Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of the nation's soul, the impulse was collective from the start. Our so-called Protestant ethic would appear to endorse rugged individualism as the engine of hard work, but in fact the Puritan fathers were mainly concerned with individuals as contributors to a social compact. From John Cotton's The Way of Life (1641): "If thou beest a man that lives without a calling, though thou hast two thousands to spend, yet if thou hast no calling, tending to publique good, thou art an uncleane beast." From John Winthrop (1630), the first American...
...spirit while Moon wants to redeem the whole man; to exalt his material side as well as his spiritual. This is why the Church encourages its members to found businesses and to give generously to the Church--actually just another version of the American Protestant work and tithe ethic...
Author Paul Sagawa '85, who co-wrote the script with Peter A. Miller '85 says it "looks at the Salem witch trials and takes jabs at "The Crucible," Nathaniel Hawthorne's books and the Puritan work ethic...
Gilligan's research reveals that while men tend to make decisions based on concern for rules, justice and individual rights, women's moral decisions more often are relative to the situation and place a greater emphasis on an ethic of care and on the preservation of relationships...
Gilligan, who is 46, argues that these stages don't fairly represent the ethic of care and responsibility that she has found in her interviews with girls and women. "Women just don't fit the schemes." Gilligan says, adding, "rather than finding problems in female development. I find problems in the schemes...