Universal Ethics
March 11th, 2002
Rushworth Kidder:
“When you talk to people anywhere in the world about what they think are the most important values to hand on to the next generation, they will talk to you about five things: compassion, fairness, responsibility, honesty and respect. It’s uncanny the commonality with which those particular five values keep coming up.”
Michael Josephson:
His research resulted in what he calls the Six Pillars of Character, five of which–caring, fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness and respect–are essentially identical to the values identified by Kidder’s organization. The sixth is citizenship.