. Anyway, Susan Neiman has come out with a new book, Moral Clarity, which is a guide for grown-up idealists. It was reviewed in the International Herald Tribune by Simon Blackburn under the title "In defense of Enlightenment, Idealogy and Ideals". If you don't get the book - the review is certainly worth a read.

Posted by on July 26, 2008 at 12:11 PM in Books |

Tags: enlightenment, Idealism, Moral clarity, Susan Neiman

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