The idea of story time is music to a kid's ears, a reminder of days gone by when it was okay to leave the world behind, even if for a few minutes, to travel in the imagination. Telling stories has spanned centuries, cultures, and age groups, surviving the test of time, globalization, and technology. Whether in the form of books, movies, computer…

This study examined cross-cultural differences and similarities in children's moral understanding of individual- or collective-oriented lies and truths. Seven-, 9-, and 11-year-old Canadian and Chinese children were read stories about story characters facing moral dilemmas about whether to lie or tell the truth to help a group but harm an…

Eighteenth century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid's emphasis on first principles of knowledge is fundamental to his ethics of rhetoric. Reid found the reduction of mental activities to material phenomena by Hobbes and others to be particularly odious and destructive of common sense. Turning to the analysis of human nature, he developed a radical…

This textbook is part of a series of readers portraying people who have served their community. This volume examines morals and manners at the root of civic virtues that build good citizenship, noting that this sounds rather old fashioned, but nothing has been discovered to take its place.

Six values useful for judging the ethical problems in program evaluation are: (1) distributive justice; (2) truth seeking; (3) human dignity; (4) sharing; (5) concern for the quality of life, and (6) client loyalty. This is a comment on TM 503 780. (Author/CTM)

To help foster parents and professional workers solve some value conflicts some differences are identified between the two groups' perspectives on values. (BR)

Author examines the definition of morality and concludes that philosophical analysis and moral argument are relevant to this issue only when one cares about the well-being of others. (RW)

Discusses the concept of sacredness in counseling, and the usefulness for counselors to see life, human beings, and their clients as sacred. (BH)

A measure of moral values has been introduced which seems sufficiently promising to warrant further use in research in this area. (Author)

The programme being developed by the UUA is designed to help children and young people to discover a process, based on understandings from situation ethics, for valuing-resolving the relevance various factors have in any situation requiring one's response. (Editor)

This paper emphasizes the recognition of value communication in our educational system, stressing the need for the educated, creative person rather than the trained one. (BB)

In today's world censorship is neither practicable nor desirable. (CK)