An ethical compass
Subtitle: coming of age in the 21st century : the ethics prize of the Elie Wiesel foundation for humanity
By: preface by Elie Wiesel ; foreword by Thomas L. Friedman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300169157
Subjects: Modern Ethics
Description: In 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over "the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world." Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, created the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. A project at the heart of the Foundation's mission is its Ethics Prize, an essay writing contest through which thousands of students from colleges across the country are encouraged to confront ethical issues of personal significance. The Ethics Prize has grown exponentially over the past twenty years. "Of all the projects our Foundation has been involved in, none has been more exciting than this opportunity to inspire young students to examine the ethical aspect of what they have learned in their personal lives and from their teachers in the classroom," writes Elie Wiesel. Readers will find essays on Bosnia, the genocide in Rwanda, sweatshops and globalization, and the political obligations of the mothers of Argentina's Disappeared. Other essays tell of a white student who joins a black gospel choir, a young woman who learns to share in Ladakh, and the outsize implications of reporting on something as small as a cracked windshield. Readers will be fascinated by the ways in which essays on conflict, conscience, memory, illness (Rachel Maddow's essay on AIDS appears), and God overlap and resonate with one another.  These essays reflect those who are "sensitive to the sufferings and defects that confront a society yearning for guidance and eager to hear ethical voices," writes Elie Wiesel. "And they are a beacon for what our schools must realize as an essential component of a true education."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Thomas L. Friedman; title: Preface / Elie Wiesel; title: ON CONFLICT; title: The Ethics of South African Identity / Magogodi Makhene; title: Deaths in Paradise; title: Genocide and the Limits of Imagination in Rwanda / James D. Long IV; title: One February Morning / Tamara Duker; title: Black and White in the Land of Israel/Palestine; title: Toward an Ethic of Care / Jonathan D. Springer; title: The Bosnian Women / Sami F. Halabi; title: Of Borders, Infidels, and the Ethic of Love / Kim Kupperman; title: Justice; title: -For Whom?; title: Reflections on the Persian Gulf War / Thomas Murphy; title: ON MEMORY; title: In Times of Darkness; title: The Responsibility of the Individual / Courtney Brkic; title: The Secret of Redemption; title: Memory and Resistance / Alexa R. Kolbi-Molinas; title: Memory, Loss, and Revitalizing Democracy; title: The Mothers of Plaza del Mayo / Tracy Ke; title: Toward a Civil Society; title: Memory, History, and the Enola Gay / Andrea Useem; title: ON CONSCIENCE; title: Tatyana's Glory / Aleksandr Senderovich; title: Made by Us; title: Young Women, Sweatshops, and the Ethics of Globalization / Sarah Stillman; title: The Mask; title: The Loss of Moral Conscience and Personal Responsibility / Kimlyn Bender; title: Choices and Challenges; title: Issues of Conscience in Jewish Literature / Amy Jessica Rosenzweig; title: Public Sins and Private Needs / Peggy Brophy; title: ON GOD; title: The Duty of Cock-Eyed Angels / Zohar Atkins; title: God in Our Ethics / Mae Gibson; title: Muhammad Is Not / Alamdar Murtaza; title: Raising the Shield of the First Amendment / Rebecca Shelton.