Doing the Right Thing: Making Moral Choices In A World Full Of Options

by Scott B. Rae

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2013

Overview

Scott B. Rae says that our culture is in an ethical mess because we’ve neglected moral training and education. In Doing the Right Thing, he argues that there is such a thing as moral truth, that it can be known, and that it can be put into practice.

Looking at the areas of medicine, the marketplace, public life, education, and the family, Rae shows how foundational ethical principles can guide you in making moral day-to-day decisions. Informed by Scripture and calling for a renewed understanding of the importance of the Christian faith in moral training, Doing the Right Thing issues a call for cultivated virtue that can bring about both better lives and a better society.

Key Features

• Emphasizes the importance of moral training and education
• Argues for the existence and importance of moral truth
• Constructs a Christian ethical system
• Shows how foundational moral principles can be applied in everyday life

Contents

• We’re in an Ethical Mess!
• Is There a Moral Law I Can Know?
• If We Know What’s Right, Can We Do It?
• What Does It Mean to Be Human?
• Ethics in the Marketplace
• Ethics in Public Life

Top Highlights

“A third critical element in cultivating virtue is the practice of repentance” (Page 76)

“A fourth way our culture attempts to foster virtue is by urging us to look inside ourselves.” (Page 73)

“Truth is, to put it simply, correspondence to reality” (Page 43)

“A third strategy of the culture to produce good people is education” (Page 73)

“A third element a Christian worldview provides for virtue is the most important. Christian faith takes our fallen nature very seriously, and it is not assumed that if you know the right thing to do that you will do it.” (Page 80)

Product Details

• Title: Doing the Right Thing: Making Moral Choices in a World Full of Options
• Author: Scott B. Rae
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 192
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian ethics; Christian life
• ISBNs: 9780310524410, 0310524415
• Resource ID: LLS:9780310514008
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-02T23:45:07Z

About Scott B. Rae

Scott Rae's primary interests are medical ethics and business ethics, dealing with the application of Christian ethics to medicine and the marketplace. He has authored 10 books in ethics including The Ethics of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood; Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics; Brave New Families: Biblical Ethics and Reproductive Technologies; Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics; and Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. His work has appeared in The Linacre Quarterly, Religion and Liberty, Journal of Markets and Morality, Southern California Journal of Law and Women's Studies, National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and Ethics and Medicine. He is a consultant for ethics for four Southern California hospitals. He is a fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and a fellow of the Wilberforce Forum.