Global Ethical Options: In The Tradition Of Gandhi, King, And Ikeda

by Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., George David Miller, Neelakanta Radhakrishnan

An ideal secondary school, college, and workshop text on an increasingly important issue, this is a unique workbook exploring the possibility of a new "global ethics" in 20 brief chapters, dealing with such ethical issues as self-realization, altruism, cooperation, community, and ecological integrity. Each chapter consists of eight parts: a concise definition of an ethical principle, a restatement of that definition in more popular terms, an elucidation of the principle with comments and examples, a "philosophic panorama" that synthesizes the views of various thinkers about this principle, excerpts and extrapolations from the writings of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Daisaku Ikeda, a question-posing exercise, a short bibliography, and a list of thinkers who have written on this principle.

142 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2002

About the author

In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. privately recruited Lawrence Edward Carter as a 10th grader to come to Morehouse College, King’s alma mater in Atlanta, Ga. Twenty-one years later, at Morehouse, Lawrence Carter became the founder and Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, the world’s largest religious memorial to the legacy of the great civil rights leader, whose mission is to teach, encourage, and inspire ambassadors of King’s beloved world community.

Carter has spent his career working to realize King’s vision for peace and justice through education and action, including lectures at universities and seminaries around the world. Dedicated to interfaith dialogue, Carter has spoken to Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist communities, as well as to more than eighteen Christian denominations. He is also a tenured professor of religion at Morehouse, a Baptist minister, and author of four books including A Baptist Preacher’s Buddhist Teacher: How My Interfaith Journey With Daisaku Ikeda Made Me a Better Christian and Walking Integrity: Benjamin Elijah Mays as Mentor to Martin Luther King Jr.