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Right and Wrong

How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices and build a better society

Hugh Mackay author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hachette Australia

Published:25th Apr '19

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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How can you be sure you're doing the right thing? Can some actions be legally right, yet morally wrong? What are the rights and wrongs of leaving a relationship? Are the rules different for sex? Is it always wrong to tell a lie? Why be good?

No one pretends that making moral choices is easy. In this updated edition, which includes a new prologue on the moral minefields of power and wealth, Hugh Mackay argues that because morality is all about the way we treat each other, we make our best decisions - at work, among friends, in the neighbourhood, in a marriage or a family - when we imagine how our actions might affect the wellbeing of others. Our moral choices actually help shape the kind of society we live in, for better or worse.

At a time when many of us are struggling to navigate an ever more complex world, Right & Wrong offers you the essential tools for making confident moral choices, and for deciding what's right for you and for the people around you.

Mackay writes about complex issues in a wise and deceptively simple way - Anne Deveson, Sydney Morning Herald

challenges us to face the future with more imagination and optimism - Maggie Hamilton, Good Reading

ISBN: 9780733641657

Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 26mm

Weight: 220g

320 pages