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| 19 January 2005 |
| 1. ACTON COMMENTARY |
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“Business Ethics and a Return to the Core Questions” by Rev.
Gerald Zandstra
Rev. Gerald Zandstra examines the impact of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 in the few years following its
enactment. “The days of ‘value-less’ ethics education are
over,” he declares. “The all-too-common method of presenting
case studies without examining the rightness or wrongness of
possible solutions is no longer adequate.”
Read more »Acton Web Poll: Should
businesses provide ethics training for employees?
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“Truth: The Indispensable Precondition of Business” by Prof.
Maximilian B. Torres
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In the first of a three-part series, Prof. Maximilian B.
Torres, winner of the 2003 Novak Award, presents a case for
viewing business activity “as ethical or unethical in
consequence of its conformance or non-conformance to truth.”
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| 2. THIS WEEK AT ACTON |
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Research fellow Anthony Bradley
wrote an op-ed for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
“We’ll be adrift until we reclaim morals, dignity”
(January 17).Jordan J. Ballor, associate editor, authored
a piece about the aftermath of the tsunami and the reaction of
ecumenical leaders in The Jakarta Post, an
Indonesia-based English-language newspaper,
“Tsunami and ecumenical disaster”
(January 12). Ballor also was a guest on FrontPage Impact
News, a production of the CDR Radio Network,
“Global Warming and Tsunamis”
(January 13).
Samuel Gregg, director of research, wrote a column which was
published in The Catholic Weekly, the newspaper of the
Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia,
“Now, the new fundamentalism”
(January 9).
Rocco Buttiglione, a
member of the Acton Institute’s Board of Advisors, continues to
make headlines throughout Europe. His activities are featured in
recent articles in
Catholic World News, the
National Catholic Reporter, and
Zenit News Agency.
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| 4. FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM ACROSS THE WEB |
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“Acorns and Embryos” by Robert P. George and Patrick Lee, The
New Atlantis
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“Human beings may be severely
afflicted at any developmental stage, from the embryonic to the
adult. All of us will eventually die, and many of us will die as
a result of factors in our genetic makeup from the point at
which we came into being. From the moral viewpoint, the
certainty of death – whether in ninety years or nine minutes –
does not alter our inherent dignity or relieve others of the
obligation to respect our lives.” |
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“Why the ‘Lost Gospels’ lost out” by Ben Witherington III,
Christianity Today
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Recent gadfly theories about church
council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into
existence are bad–really bad–history. |
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| 5. THIS WEEK AT THE ACTON BOOKSHOPPE |
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Ethics and Economics: Graduate Essays on the Moral Foundation of
Political Economy by Schall, Hochschild, Calo, Barlow,
Black, Mattie
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Winning essays from the 1998 Lord Acton Essay
Contest, with an introduction by James V. Schall, S.J. Essays
include: The Moral Foundation of Political Economy by Joshua P.
Hochschild; The Kingdom of Man in America: Economic Freedom and
Prosperity in Moral and Theological Perspective by Zachary R.
Calo; The Moral Foundation of Civilization: Appetite or Duty? by
Jonathan Barlow; Deep Moral Foundation: The Keys to Stable and
Prosperous Political Economies by Michael Black; The Moral
Personality of Economics by Sean Mattie. |
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