Instilling Ethics

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This text casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. The editor has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices today. This book offers a new way of connecting today's ethics to the great ethical sources of the past - classical, medieval, and early modern -and presents a wise and witty critique of the current practice of "professional ethics".

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This is a book that is well worth reading. Its essays are generally lively and thoughtful pieces that collectively engage with significant questions about the present state of ethics. The volume as a whole possesses coherence in raising and answering questions about the contemporary state of ethics. * Canadian Journal of Political Science *

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Norma Thompson is associate professor of political science at Yale University.