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The right to die : legal and ethical problems / by Sloan, Irving J.(CARDINAL)144781; Sloan, Irving J.(CARDINAL)144781;
Subjects: Right to die; Right to die;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Moral decision making : how to approach everyday ethics [sound recording] / by Martin, Clancy,1967-(CARDINAL)461864; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.Lecturer: Professor Clancy Martin, University of Missouri-Kansas City.What does it mean to live a good life? If we want to live ethically, it stands to reason that our daily habits and overall goals must align themselves with a certain moral code. Is it ethical to pursue money, property, and social status? Do we have a moral obligation to give to charity, take care of our aging parents, or shop locally? Where is the line between personal freedom and societal good? Moral Decision Making: How to Approach Everyday Ethics offers you the chance to reflect on some of the most powerful moral issues we face--as well as providing a framework for making the best decisions that will lead to a happier, more fulfilling life. Over the course of 24 thought-provoking lectures, Professor Clancy Martin of the University of Missouri-Kansas City introduces us to a variety of ethical "case studies"--the kind of difficult situations we have all faced at some point--and he shows us how great thinkers, from Socrates to Nietzsche to Bonhoeffer, approached similar problems.
Subjects: Audiobooks collection; Live sound recordings.; Applied ethics.; Ethical problems.; Moral development.; Reasoning.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Strangers drowning : impossible idealism, drastic choices, and the urge to help / by MacFarquhar, Larissa,author.(CARDINAL)602219;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320)."What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of the children they already have? Another couple founds a leprosy colony in the wilderness in India, living in huts with no walls, knowing that their two small children may contract leprosy or be eaten by panthers. The children survive. But what if they hadn't? How would their parents' risk have been judged? A woman believes that if she spends money on herself, rather than donate it to buy life-saving medicine, then she's responsible for the deaths that result. She lives on a fraction of her income, but wonders: when is compromise self-indulgence and when is it essential? We honor such generosity and high ideals; but when we call people do-gooders there is skepticism in it, even hostility. Why do moral people make us uneasy? Between her stories, MacFarquhar threads a lively history of the literature, philosophy, social science, and self-help that have contributed to a deep suspicion of do-gooders in Western culture. Through its sympathetic and beautifully vivid storytelling, Strangers Drowning confronts us with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. In a world of strangers drowning in need, how much should we help, and how much can we help? Is it right to care for strangers even at the expense of those we are closest to? Moving and provocative, Strangers Drowning challenges us to think about what we value most, and why. From the Hardcover edition"--
Subjects: Altruism; Ethical problems.; Humanitarianism; Philanthropists; Virtue.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Green border / by Holland, Agnieszka,1948-directorproducerauthorFilm directorFilm producerScreenwriter(DLC)n 92122242; Altawil, Jalal,Actor(local)tlcaut1723648272446124864; Ostaszewska, Maja,1972-Actor(DLC)no2009132789; Atai, Behi Djanati,Actor(local)tlcaut1723648282165372079; Bernstein, Fred,Film producerproducer(DLC)no2012100293; Pisuk, Maciej,Screenwriterauthor(DLC)no2010022099; Vercheval, Frédéric,Composermusical director(DLC)no2015117219; Naumiuk, Tomasz,1981-Cinematographerdirector(DLC)no2017037395; Astute Films,Presenter(DLC)no2019095502; Canal+ Polska,Production company(DLC)no2010051212; Česká televize (Prague, Czech Republic),Production company(DLC)n 2002035105; Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,Production company(DLC)n 2013044056; Films Boutique (Firm),Production company(DLC)no2011141770; Kino Lorber, Inc.,Publisher(DLC)no2010180592; Marlene Films, Ltd,Production company(DLC)no2013095743; Metro International (Firm),Presenter(DLC)no2016021112; ZDF/Arte (Firm),Production company(DLC)no2011055240; Volapük (Organization),Production company(DLC)no 97039547 ;
Costume designer, Katarzyna Lewinska ; production designer, Katarzyna Jedrezejczyk ; music, Frederic Vercheval ; editor, Pavel Hrdlicka ; director of photography, Tomasz Naumiuk.Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai, Tomasz Wlosokj, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dalia Naous.Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Green Border immediately drew controversy from the Polish government for its depiction of the European migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border. Shot in stark black-and-white, this riveting thriller explores the intractable conflict from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in both countries; young guards instructed to brutally reject the migrants; and activists who, at great risk, aid the refugees.DVD, widescreen, NTSC, region 1, Dolby Audio 5.1 surround and 2.0 stereo.
