No. 289 / April 1997
How are we to live?
- Letter from this month's editor
- How are we to live?
As uncertainty abounds, so does moralizing. But it may not be helping us to live more ethically. Vanessa Baird enters the maze.
- What's your ethics?
A quiz... if you dare.
- A careful death
Thirty-year-old José wanted euthanasia. A moving report from the Netherlands by Dinyar Godrej.
- Born to be good?
Psychologist Celia Kitzinger puts morality on the couch.
- Whistleblowers
Four out spoken people who are still being punished for their honesty. Compiled by Mary Brenan.
- Lofty ideas...or just hot air?
A special on some of the world's main ethical systems.
- A disobedient woman
Under the shadow of a fatwa,Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasrin explains why she doesn't believe in toeing the line.
- The haunted house
Zygmunt Bauman is no fan of the work ethic. But what's replaced it worries him even more.
- Bare-faced cheek
Some brazen - and some more subtle - ways of making businesses more ethical. Rob Harrison examines the state of play today.
- The drowning child and the expanding circle
As our world gets smaller, our capacity to act morally increases. Peter Singer makes a powerful case for a better life.
- Letters
- Letter from Chechnya
- Update
- The NI Interview with Farid Eysack
- Reviews: including classic by Woody Guthrie
- Curiosities and the NI crossword
- Endpiece by Gordon Feller
- Country profile: St Lucia
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