Ethics. Who Decides Now What Is Right?
Description
What values should we consider universal and worth preserving for posterity? Do we need a new paradigm of civil and global interaction, or are the best answers to current human problems still found in long-standing moral traditions - even if they are subjective and disparate? This program spotlights scholars and philosophers who explore profound questions of ethics, morality, evil, and idealism. Insight comes from moral philosopher Susan Neiman, author of Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy and Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists; South African poet Antjie Krog, recipient of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Award (2000); Canadian intellectual Charles Taylor, author of A Secular Age; Quranic scholar Nasr Abu Zayd, who left Egypt after fundamentalists declared him apostate; and others.
Runtime
25 min
Series
Subjects
- Religious institutions (185)
- Political science (297)
- Ethics (196)
- International relations (610)
- Religion and sociology (173)
- World politics (2067)
- Public policy (International law) (22)
- Political sociology (90)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2010
Database
Films on Demand
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