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Unique in perspective, this book offers a comprehensive values-based approach to professional ethics that is sensitive to the primary ethical issues of the workplace and that offers a positive way for dealing with these issues. It focuses on values important to all professionals and on how people do their work, not what type of work they do, and recognizes the strengths of various moral theories and the ways to harmonize as many moral values as possible. Readings (from literature, philosophy, and the professional ethics canon), exercises, and cases offer numerous opportunities for practice in interpreting values and applying them to the workplace. MORALITY AND THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE. What Professions and Professionals Are. What Morality Is. What Professional Ethics Is. Moral Reasons and Explanations. Moral Theories. Moral Analysis and Case Solving. VALUES AT WORK. Integrity. Respect for Persons. Justice. Compassion. Beneficence and Nonmaleficence. Responsibility.
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Michèle Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men--the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society.
Morality is at the center of these workers' worlds. They find their identity and self-worth in their ability to discipline themselves and conduct responsible but caring lives. These moral standards function as an alternative to economic definitions of success, offering them a way to maintain dignity in an out-of-reach American dreamland. But these standards also enable them to draw class boundaries toward the poor and, to a lesser extent, the upper half. Workers also draw rigid racial boundaries, with white workers placing emphasis on the "disciplined self" and blacks on the "caring self." Whites thereby often construe blacks as morally inferior because they are lazy, while blacks depict whites as domineering, uncaring, and overly disciplined.
This book also opens up a wider perspective by examining American workers in comparison with French workers, who take the poor as "part of us" and are far less critical of blacks than they are of upper-middle-class people and immigrants. By singling out different "moral offenders" in the two societies, workers reveal contrasting definitions of "cultural membership" that help us understand and challenge the forms of inequality found in both societies.
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Redundant w/predictable research.......2007-02-01
Lamont's research studies a comparison of white, male, American working-class men to their Black counterparts -- exhaustingly. Then she compares these two categories, then American workers in general, to the French working class. Basically, the French have a more sympathetic system due to their socialist/communist roots. The book's quotes are unsurprising - white American working class men look down upon their Black equivalents as a bunch of race-card-players. White working class American men beat the dead horse by quoting Protestant work ethics and "morality". I was glad when the book was over -- it felt like running on a hamster wheel.
A 20th-Century, Female deTocqueville!.......2004-01-30
In this book, LaMont asks white and black, American, working-class men about those they consider immoral and around whom they set boundaries. Eventually, she results in describing how these men conceive of race, immigration, and class in this country. She then compares these two groups with white French and North African counterparts, respectively.
This was impressive sociology and cross-cultural analysis. Lamont found a way to assess nebulous ideas like morality and show how they help to shape very concrete lived experiences like race. The author is great at juggling multifaceted identity matters, unlike most writers who can only deal with "one issue at a timie." She quotes few other scholars, so this book read quickly and would be much more accessible, even to its subject population, than other academic books.
Her analysis of black American men and North African men was very fair. Still, when she described men's lives in details, she usually referred to her white subjects. She states that neither white nor black American men think much about immigrants. However, she was studying subjects in New York and New Jersey. Things may have been quite different if she were studying California or Texas, and even she implies as much.
It's not that I like how many writer blab ad nauseum about their "positionality." However, I wish this author would have discussed herself more. In this postmodern age, most researchers have abandoned pretending they are not there and the evidence speaks for itself. She never explains whether being a woman helped or hurt in getting American and French men to open up to her. How does she know that black or Arabic men didn't say to her what they would expect that a white, class-privileged, French woman academic would want to hear? She never even explains why she limited her study only to men. This was unintentional men's studies. It's particularly shocking in that working-class American women, at least, often don't have the choice to not work. She never explains why she would even want to leave them out of the picture.
Just like her own last name, she writes French names in a surprising way. Lebleu without the B in upper case? Lheureux rather than L'Heureux? Maybe this is a new trend now that France is a member of the European Union.
I really enjoyed this book. In this country, almost everybody identifies with the middle class and this comes at the detriment to poor folk. Further, there is not enough writing about Arabic men in the West, particularly in English. So Lamont's study is a much-needed text. It would be fascinating to hear what French readers have to say about it.
Tedious.......2003-10-31
Like most of what passes as cultural sociology, this book is tedious and predictable. "Boundary-work" and so forth.
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Outstanding look at traditional Catholic Teaching.......2005-04-20
Genovisi, is as outstanding in this text as he is in the class room. Having taken his sexuality class in college, I can say that this text is absoulutely outstanding. If you want a look at the traditional teachings of the Catholic faith pertaining to sexuality and marriage buy this book, its one of a kind. I feel honored to have had him as a teacher, and honored to own a copy of this text, truly outstanding.
Very Good Overview.......2001-11-22
This excellent work by Genovesi highlights many of the important concerns in Catholic sexual ethics today. It is a very well-balanced book and offers the reader a wealth of interesting information. It is also easy to read, though long, and stirs up questions about how to be faithful to the Church teachings while being pastoral. I would recommend the book for someone who would like to know more detailed information on the Catholic view of Love and Sexuality and would also urge that reader to look over the various Church documents at the same time (i.e. Humanae Vitae, On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, Casti Conubii, and others).
