{"id":4361,"date":"2011-08-08T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2011-08-08T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:53:34","slug":"why-it-is-good-to-be-good-by-john-riker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2011\/08\/why-it-is-good-to-be-good-by-john-riker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It Is Good to Be Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/08\/RIKER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4374\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/riker\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/08\/RIKER.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,912\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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=\"Why It is Good to Be Good\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/08\/RIKER-197x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/08\/RIKER.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4374\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2011\/08\/RIKER-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/08\/RIKER-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2011\/08\/RIKER.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a> by John Riker, <em>CC professor of philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Talk about irony: Just as he completed the first draft of \u201cWhy it is Good to be Good,\u201d Riker\u2019s computer and all the backups were stolen. Yet he forged on, and in this 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><em>ISBN-13: 978-0765707901. Published by Jason Aronson, 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Riker, CC professor of philosophy Talk about irony: Just as he completed the first draft of \u201cWhy it is Good to be Good,\u201d Riker\u2019s computer and all the backups were stolen. Yet he forged on, and in this book Riker shows how modernity\u2019s reigning concept of the self undermines moral life and lays&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[30],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-august-2011","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}