Rough Waters and Other Stories : Facing Ethical Dilemmas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebow, Richard Ned.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethical problems--Fiction.

Ethical problems.

Genre:

Short stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2022.

Summary:

Rough Waters and Other Stories is a collection of original stories addressing different ethical questions and dilemmas. An introduction makes connections among the stories, puts them in personal and political perspective, and anchors them in a tragic understanding of life and ethics. The characters in Rough Waters and Other Stories - some based on real historical people - must make or finesse ethical choices, some of them straight-forward, others tragic in nature. Tragic choices involve trade-offs between seemingly irreconcilable but important goals. Alternatively, they entail committing ourselves to decisions or policies whose outcomes are uncertain. We are desperate to avoid tragic choices and prone to convince ourselves - often in the face of good evidence - that we can satisfy all of our desires or needs instead of making difficult choices between or among them. We also tend to convince ourselves that our decisions or policies well succeed in proportion to the degree that we feel compelled to commit to them. A standard trope of Greek tragedy - think here of Oedipus - is that our choices sometimes lead directly to the outcomes we are trying desperately to avoid.

Contents:

Intro

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

NIXON IN HELL

SURVIVING TET

FOO FIGHTERS

PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF!

GREGOR SAMSA'S SISTER

ROUGH WATERS

LOOKING EAST

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Lebow, Richard Ned Rough Waters and Other Stories

ISBN:

9781871891386

OCLC:

1314051402