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How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time: Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong

How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time: Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong


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A compelling guide to ethical thinking for everyday life In How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time Iain King presents an introduction to moral philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment and beyond. He argues that right and wrong need a Newtonian revolution so that they are no longer a matter of judgment or guesswork and presents a system of simple formulas for solving difficult moral quandaries. Clearly argued, the book combines new ideas with old and rips apart traditional tenets of morality, dismantling even the golden rule that you should "do unto others as you would have done unto you." In their place, the author constructs a new, comprehensive system of ethics, identifying the basic DNA of right and wrong and offering clear advice on how to be good in today's complicated and challenging world. Sometimes controversial and thoroughly engaging throughout, How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time is required reading for anyone with a difficult decision to make.

Table of Contents:
Part I. The Problem: We Need to Make Decisions, But We Don't Know How 1. Five challenges to the formula of right and wrong 2. Desperately seeking a system 3. Unreliable advice from religion and dice 4. The Enlightenment decision-making machine: do whatever is best... 5. ... does not seem best 6. Can we fix it: the pieces of the puzzle Part II. The Proof: Finding the Basics of Right and Wrong 7. The meaning of life 8. A plan for Robinson Crusoe 9. Answering an eight-year old who incessantly asks 'why?' 10. I say this, you say that - can we ever know who's right? 11. Applying the Sherlock Holmes method 12. How to become a better person (and answer Aristotle) 13. The Help Principle 14. The DNA of right and wrong Part III. The Principle: Refining the Help Principle 15. Putting the DNA of 'right' and 'wrong' in a Petri dish 16. Using your watch to tell right from wrong 17. Letting people choose for themselves 18. Torturers and charitable show-offs 19. Revenge, reciprocity and received wisdom 20. What if you didn't mean to do it? 21. The new ladder to humility 22. The first seven Principles of right and wrong Part IV. The Programme: Extending the Principles to Other Problems 23. The myth of blame 24. Punishment, mercy and remorse 25. Something funny about promises 26. A credible rule on lying and the Richard Nixon problem 27. Rules for romance and sex 28. How to choose in small groups 29. How to choose in large groups 30. The system for making decisions 31. The riddle answered? Part V. Practical Advice: For Real People in the Modern World 32. So why aren't people good then? 33. Why people hate lawyers 34. When it's best to be bad 35. The Live Aid problem: does charity begin at home? 36. The Mother Teresa quandary: can you be good without giving everything away? 37. The man on the morning train 38. How to lead a good life in a rough world Part VI. The Prognosis: How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time 39. Newton's limits 40. What to do and why

About the Author :
Iain King, a former fellow of the University of Cambridge, UK, and author of the acclaimed Peace at Any Price (Cornell University Press, 2006), has faced many testing decisions working in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Africa.

Review :
'Iain King's ambitious book is an honest attempt to think through and answer questions at the heart of morality. Anyone with an interest in practical answers to moral questions will find this book of interest too.' - James Garvey, The Royal Institute of Philosophy, UK "...If your focus leaflets are starting to get soggy and you're frustrated with BBC political reporting, this book could be the perfect antidote for you - a reminder that there probably are deep moral truths out there and there is a reason to try to do what's right...This may well become a classic; it's certainly a good read, and definitely makes you think." - Liberal Democrat News


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  • ISBN-13: 9781441186706
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Solving the Riddle of Right and Wrong
  • ISBN-10: 1441186700
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256


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