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    Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything

    By Randy Cohen and Dave Hopkins

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    About this ebook

    The New York Times Magazine's original "Ethicist" Randy Cohen helps readers locate their own internal ethical compasses as he delivers answers to life's most challenging dilemmas—timeless and contemporary alike. Organized thematically in an easy-to-navigate Q&A format, and featuring line illustrations throughout, this amusing and engaging book challenges readers to think about how they would (or should) respond when faced with everyday moral challenges, from sex and love to religion, technology, and much more. Sure to ignite brain cells and spark healthy debate, Be Good is a book to refer to again and again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateAug 10, 2012
    ISBN9781452120225
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    • 4/5
      For several years, Randy Cohen wrote a weekly ethics column that appeared in the New York Times Magazine. This book reprints selected columns, together with selected responses from readers and Cohen's own afterthoughts.The columns make for interesting reading. Moreover, they illustrate that making ethical decisions isn't the simple matter that we want it to be.
    • 3/5
      A decent, quick read but nothing special. I found his chapter intros too long but mostly enjoyed the reproduced Q&As, including the now-quaint "my friend googled someone, is that OK?" Some of his updates seemed to turn into "too long for the paper but this is my book so I'm going to rant" For the $0 it cost me on Kindle Unlimited, I can't complain
    • 4/5
      If you enjoyed Randy Cohen's "The Ethicist" column in the New York Times, you'll enjoy them collected here into a book.
    • 4/5
      Like many people must, I get some kind of pleasure that I don’t completely understand from reading advice columns, and the New York Times Magazine’s The Ethicist has long been one of my favorites. Answers are opinionated but based on reason usually balanced by common sense, so they are not so much dictates as starting points for further thought or lively discussions around the breakfast table. Randy Cohen was the original Ethicist and he held that job for 12 years, but I never knew his background which includes writing for late night TV, an interesting prerequisite. Here he opines on numerous issues, including some of my favorite conundrums--questions of animal rights, the proper response to athletes using performance enhancing drugs, and how to balance respect for other cultures with support of human rights tenets that those cultures don’t abide by. In some of the more interesting sections he writes about some of the general principles behind ethics itself. People are not crudely divided into honest and dishonest, he says, different circumstances elicit different behaviors in all, meaning among other things that we should not test people by tempting them to stray. Examining smaller issues of ethics is a way to learn something about a culture by looking at its unguarded moments and as individuals we should avoid even nominal ethical lapses because they can have a coarsening effect on our awareness and judgments.This is not the kind of book you’d want to read straight through, but since it’s full of short queries and responses it’s perfect when time is limited or when the reader is likely to be interrupted. I read an advanced review copy of this book.