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Title: Moral Issues in Business (Non-InfoTrac Version) by William H. Shaw, Wadsworth Publishing ISBN: 0-534-53598-4 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 26 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: As a response to comments by "ssaber"
Comment: Well, I happen to disagree with previous comment. Not only did I like the course, I also liked the book. It wasn't an easy reading, I got to tell you. Sometimes it took more than one reading and several minutes or reflecting to figure out what the authors were talking about. But in the end it all made sense. And as a bonus the book went into great detail on philosophy, psychology, political science, and economics which I found quite helpful, since as a business major I didn't have a chance to take courses in first three subjects mentioned. The best thing, however, was, that almost a year later in packed Helsinki bar, I was able for about 15 minutes to talk about greatest German and French philosophers - all about them I learned from this book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Politically Correcting our Colleges and Universities.
Comment: It is my good fortune to be in a college program aimed at the adult learner. I had heard much about today's college atmosphere molding many of our young people into politically correct animals and was glad that type of teaching was not reaching me. Unfortunately it found me in a Business Ethics course which uses this book. Messrs Shaw and Barry, in a writing style that is very familiar to me, do a rather unethical job in an attempt to bring you around to their point of view. In the book they cite single sources with assurances that others must feel the same, use the famed, 'many have said' frame of mind, and introduce each chapter with one of societies ills, the entire purpose of which seems only to be to cast a negative light preparing the reader to dislike something that follows. In a specific example, a section on the natural right to property (p 146, 2nd paragraph) in a part of the chapter that is supposed to show the moral justifications of capitalism has a sentence that reads as follows: "Although we are no longer permitted to own other people, we are certainly free to own a variety of other things, from livestock to stock certificates, from our own home to a whole block of apartment buildings." I was so bothered by this one sentence that I had to put the book down for an hour. There were no statements on slavery in the beginning of the chapter and after looking there was nothing that would indicate a disclaimer about not being able to own people in the entire book. Yet here was a statement in a section that was supposed to show the morality of capitalism that gets shot down in the second sentence. If this were the only example of questionable writing in the book I would not have written this review. Another section that was supposed to define capitalism spent more that half the section discussing socialism. Much of this book seems to be designed to incite a person's emotions. As an adult learner it seems silly to me to attempt to coerce my viewpoint in such a manner. My open mind is better reached through logical discussion of facts and views rather than this unethical attempt to work at my underbelly. I'm insulted and disappointed by the attempt. What bothers me more is that other students not my age (33) are being influenced or coerced by material of this type in advanced learning institutions. I'm concerned that these are the types of texts and the professors that teach from them that drive children to throw tofu pies and yell 'shame on you' at officials just for eating meat.
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Title: The Elements of Moral Philosophy with Dictionary of Philosophical Terms by James Rachels ISBN: 007282574X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 17 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Becoming a Critical Thinker: A User Friendly Manual (3rd Edition) by Sherry Diestler ISBN: 0130289221 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Christian Ethics in the Workplace by Raymond L. Hilgert, James L. Truesdell, Philip H. Lochhaas ISBN: 0570052998 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti ISBN: 0312392508 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 16 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.95 |
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Title: Management with Student CD, PowerWeb, and Management Skill Booster Passcard by Luis Gomez Mejia, Luis Gomez-Mejia, David Balkin ISBN: 007287421X Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 19 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $131.35 |
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