Grim, Patrick.
Summary: Philosophical examination of the wide range of decisions all of us encounter in pursuing our lives. Professor Grim places the accent on individual choice covering questions about evolution and ethics, about whether punishment is justified by retribution or by deterrence and about the differing lessons drawn from life's worst horrors by both religious and anti-religious traditions.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 170 GRI Part 1 of 2Call number: CD 170 GRI Part 2 of 2
Sandel, Michael J.
Summary: Popular Harvard professor Michael Sandel offers a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice that considers familiar controversies such as affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, patriotism and dissent, and the moral limits of markets in fresh and illuminating ways.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 172.2 SANHarris, Sam
Summary: Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 171.2 HARDalai Lama XIV
Summary: A follow-up to the best-selling "Ethics for a new millennium" outlines a system of secular ethics that both transcends religion and incorporates religious tolerance for the overall improvement of human life on individual, community and global levels, offering an accompanying guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011