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Right and Wrong: How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices and build a better society
Hugh Mackay
Prose: non-fiction, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Social theory, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Social, group or collective psychology, The self, ego, identity, personality, Self-help & personal development, Popular psychology
At a time when many of us are struggling to navigate an ever more complex world, this new edition of Right & Wrong offers you the essential tools to make confident moral decisions and includes a new prologue.
How can you be sure you're doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong? What are the rights and wrongs of leaving a relationship? Are the rules different for sex? Is it always wrong to tell a lie? Why be good?
No one pretends that making moral choices is easy. In this updated edition, which includes a new prologue on the moral minefields of power and wealth, Hugh Mackay argues that because morality is all about the way we treat each other, we make our best decisions - at work, among friends, in the neighbourhood, in a marriage or a family - when we imagine how our actions might affect the wellbeing of others. Our moral choices actually help shape the kind of society we live in, for better or worse.
At a time when many of us are struggling to navigate an ever more complex world, Right & Wrong offers you the essential tools for making confident moral choices, and for deciding what's right for you and for the people around you.
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Praise for Right and Wrong: How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices and build a better society
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Mackay writes about complex issues in a wise and deceptively simple way - Anne Deveson, Sydney Morning Herald
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challenges us to face the future with more imagination and optimism - Maggie Hamilton, Good Reading
Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay is the author of three previous novels, Little Lies (1996), House Guest (1997) and The Spin (1999). Hugh is a psychologist and highly regarded social commentator. He writes a weekly column for the Sydney Morning Herald, Age and West Australian and is the author of three best-selling books in the field of social psychology: Reinventing Australia (1993), The Good Listener (1994) and Generations (1997). He lives in Sydney.
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