Values & Ethics: From Living Room to Boardroom

by Jason A. Merchey

Values & Ethics: From Living Room to Boardroom is a compilation of interviews at the then-largest Internet-based talk radio station (and creator of podcasts), World Talk Radio. It was a weekly radio show of the same name. The approach was to invite learned and eloquent individuals who could join Jason Merchey, the founder of Values of the Wise, in dialogue on “big questions” and investigations of values, ethics, and such. Apt, insightful quotations from an array of individuals are used to support the project, which was largely about wisdom, personal growth, enlightenment, and philosophy. The handsome, 470-page books is Socratic in approach. It is at once topical and timeless in its content. It extols the power of wisdom and of learning to make one’s life better – more interesting, more profitable, more livable, more meaningful. It can also help our world if everyone – especially those who are high-placed – can think and act more wisely. It gets to what’s "real” and what matters, so important in the midst of Americans' typical hustle and bustle, hard-working, and relatively absent-minded lives. It also has the strength that it features 30 different voices (experts in their fields), and nearly 750 quotes from diverse others. As well, one can also pick it up and read a chapter in an hour; one needn't read it cover to cover because the chapters, though they do cohere, are also independent of one another. It is a humane, humanistic, high-minded, practical, erudite look at values and wisdom.

Short video introduction: https://vimeo.com/229142848

"...consistently thoughtful and engaging ...the dialogues always remain broadly accessible, avoiding the trap of overly esoteric digressions. Merchey ... is buoyantly erudite, effortlessly diving into all manners of issues. ...studded with philosophical and inspirational quotes from famous personages, is a feast for both the mind and the soul. An endlessly engrossing catalog of philosophical conversations." - Kirkus Reviews

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470 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2017

About the author

Jason Merchey is a philosophical thinker and independent scholar as well as founder of Values of the Wise. Growing up Jewish in a suburb of Los Angeles, he grappled with sociocultural, familial, religious, and psychological issues that led to much of the insight he has today. After junior college, he earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in psychology and social behavior from the University of California Irvine, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa for excellence in liberal scholarship. Jason went on to earn a master’s degree in clinical psychology from California State University Fullerton. Having moved to San Diego, he obtained thousands hours of experience counseling clients of all types. It was in that capacity that Jason became intrigued by and began to study wisdom, values, and ethics. The Values of the Wise™ website (www.ValuesoftheWise.com) and book series were born as ways to lead not only himself but also his clients to find the insight, consolation, and wisdom from great quotations representing our intellectual heritage.

Jason is now primarily an investor of real estate, equities and the like. He publishes books in the area of wisdom, ethics, personal growth, philosophy, and psychology because he feels it can be helpful to people and to society, not because he is any good at making money from it!

Say hi at www.ValuesoftheWise.com where you will find many free tools to help you live a life of value.

Reviews

[Kerry Pickens · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had just attended a philosophy discussion group, so the subject matter of this book was very familiar to me I had trouble following along with the text, and found the quotations and changes of font from bold to italics all the time very distracting. Since it is a transcript of a radio show, I somehow felt like I was eavesdropping on a conversation. I also found that the participants defined terms but they never explored the relevance of the terms to their everyday lives. I am used to Jewish sermons being prepared in this style, but there is usually some progression from the discussion of the terminology to examples how that term brought relevance to the speaker's life.