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...country is struggling with the legacy of those unsettling years. Experts in a broad spectrum of professions say America is currently in an ethical vacuum, searching for a new code to replace the tattered shreds of post-World War II moralism. Technological improvements have created a national culture, bound together by a communications network. But America has yet to find a new national ethic to keep pace with the development of this media culture...
Others cite the University's lack of tenured ethic experts as a sign of Harvard's lack of commitment. "[Their denial of tenure] surely seems to leave us with some serious questions as toward the seriousness and competency of the Harvard Business School in establishing such a program," said W. Michael Hoffman, director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College...
...this optimistic solution does no more than lay bare the marrow of the problem, namely, the nature of people's wants. If Americans wish to strike a truer ethical balance, they may need to re-examine the values that society so seductively parades before them: a top job, political power, sexual allure, a penthouse or lakefront spread, a killing on the market. The real challenge would then become a redefinition of wants so that they serve society as well as self, defining a single ethic that guides means while it also achieves rightful ends...
...picture of femininity Greaves and Rader offer up to us is, ironically, the very patriarchal male ideal they claim to reject--always strong, independent, needing no one. Greaves and Rader have bought the dominatnt culture's male ethic wholesale, asking for nothing more than a chance for women to become what men have always been told to be. In fact, true liberation for women and men will only be a reality when all of us realize that the whole, healthy human person is able to need and be needed without becoming either an oppressor or the forgotten and self-effeacing...
...Arne has a tremendous work ethic and a tremendous love for the game," Roby continued, "and it's worn off on our kids. He's given us tremendous leadership and set a fine example...