A librarian's reaction to the U. S. Senate's rejection of the report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. (Author)

Keynote Address delivered at the ACEI Study Conference, Houston, Texas, April 7, 1969. (JF)

A book that concerns moral development and moral education is reviewed. (DB)

A test (with answers and an evaluation) directed to school administrators. (RG)

Four areas of ethical concern are voiced in the training of parents of handicapped children: (1) selection of program goals, (2) problems involved with both positive reinforcement and punishment, (3) conflicts between experimentation and therapeutic intervention, and (4) level of parent training. Consideration of ethical issues at each step of…

Differences in moral development (as conceived by Kohlberg) were examined in a sample of delinquent teenagers. The repeater group was not found, as had been hypothesized, to be lower on moral maturity than those who engaged in less delinquency. (GC)

Asserts that the resources available for teaching values through the humanities are unlimited and offers specific examples of suitable works. (Author/WD)

Over the past several decades, increased attention has been given to ethics in the preparation of counselors and psychologists. With that increase comes a number of voices calling for exposure to and integration of not only moral philosophy but other areas of philosophy to enhance understanding and provide a foundation for counseling practice. The…

Discusses reaction to research findings published in a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA) which concluded that classifying sexual behavior between adults and children as abuse merely because it is considered illegal or immoral, even in the absence of harm, is not scientifically valid. Notes the APA's stand on the study's…

In his article in the current issue of Death Studies, "Can Suicide be a Good Death?" David Lester argues that each person should determine whether suicide is appropriate for him or her in relative isolation from the opinions of others. In the present article, I use a utilitarian ethical perspective to critique this assertion. According to…

There has been a trend in contemporary ethics to believe that a morally admirable agent would feel negative self-assessing emotions following even the best possible choice in a moral dilemma. A commonly held reason for holding this position is that agents who are well-brought up are trained to feel negative self-assessing emotions when they do…