Taking Ethics Seriously

Preface

This book takes ethics seriously. It recognizes that ethics is an indispensable tool for the modern workplace, no less important to an organization than technology or finance. We need ethics not to decide who is good or bad, but to build social infrastructure that, like physical infrastructure, is vital to getting anything done. Simplistic platitudes cannot accomplish this. Only a sophisticated and subtle intellectual framework can guide us through the complexities of today’s world. The book develops such a framework and equips you to use it.

The book develops the concepts and skills you need to analyze an ethical dilemma, come to a rational conclusion, and defend it convincingly. In so doing, it provides a basis for developing ethical ...