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...been a fault, the agent is not really blameworthy, because he is not responsible. And finally, it can suggest that, though there has been a fault, and though the agent is responsible, he is not really to blame because he has good reasons to do as he did." (Sissela Bok: Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life...
...Sissela Bok, a Swedish-born ethicist whose parents Gunnar and Alva Myrdal were Swedish Nobel Prize-winners, said she believed people were most impressed by Palme's "sense of utter self-evidence with which he dedicated himself to public service...
...ever doubting students needed proof that education, especially philosophy pays, even in a technological era, it can be found in the Nadav Safran case. Professor Sissela Bok had hardly left the Yard when her wise words on ethics in general and secrecy in particular were forgotten. I hear that she has been invited to return to give Moral Reasoning 24. I do not know it this is in consequence of the Satran case; whether or not it is, it should be open not only to undergraduates, but to deans and faculty, who seem also to be in need of core...
...From the very beginning she fought for equality," said Sissela Bok, Myrdal's daughter and a professor of Ethics at Brandeis University, said yesterday. She said that her mother worked for many causes but did not abandon...
Governments must encourage trust, and constrain their use of violence and deceit in order to avoid nuclear war, Sissela Bok said last night at an Institute of Politics Forum...