From the Director
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| Dr. Daniel E. Wueste |
Fools, knaves, and us
Listening to voices in the public square, it might seem an
unavoidable conclusion that there are only three sorts of persons: fools,
knaves and us, the last being the group to which we belong, which consists of
all and only “constitutionally questioning and critical”[1]
persons whose being such could only be doubted by a fool or a knave.
There are, I suspect, many reasons for this sorry state of
affairs. One reason, cited by many, is a
new media landscape in which consumers of news and commentary find it not only
comfortable but also very easy to hear only the voices of persons with whom
they agree; voices that, as it happens, enthusiastically accept the
responsibility of keeping their audiences up to date on what the fools and
knaves are up to. The general phenomenon
—thinking in terms of an “us” and a “them” (the fools and knaves)— is not new,
of course. So, the explanatory force of
this reason is in fact narrow: it helps to explain the extent or greater intensity
of the phenomenon, but not its source.
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Ethics and Leadership: An Executive’s Perspective – Trevor Gordon
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| Trevor Gordon |
From Another Member of the Rutland Ethics Alliance...
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| Jennifer L. Mallory |
2013 Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl
Infusing Science with Ethics
Read it here. Read more...
Rutland Institute for Ethics Welcomes Its Newest Rutland Fellow
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| Dr. Brenden Kendall |
To learn more about Dr. Kendall, click
here and scroll down to his name.
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Ethics Challenges and Responses
The following four articles came from LinkedIn postings or
discussion pages. If you haven’t taken advantage of the many things that
LinkedIn affords you, you may want to consider signing up – or getting to know
it better if you already have an account.
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Thank You REA Members
With another year nearly gone and a new one quickly
approaching, we wish to give special recognition to this academic year’s
Rutland Ethics Alliance Members. Without you, we could not offer some of the
programs or perform additional outreach and branding. THANK YOU! And best
wishes to all readers for a happy, healthy and successful 2014!
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To Close out 2013...
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| Linda Gallicchio |
This last article caught
my eye and the message was even better than I’d hoped. Consider this a gift to
close out 2013. As you create your 2014 list of things you plan to accomplish, I
hope that it will include acknowledging some failures. Then they can begin to
fade away and you can move on to more successes – and failures – on the journey
we call life.
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