{"id":813,"date":"2010-09-08T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-09-08T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:44:14","slug":"why-it-is-good-to-be-good-ask-john-riker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/09\/08\/why-it-is-good-to-be-good-ask-john-riker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it is Good to be Good? Ask John Riker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/09\/GoodGood.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"817\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/09\/08\/why-it-is-good-to-be-good-ask-john-riker\/goodgood\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/09\/GoodGood.jpg?fit=400%2C610&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,610\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GoodGood\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/09\/GoodGood.jpg?fit=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/09\/GoodGood.jpg?fit=400%2C610&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-817\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/09\/GoodGood-196x300.jpg?resize=196%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/09\/GoodGood.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2010\/09\/GoodGood.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>John Riker, CC professor of philosophy, has published a new book that looks at ethics and moral issues.<\/p>\n<p>Yet talk about irony: He says there were many obstacles in the writing of \u201cWhy it is Good to be Good,\u201d including the fact that his computer and all the backups were stolen just as he completed the first draft.<\/p>\n<p>In the book, Riker shows how modernity\u2019s reigning concept of the self undermines moral life and lays the basis for the epidemic of cheating that is devastating social and economic institutions. The aim of the book is to provide a compelling answer to the question of why persons living in modern society should want to adopt an ethical way of being in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Riker says \u201cWhy it is Good to be Good\u201d is written for an intelligent lay audience and should be of interest in a world \u201cin which a few too many people think that it is in their best interest to cheat if they don&#8217;t get caught.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book has just been released by Jason Aronson, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the book I have been wanting to write for my entire 40 years at CC,\u201d he says. \u201cSometimes it takes a long time and many adventures of ideas to finally be able to think and say what you most want to.\u201d\u00a0The book began seven years ago when he was the Kohut Professor at the University of Chicago.\u00a0During that year he presented his ideas both at the university and at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.\u00a0\u201cThe response was so positive and strong that I set out to write the book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riker also is the author of \u201cEthics and the Discovery of the Unconscious,\u201d \u201cHuman Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche,\u201d and \u201cThe Art of Ethical Thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Riker, CC professor of philosophy, has published a new book that looks at ethics and moral issues. Yet talk about irony: He says there were many obstacles in the writing of \u201cWhy it is Good to be Good,\u201d including the fact that his computer and all the backups were stolen just as he completed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/09\/08\/why-it-is-good-to-be-good-ask-john-riker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why it is Good to be Good? Ask John Riker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[63,237,332],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudos","tag-books","tag-john-riker","tag-philosophy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}