Should you take a much-needed vacation or save money for the kids' education? Protect the endangered owl or maintain jobs for loggers? Have a heart-to-heart with a lying employee or fire him on the spot? All of us face ethical choices. Sometimes they're easy: One side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we handle the really tough "right vs. right" dilemmas, where each side has strong moral arguments and we can't do both? The author, teaches us how to think for ourselves in order to resolve ethical dilemmas ranging from the intimately personal to the broadly philosophical. Unique in its approach and rich with illustrative anecdotes updated with examples of real-world conflicts from today's political realm and from Dr. Kidder's own observations, this book is an indispensable resource for spotting, understanding, and resolving our toughest decisions.

Originally published: New York : Morrow, 1995. "Revised and completely updated"--Cover.

Preface (2009) --Preface (1995) -- Overview : The ethics of right versus right -- Right versus wrong : why ethics matters -- Ethical fitness -- Core values -- Right versus right : the nature of dilemma paradigms -- Three more dilemma paradigms -- Resolution principles -- "There's only 'ethics' ..." -- Epilogue (1995) : ethics in the twenty-first century -- Epilogue (2009) : ethics in a time of economic crisis -- Notes -- Index. Preface (2009) -- Preface (1995) -- ch. 1. Overview : The ethics of right versus right -- ch. 2. Right versus wrong : why ethics matters -- ch. 3. Ethical fitness -- ch. 4. Core values -- ch. 5. Right versus right : the nature of dilemma paradigms -- ch. 6. Three more dilemma paradigms -- ch. 7. Resolution principles -- ch. 8. "There's only 'ethics' ..." -- ch. 9. Epilogue (1995) : ethics in the twenty-first century -- ch. 10. Epilogue (2009) : ethics in a time of economic crisis -- Notes -- Index.