Ethical communication [electronic book] : moral stances in human dialogue / edited by Clifford G. Christians and John C. Merrill.

Contributor(s): Christians, Clifford G [editor] | Merrill, John Calhoun, 1924-2012 [editor].

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BookPublisher: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2009]Description: online resource (vii, 221 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780826218391 (paperback); 0826218393 (paperback); 9780826218469 (paperback); 0826218466 (paperback).Subject(s): Conduct of life

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Contents:

Introduction / Clifford G. Christians and John C. Merrill -- The altruistic stance: loyalty to others -- Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama: universal compassion / John C. Merril -- Jesu : loving neighbors / Mary Hulst -- John Stuart Mill: utilitarianism / Raphael Cohen-Almagor -- Carol Gilligan: ethics of care / Lee Wilkins -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: ethics of personalism / William Babcock -- Mother Teresa: the ethics of sacrifice / Janice Hume -- The egoistic stance: loyalty to self -- Aristotle: self-development / Lee Anne Peck -- Friedrich Nietzsche: becoming an ubermensch / Clifford G. Christians -- Machiavelli: pragmatic realism / John C. Merrill -- Camus: the rebellious spirit / David J. Gunkel -- Kautilya of India: social egoism / John C. Merrill -- Ayn Rand: rational self-interest / John C. Merrill -- The autonomy stance: loyalty to freedom -- Henry David Thoreau: value of solitude / Stephanie Craft -- John Locke: natural rights / Patrick Lee Plaisance -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: courage versus authority / Ronald C. Arnett -- Paulo Freire: face saving and communication / Ronald C. Arnett -- Hannah Arendt: public as authority / Maurine Beasley -- The legalist stance: loyalty to authority -- Plato: elite norms / Lee Anne Peck -- Muhammad: honor centered morality / Mohammad A. Siddiqi -- Immanuel Kant: importance of duty / Lee Anne Peck -- Moses: deontological norms / William Babcock -- Thomas Hobbes: the ethics of social order / Stephen J.A. Ward -- The communitarian stance: loyalty to the community -- Confucius: ethics of character / Virginia Whitehouse -- Mohandas Gandhi: fellowship of power / Lee Wilkins -- Karl Marx: transcending alienation / Jon Bekken -- John Dewey: democratic conversation / Lee Wilkins -- Jurgen Habermas: consensus and citizenship / David S. Allen -- Emmanuel Levinas: priority of the other / Ronald C. Arnett.

Summary: "Communication ethics are approached from five perspectives--altruistic, egotistic, autonomous, legalist, and communitarian--in essays examining the thought of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to the Dalai Lama. Each profile provides insight into how important ethical concepts can help the modern communicator"--Provided by publisher.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Proponents of professional ethics recognize the importance of theory but also know that the field of ethics is best understood through real-world applications. This book introduces students and practitioners to important ethical concepts through the lives of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to Ayn Rand, John Stuart Mill to the Dalai Lama.

Some two dozen contributors approach media ethics from five perspectives--altruistic, egoistic, autonomous, legalist, and communitarian--and use real people as examples to convey ethical concepts as something more than mere abstractions. Readers see how Confucius represents group loyalty; Gandhi, nonviolent action; Mother Teresa, the spirit of sacrifice. Each profile provides biographical material, the individual's basic ethical position and contribution, and insight into how his or her moral teachings can help the modern communicator. The roster of thinkers is gender inclusive, ethnically diverse, and spans a broad range of time and geography to challenge the misperception that moral theory is dominated by Western males.

These profiles challenge us not to give up on moral thinking in our day but to take seriously the abundance of good ideas in ethics that the human race provides. They speak to real-life struggles by applying to such trials the lasting quality of foundational thought. Many of the root values to which they appeal are cross-cultural, even universal.

Exemplifying these five ethical perspectives through more than two dozen mentors provides today's communicators with a solid grounding of key ideas for improving discussion and attaining social progress in their lives and work. These profiles convey the diversity of means to personal and social betterment through worthwhile ideas that truly make ethics come alive.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Communication ethics are approached from five perspectives--altruistic, egotistic, autonomous, legalist, and communitarian--in essays examining the thought of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to the Dalai Lama. Each profile provides insight into how important ethical concepts can help the modern communicator"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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CHOICE Review

In Ethical Communication Christians and Merrill offer a collection of articles that provide a comprehensive and manageable account of the ways philosophy, ethics specifically, might be applied to the practice and discipline of communication. Written primarily by practitioners, this collection offers an impressive range of applications and a nontraditional list of suspects. For example, in the section titled "The Altruistic Stance," Jesus and the Dalai Lama make an appearance along with essays inspired by the work of John Stuart Mill and Carol Gilligan. This is not, however, an eclectic grouping through and through. Although Ethical Communication goes light on the ethics--perhaps intentionally--it does provide students of communication with a relatively straightforward, albeit superficial, introduction to the way substantive ethical ideas might be applied in their discipline. As such, this volume would be quite useful for undergraduate students, and should be considered as a text for class offerings in departments of communication. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers. M. A. Martinez-Saenz Wittenberg University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Clifford G. Christians is Research Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his books include Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning , now in it eighth edition. John C. Merrill is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and author or editor of more than two dozen books including most recently Media, Mission, and Morality .