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020			_a9781441149862 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9781847063472
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035			_a(Au-PeEL)EBL5309777
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050		4	_aBJ1419.K56 2008
082	0		_a170/.44
100	1		_aKing, Iain.
245	1	0	_aHow to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time : _bSolving the Riddle of Right and Wrong.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing Plc, _c2008.
264		4	_c©2008.
300			_a1 online resource (256 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part I - The Problem: We Need to Make Decisions, But We Don't Know How -- 1 Five Challenges to the Formula of Right and Wrong -- 2 Desperately Seeking a System -- 3 Unreliable Advice from Religion and Dice -- 4 The Enlightenment Decision-Making Machine: Do Whatever Is Best . . . -- 5 . . . Does Not Seem Best -- 6 Can We Fix It? The Pieces of the Puzzle -- Part II - The Proof: Finding the Basis of Right and Wrong -- 7 The Meaning of Life -- 8 A Plan for Robinson Crusoe -- 9 Answering an 8-Year-Old Who Incessantly Asks 'Why?' -- 10 I Say This, You Say That - Can We Ever Know Who's Right? -- 11 Applying the Sherlock Holmes Method -- 12 How to Become a Better Person (and Answer Aristotle) -- 13 The Help Principle -- 14 The DNA of Right and Wrong -- Part III - The Principle: Refining the Help Principle -- 15 Putting the DNA in a Petri Dish -- 16 Using Your Watch to Tell Right from Wrong -- 17 Letting People Choose for Themselves -- 18 Torturers and Charitable Show-Offs -- 19 Revenge, Reciprocity and Received Wisdom -- 20 What if You Didn't Mean to Do It? -- 21 The New Ladder to Humility -- 22 The First Nine Principles of Right and Wrong -- Part IV - The Programme: Extending the Principles to Other Problems -- 23 The Myth of Blame -- 24 Punishment, Mercy and Remorse -- 25 Something Funny about Promises -- 26 A Credible Rule on Lying and the Richard Nixon Problem -- 27 Rules for Romance and Sex -- 28 How to Choose in Small Groups -- 29 How to Choose in Large Groups -- 30 The System for Making Decisions -- 31 The Riddle Answered? -- Part V - Practical Advice: For Real People in the Modern World -- 32 So Why Aren't People Good, Then? -- 33 Why People Hate Lawyers -- 34 When It's Best to Be Bad -- 35 The Live Aid Problem: Does Charity Begin at Home?.
505	8		_a36 The Mother Teresa Quandary: Can You Be Good without Giving Everything Away? -- 37 The Man on the Morning Train -- 38 How to Lead a Good Life in a Rough World -- Part VI - The Prognosis: How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time -- 39 Newton's Limits -- 40 What to Do and Why -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aDecision making-Moral and ethical aspects.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aKing, Iain _tHow to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time _dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2008 _z9781847063472
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5309777 _zClick to View
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