Subjects: Feature films; Fiction films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Immigrants; Immigrants; Emigration and immigration; Ethical problems; Humanitarianism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Lay your armor down / by Smith, Michael F.(Michael Farris),1970-author(CARDINAL)400865;
"An old woman, riddled with dementia, walks off into the woods in the middle of the night. A light in the wood draws her to a campfire with two strange, dangerous men, one young and one old, who are there plotting a crime of as-yet-indeterminate purpose. The two men have a job to do. They are hunting something precious but have only been told: you'll know it when you see it. When they arrive at the place, an abandoned church cellar in the burned-out countryside, they find an answer they never could have predicted. Now, the job feels dubious, one that'll surely bring them to ruin. Yet if they're to go against orders, no step can be undone, and nothing can be taken back. In spare, imagistic prose, Lay Your Armor Down reduces the epic to its most elemental. It charts the course of several broken people, all outrunning danger's dark fingers, and all brought together for one last chance at redemption." --
Subjects: Gothic fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Mute persons; Dementia; Criminals; Ethical problems; Girls; Interpersonal relations;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 10
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Firewall / by Rodman, Sean,1972-author.(CARDINAL)599335;
Josh is a gamer. After his parents' divorce and his move from Chicago to a small town where he doesn't know anybody, he copes by staying up way too late playing Killswitch online. Then he discovers a "mod" version of the game that is an exact reproduction of his new town. Strange things start to happen in the game, and they are somehow connected with events in the real world."In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Josh discovers a virtual town that is eerily similar to his own."--HL580LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Moving, Household; Video games; Video game addiction; Ethical problems; School violence;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Time [videorecording] / by Arnold, Lewis(Television director),television director.; Bean, Sean,actor.(CARDINAL)344147; Finneran, Siobhan,1967-actor.(CARDINAL)849552; Graham, Stephen,1973-actor.(CARDINAL)346573; Johnston, Sue,1943-actor.; Maloney, Simon,television producer.; McGovern, Jimmy,creator,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)393483; Nelson-Joyce, James,actor.; Walters, Hannah,actor.; BBC Studios,publisher.(CARDINAL)815832; BBC Studios.Drama Productions,production company.;
Editor, Sacha Szwarc ; composer, Sarah Warne ; director of photography, Mark Wolf.Sean Bean, Stephen Graham, Siobhan Finneran, Sue Johnston, James Nelson-Joyce, Hannah WaltersOriginally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2021.Mark Cobden is a husband and father like any other. Except that he's responsible for the death of an innocent man. Tortured by visions of his victim, Mark welcomes his four-year sentence as penance for his crime. But in this brutal environment, a former teacher is an easy target for the more ruthless residents. Eric McNally is a dedicated prison officer, doing his best to protect those in his charge. And in an understaffed prison that's brimming with tension, the inmates' safety rests on a knife-edge. When a dangerous convict threatens to hurt someone Eric loves, this honest man faces an impossible choice.DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1; widescreen.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Prison television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Correctional personnel; Ethical problems; Families; Prison wardens; Prisons; Professional ethics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Strangers drowning : grappling with impossible idealism, drastic choices, and the overpowering urge to help / by MacFarquhar, Larissa,author.(CARDINAL)602219;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320).For do-gooders, it is always wartime -- The bodies of strangers -- The most oppressed of all -- Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission -- At once rational and ardent -- An accidental capability produced, in its boundless stupidity, by a biological process that is normally opposed to the expression of such a capability : the undermining of do-gooders, part one -- The humiliation of strangers -- The legacy of drunks : the undermining of do-gooders, part two -- One of those God things -- Kidneys -- Please reply to me as soon as possible -- The children of strangers -- The aspidistra is the tree of life : the undermining of do-gooders, part three -- From the point of view of the universe -- Something quite different from life."What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of the children they already have? Another couple founds a leprosy colony in the wilderness in India, living in huts with no walls, knowing that their two small children may contract leprosy or be eaten by panthers. The children survive. But what if they hadn't? How would their parents' risk have been judged? A woman believes that if she spends money on herself, rather than donate it to buy life-saving medicine, then she's responsible for the deaths that result. She lives on a fraction of her income, but wonders: when is compromise self-indulgence and when is it essential? We honor such generosity and high ideals; but when we call people do-gooders there is skepticism in it, even hostility. Why do moral people make us uneasy? Between her stories, MacFarquhar threads a lively history of the literature, philosophy, social science, and self-help that have contributed to a deep suspicion of do-gooders in Western culture. Through its sympathetic and beautifully vivid storytelling, Strangers Drowning confronts us with fundamental questions about what it means to be human. In a world of strangers drowning in need, how much should we help, and how much can we help? Is it right to care for strangers even at the expense of those we are closest to? Moving and provocative, Strangers Drowning challenges us to think about what we value most, and why."--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Altruism; Conduct of life.; Ethical problems; Humanitarianism; Philanthropists; Virtue.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Everything that follows [sound recording] / by Reilly, Meg Little,author.(CARDINAL)355106; McFadden, Amy,narrator.;
Read by Amy McFadden."Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities. Minutes become hours become days as they hesitate, caught up in their guilt and hope that their friend has somehow made it safely to shore. As valuable time passes, they find themselves deep in a moral morass with huge implications as they struggle to move forward and live with their dark secret"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Audiobooks.; Boating accidents; Drowning victims; Fear; Secrets; Ethical problems;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Everything that follows / by Reilly, Meg Little,author.(CARDINAL)355106;
"Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities. Minutes become hours become days as they hesitate, caught up in their guilt and hope that their friend has somehow made it safely to shore. As valuable time passes, they find themselves deep in a moral morass with huge implications as they struggle to move forward and live with their dark secret"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Boating accidents; Drowning victims; Fear; Secrecy; Ethical problems; Secrecy.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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