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Title:
Behaving badly : the new morality in politics, sex, and business / Eden Collinsworth.
Author:
Collinsworth, Eden, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2017]

©2017
Call Number:
BJ320 .C65 2017
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780385540933
Physical Description:
xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Part one. Confronting the unreliable provenance of morals. -- 1. Wherein I begin with the definition of the word -- 2. According to a convicted murderer, it has to do with character -- 3. A neuroscientist explains the evolutionary origins of morality -- 4. A brief history of mankind's attempts to rein in bad behavior -- Part two. Morality's scorecard -- 5. The editor of the "Financial Times" provides a cost-benefit analysis of principles -- 6. Instructions on how not to cheat -- 7. Pros and cons of doing the right thing -- 8. The law: tools of control, or instruments of enlightenment? -- 9. The political function of ethics -- Part three. Sex as moral provocateur -- 10. Monogamy (not so much anymore) -- 11. The screen as a siren -- 12. Testosterone: morality's enemy, as well as its hero -- 13. Immoral women: or just those having a better time? -- Part four. Taking the bother out of morality -- 14. Celebrities as standard-bearers -- 15. Reality defined -- 16. The web wonders what's so great about the truth -- 17. Ethically sanitized warfare -- 18. Immorality's black sun -- Part five. The future, or something like it -- 19. The moral vagaries of making babies -- 20. Mapping a post-gay culture -- 21. Is it progress if we barter with ethics? -- 22. Programming morality in robots (they'll show us how) -- 23. So who, exactly, gets to set the new rules? -- 24. Wherein I conclude by looking forward.
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