An Ethical Compass: Coming of Age in the 21st Century

Published by Yale University Press 2010

An Ethical Compass

Coming of Age in the 21st Century

With contributions by: Elie Wiesel
Preface by: Thomas L. Friedman

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300171617

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In 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world.” Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. A project at the heart of the Foundation’s mission is its Ethics Prizea remarkable essay-writing contest through which thousands of students from colleges across the country are encouraged to confront ethical issues of personal significance. The Ethics Prize has grown exponentially over the past twenty years.

Of all the projects our Foundation has been involved in, none has been more exciting than this opportunity to inspire young students to examine the ethical aspect of what they have learned in their personal lives and from their teachers in the classroom,” writes Elie Wiesel. Readers will find essays on Bosnia, the genocide in Rwanda, sweatshops and globalization, and the political obligations of the mothers of Argentina’s Disappeared. Other essays tell of a white student who joins a black gospel choir, a young woman who learns to share in Ladakh, and the outsize implications of reporting on something as small as a cracked windshield. Readers will be fascinated by the ways in which essays on conflict, conscience, memory, illness (Rachel Maddow’s essay on AIDS appears), and God overlap and resonate with one another.

These essays reflect those who are sensitive to the sufferings and defects that confront a society yearning for guidance and eager to hear ethical voices,” writes Elie Wiesel. And they are a beacon for what our schools must realize as an essential component of a true education.”

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Elie Wiesel is the author of more than forty books, including the internationally acclaimed memoir Night. He is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace and teaches at Boston University.Thomas Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning jo

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Thomas L. Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Preface Elie Wiesel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Marion Wiesel and Elie Wiesel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
On Conflict
The Ethics of South African Identity Magogodi Makhene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Deaths in Paradise Genocide and the Limits of Imagination in Rwanda James D. Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
One February Morning Tamara Duker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Black and White in the Land of Israel/Palestine Toward an Ethic of Care Jonathan D. Springer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
The Bosnian Women Sami F. Halabi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Of Borders, Infidels, and the Ethic of Love Kim Kupperman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Justice—For Whom? Reflections on the Persian Gulf War Thomas Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
On Memory
In Times of Darkness The Responsibility of the Individual Courtney Brkic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The Secret of Redemption Memory and Resistance Alexa R. Kolbi-Molinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Memory, Loss, and Revitalizing Democracy The Mothers of Plaza del Mayo Tracy Ke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Toward a Civil Society Memory, History, and the Enola Gay Andrea Useem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
On Conscience
Tatyana’s Glory Aleksandr Senderovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Made by Us Young Women, Sweatshops, and the Ethics of Globalization Sarah Stillman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
The Mask The Loss of Moral Conscience and Personal Responsibility Kimlyn Bender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Choices and Challenges Issues of Conscience in Jewish Literature Amy Jessica Rosenzweig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Public Sins and Private Needs Peggy Brophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Ethics Through a Cracked Windshield Mark Reeder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
On Education
Bridges Allison Handler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Forty-three Cents Learning to Share in Ladakh Leslie Barnard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
The Ethics of Transformation Courtney Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Who Killed Superman? Jendi B. Reiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Ethics Education Toward a More Moral Society Karen Ho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
On Illness
Tearing Down the Lazaretto Win Travossos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Identifiable Lives AIDS and the Response to Dehumanization Rachel Maddow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Their Lives in Our Hands Fulfilling Our Ethical Obligations to the Terminally Ill Enrolling in Research Studies Laura Overland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Suicide and Public Speaking Kelly A. Daley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
On God
The Duty of Cock-Eyed Angels Zohar Atkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
God in Our Ethics Mae Gibson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Muhammad Is Not Alamdar Murtaza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
Raising the Shield of the First Amendment Rebecca Shelton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Winners of the Ethics Prize Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 400

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Published: November 9, 2010
ISBN: 9780300171617