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Legacy of Wisdom: Great Thinkers and Journalism  
Author: John Calhoun Merrill
ISBN: 0813820405
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Legacy of Wisdom: Great Thinkers and Journalism

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Legacy of Wisdom: Great Thinkers and Journalism introduces the reader to the ideas of more than 30 great philosophers, writers, and intellectuals - from Confucius and Plato, to Machiavelli and Kant, to Simone de Beauvoir and Sissela Bok - and the ways their ethical systems apply to journalism and journalists today. Author John C. Merrill provides brief sketches of each thinker as "intellectual springboards" for journalists and journalism students seeking motivation and ethical guidance in their professional lives. Legacy of Wisdom explores the variety of ways that the philosophies of some of history's great thinkers apply to such timeless debates and subjects as press freedom and responsibility; the nature of objectivity and truth; the journalist's use of power; duty and the journalist; language use, style, and propaganda; and the complex relationship between mass media and society. Merrill's book is a valuable primer for the reader's entry into the world of the great thinkers and journalism. He includes a helpful glossary of philosophical terms.

SYNOPSIS

In each of 30 brief chapters, Merrill (journalism, U. of Missouri) applies the ideas of different philosophers to the practice of journalism. Thinkers discussed include Socrates, John Locke, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Ellul, and John Rawls. A final chapter presents even briefer treatments of nine thinkers from Buddha to Hannah Arendt. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

     



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