Talk with your kids : 109 conversations about ethics and things that really matter
Record details
- ISBN: 9781603763363 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1603763368 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 157912948X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781579129484 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 157912948X
- ISBN: 9781579129484
- ISBN: 9781579129484 : PAP
- ISBN: 157912948X : PAP
- ISBN: 9781579129484 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 157912948X (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
253 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
print - Publisher: New York, New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, [2012]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published by Jane Curry Publishing under the title: Ethics: 101 conversations to have with your kids. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Music downloads and stealing -- Stealing??? -- Stuck on a lifeboat -- Is stealing ever okay? -- Ethical thinker : Plato -- What is cheating at school? -- Sports -- Killing a madman -- (G-rated) parties -- Being reciprocal -- Gender relations -- World of liars -- What makes a lie? -- Is it ever okay to lie? -- Ethical thinker : Aristotle -- More lies!! -- Money, money, money, and inheritance -- Alcohol -- Smoking -- Using criteria -- Death and taxes -- Rank the criminals -- Our grandchildren and the planet -- Rights of animals -- Ethical thinkers : Hobbes and Locke -- Should we eat meat? -- Should we use animal products? -- Killing animals -- Should we cage animals? -- What is a fact? What is an opinion? -- Should we accept asylum seekers? --Bad consequences, right act? -- What is torture? -- Is torture ever okay? -- Ethical thinkers : Rousseau and Hobbes -- Torture continued -- Donating to earthquake relief -- Prejudice -- Looting after disasters -- Ethical potholes at Dudgeon High --Saving survivors and reconstructing after an earthquake -- Fate : are people morally responsible? -- Free will and life factors -- Is the old man evil? -- Ethical thinker : Immanuel Kant -- Friendship (part one) -- Killing people on a railway line -- Accepting differences -- What is bullying? -- Generalizations -- Bullying continued -- What should be done to bullies? -- Make up your own school rules -- What is cyberbullying? -- Ethical thinker : Jeremy Bentham -- Why cyberbullying is bad -- Capital punishment (the death penalty) -- Making promises -- Medical ethics and the government -- Being consistent -- Medical ethics : testing drugs on prisoners -- Medical ethics and kidney transplants -- Discrimination -- The good life pie -- Ethical thinker : John Stuart Mill -- Duty -- The cure for AIDS -- Sex -- Relationships, social standing, and body image -- Twelve lousy arguments -- Parents, children, and rules -- Declaring war on Canada -- Acting ethically in the middle of a war -- Who are we responsible to for climate change? -- Ethical thinker : Elizabeth Anscombe (and Aristotle) -- What to do about climate change -- Changing lanes on the road -- Justice at the cafeteria -- How to treat your brothers and sisters -- Being comprehensive -- Road ethics : letting people in -- Speed limits on the road -- Drugs -- Health, drugs, and young people -- Ethical thinker : John Rawls and the mind game -- A teenager's car -- When is a 'new life' a human? -- Online etiquette and age restrictions -- Housework -- Universalizing -- The terrorist attack -- Euthanasia -- Ethics in business : Zen bracelets -- Business ethics : competition -- Ethical thinker : Lawrence Kohlberg and Heinz's Dilemma -- Business ethics : staff -- Secrets -- Fighting -- Sharing -- Friendship (part two) -- How to spread stuff around (part one) -- How to spread stuff around (part two) -- Pets (part one) -- Pets (part two) -- Martin Luther King, Jr. and non-violence -- Rights and responsibilities -- Violent computer games -- Designer babies (part one)-- Designer babies (part two). |
Summary, etc.: | A collection of philosphical questions and situations to pose to your children, in order to start discussions on topics such as cyberbullying, stealing, and cheating. Designed to encourage critical thinking on subjects which may otherwise be awkward to introduce. |
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Subject: | Parenting Children Conduct of life Moral education Children Attitudes |
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