Why It's Hard To Be Good

by Al Gini

Book Overview

It isn't easy to be good. In fact, it's very, very difficult. Al Gini - at home both in philosophy and the corporate boardroom - speaks here in an engagingly direct voice about why we have so much trouble doing the right thing in life - at home, with family or strangers, and at work. Businesses struggle with ethical issues every day, and so do ordinary people. But a multinational corporation and a single thinking human being are bound together by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415960622
• ISBN13: 9780415960625
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A Great Book on Being Good

Professor Gini has written an excellent book describing the difficulties and the importance of being good. The problem is that we are easily consumed with ourselves: our own wants and our own desires. Once we become consumed with ourselves, we begin to seek our own desires at the expense of other people. If we have to run over others to fulfill our own desires, so be it. Gini provides a good explanation as to why we tend to be so narcissistic. What is great about "Why It's Hard To Be Good" is that it provides a way out of our narcissistic tendencies. Ethics is always about how we treat others. What truly gives fulfillment to our lives is being in a caring community. Indeed, it is never easy to do the right thing, and we all make mistakes, but the point is that ethics is always concerned with others. The ability to see beyond our own desires and to be open to the needs and desires of others is the challenge posed by ethics. "Why It's Hard To Be Good" is relatively short, but far from superficial. Gini added many real life ethical dilemmas, making the book even more interesting and challenging. Highly recommended. [...]