Enlightening discussion of Catholic sexual ethics.......2001-01-05
This book adequately presents all major issues in sexual ethics and provides an illuminating discussion from the perspective of Catholic moral theology. The author gives room to all positions within the broad array of Catholic moral theologians today. As opposed to the dogmatic view of some manuals still used by seminaries and confessor, the author devotes space and energy to the discussion of moral arguments behind each moral solution. This book is very helpful to any layman or priest that wants to make sense of Catholic moral teaching in sexual matters.
Excellent resource........1999-08-07
A great resource for adults, both young and old, who are concerned with faith and living morally. Honest and straight forward, Genovesi confronts sexual issues that are sometimes difficult for the average individual to accept. His combination of theological and pyschological teachings deserves appreciation. Genovesi reveals the essentials of Love and sexual morality to those who need it the most, i.e., everyone.
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How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? How do our daily encounters with people who hold different religious beliefs shape the way we understand our own moral and spiritual selves? In Heaven's Kitchen, Courtney Bender takes a highly original approach to answering these questions. For more than a year she worked in New York City as a volunteer for a nonprofit, nonreligious organization called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare home-cooked meals for people with AIDS. Paying close attention to what was said and not said, Bender traces how the volunteers gave voice to their moral positions and religious values. She also examines how they invested their conversations, and mundane activities such as cooking, with personal meaning that in turn affected how they saw their own spiritual lives. Filled with vibrant storytelling and rich theoretical insights, Heaven's Kitchen shows faith as a living practice, reshaping our understanding of the role of religion in contemporary American life.
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Intriguing Study.......2007-08-13
What a wonderful book. Nicely written; thoughtful; and insightful. Professor Bender of Columbia University spent months observing the actions, conversations, and ideas of volunteers and workers at God's Love We Deliver in New York. What she found abounded in ironies about religion and spirituality in the everyday lives of people. Dr. Bender found that an organization with "God" in the title actually had very little overt conversation about God; Dr. Bender found that volunteers brought spiritual feelings to their work, often in the silences and quiet times of the labor. This is a fabulous book about religion in everyday life and how people make sense of their spiritual lives in various means. Recommended for all scholars of religion in America and for those interested in spirituality and volunteer organizations.
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The Holy Letter: A Study in Jewish Sexual Morality
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Interesting anachronism.......2006-06-13
This is a translation of a famed Kabbalistic letter attributed to Nachmanides (Moses ben Nachman) including a lengthy introduction describing the history of the work (1/3 of book) & an English translation side-by-side with Hebrew. The translator, former President of the Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Judaism, argues that its author was Joseph Gikatilla (vs. Avraham Feuer's translation, "A Letter for the Ages"). The Letter draws from Biblical/Talmudic sources & employs Kabbalistic ideas & terms. It addresses the purpose, nature, time, diet, intention, & quality of the sex act. It rejects Maimonides & p. 74: "the accursed Greek" Aristotle's contention that touch is shameful. Rather, p. 72: "The sexual intercourse of man with his wife is holy & pure when done properly, in the proper time & with the proper intention" & p. 92: "The sages said when a man unites with his wife in holiness, the Shekhinah is between them in the mystery of man & woman." However, p. 94: "the divine presence leaves them when the act is for sexual pleasure alone." It also says that too much sex weakens a man, late Sabbath evening is the best time, to not have sex after eating, to not overeat, & to have the bed north-south.
It has some gems of wisdom-- pp. 108-110: "The master of true wisdom knows that extremes are not prudent & the qualities of moderation are most desirable" & p. 110: "Solomon said, `be not righteous overmuch; neither make yourself otherwise" (Ecclesiastes 7:16) & Kabbalistic metaphysics-- p. 122: "When an animal is slaughtered for human consumption, it is for the animal's good, for it rises from the level of the body of an animal to the level of the body of a man." On the other hand it argues enigmatically that p. 136: "The thought of sin is more grievous than the sin itself (Yoma 29a)," & shows primitive understanding of human physiology & genetics (it WAS written in the Middle Ages) such as techniques for conceiving male children & attributing birth of a black child to white parents because the curtains in the room were black--so they thought of black during conception! Thus, it juxtaposes profound insight with superstition, & fantasy. Its anachronisms shed light on the development of knowledge & understanding, though they may seem rather quaint today.
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Spirituality and Morality: Integrating Prayer and Action
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Comments by a satisfied reader.......2007-02-03
Scholarly and credible. Be ready to spend some time with this book, and have a dictionary handy if you are not familar with the philosophy and theology of morality.
