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As noted in Rushworth Kidder’s recent commentary, the Institute for Global Ethics has begun gathering results from a new survey assessing the most severe global challenges facing humanity.
This survey now has been unrolled publicly. If you’d like to participate, just click here and let your views be known. Thank you.
In the News
Since January 2007, IGE founder Dr. Rush Kidder has been a contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine, offering advice on the ethical issues of daily life.
Read his suggestions as part of the O Magazine 'Now What Do I Do?' Advisory Panel.
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Ethics Newsline® Commentary:
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Ethics in a Time of Crisis
Crisis invites introspection. As the markets tumble, credit freezes, and pundits mutter about the end of free-market economics, individuals and nations are revisiting their principles. What they’re finding is an age-old truth: At times of momentous challenge, there’s a tremendous yearning for straight-up integrity and sound ethical analysis. That’s different from political or economic analysis. The former helps explain last week’s hesitation waltz, as members of Congress weighed the electoral costs of voting for the financial rescue plan. The latter helps us understand the symbiosis between Wall Street and Main Street, and why only demagogues think we can cut the former adrift without sinking the latter. These two kinds of analysis provide the default languages of journalism—the way reporters typically write about the world. These days, however, neither language brings us to the crux of the matter, which is essentially ethical. We’ve finally got to confront the question of whether the way we run the world is not simply politically astute or economically feasible, but whether it’s right. |
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