Clarity for Morality.......2004-12-22
Pinckaers very clearly and concisely shows that Christian morality is about fulfilling our longing for happiness, excellence, joy, and truth. The end is not merely to obey commandments but rather to obey commandments in order to be truly happy. The power to walk that path of obedience comes not from dry logic but from the gifts of the Holy Spirit that animate the virtues of a Christian. Most telling is Pinckaers' distinction between mere pleasure and joy as two radically different conceptions of happiness. Many of our life-changing moral decisions come down to the choice between transient, superficial pleasure that is illusory and ends in bitterness and even hatred, while true happiness is, in the words of Augustine, "joy born of the truth" (p. 77). Pinckaers describes the path of happiness that ends in lasting joy, not the path of mere pleasure ending in disappointment.
The Pursuit of Happiness.......2002-10-01
This is an introductory text of unusual depth and breadth. Father Pinckaers' thesis is that since the 14th century moral philosophy and theology have posited human freedom as primary to human nature. From this premise have come a series of "moralities of obligation" in which freedom is seen as restricted by externally imposed moral rules. Almost by definition, such a model tends to disassociate happiness from morality.
According to Pinckaers, a better, more classical, and more Thomistic approach is to consider human freedom as part of human nature, rooted in and ineradicably woven among our yearnings for the good, the beautiful, and the true. Thus the best use of our freedom is virtue, which is not only compatible with happiness but in its highest form (i.e., love) is the source of joy.
Pinckaers' analysis of the fundamental flaw of modernist ethics is penetrating and, in my view, probably correct. The concept of human nature presented here is a high one, and may strike some as too exalted. But that's the point. Catholic morality looks to humanity as it was intended to be, and as it can be when redeemed by grace.
A brief but lucid presentation.......2002-08-27
This tiny book is, apparently, a condensation of the author's more scholarly "The Sources of Christian Ethics". It is written at a level suitable for those with little or no philosophical background, though even the studied can benefit from his forthright discussion of some of the more difficult topics.
The book is divided into two parts : a survey of the sources of Christian ethics, and a proposal for renewing our moral thought by a return to the classical and mediaeval models. Thus he discusses the sources for ethical reflection in the Gospels and the other New Testament documents (notably the Sermon on the Mount), then relates how these ideas were grafted onto the Greek philosophical tradition by the mediaevel thinkers. He dwells at (comparative) length on the structure of ethics as it was conceived by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century; namely, morality is a search for human happiness and fulfillment. He then relates how this ancient ethical tradition was undermined in the late mediaeval period (it is William of Ockham who gets the lion's share of the blame), and how a new conception of Christian ethics as "ethics of obligation" came to dominate in the post-Reformation period. Finally, he discusses the impact of the Vatican II on Catholic moral reflection, in which he sees hope for a return to the ancient model.
The second part of the book is a reflection on how ethics might be reconceived in the image of Aquinas' ethics. In particular, he argues that our notion of freedom has to be fundamentally changed if we are to refound moral thought, for the dominant notion of freedom in modern times - what he calls 'freedom of indifference' - is at the root of the chaotic state of morality in western society. In opposition to the prevalent idea of freedom as the ability to choose without bias between contraries, he advocates 'freedom for excellence', which is the ability to act with excellence in whatever one chooses. His discussion of this issue is the best and clearest that I have encountered.
He goes on to a number of other topics, including the relationship of freedom and natural law, and the specifically Christian understanding of morals in relation to the Church and the work of the Holy Spirit.
I recommend this book to anyone who is discouraged with the present cacophonous state of moral discourse in terms of restrictions, rebellion, and rights; to students of intellectual history who want to better understand the nature of the break modernity has made with the Greeks and mediaevals; to those who are curious about the Catholic view of morality. Readers of Alasdair MacIntyre (who contributes the introduction to this book) and Josef Pieper should find much to enjoy.
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This pastorally oriented guide gives the viewpoints of Roman Catholic and Protestant churches to these and other crucial questions.
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Contemporary Christian Morality: Real Questions, Candid Responses.......2005-07-22
I have thoroughly enjoyed using this book for a class I am teaching. I have found the author to be a very compassionate, human man. I think if more priests taught from this book, there would be more people in the catholic church.
Good summary of comtemporary moral issues........1999-10-28
Richard Sparks presents a summary of contemporary Catholic moral theology that is both traditional and contemporary. He addresses many pressing moral issues in a way that is faithful to Catholic teaching without sounding dogmatic. He also is very ecumenical in his approach which shows the common natue of Christian Morality on most issue (with major exceptions such as birth control etc.). It is an excellent resource for anyone who wants real answers to hard questions in a user friendly format.
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Volume twelve in the always popular Readings in Moral Theology Series addresses the complex interrelationship of religion, morality and public policy from the viewpoint of the Catholic Church, and not primarily from the perspective of the First Amendment.
In keeping with the approach of the series, the editors have brought together previously published articles and chapters. To facilitate reading and further discussion, they have divided this work into four parts:
I The Legacy of John Courtney Murray
II Public Theology and the Public Square
III The Church's Public Role: U.S. Bishops and Commentators
IV Particular Issues
The editors present the full range of opinions within the Catholic Church today, allowing the reader to form his or her own judgment. Noteworthy is the dedication of this work to the late Richard A. McCormick, co-editor of the first eleven volumes.
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