Eclipse of Morality or Training for Professionals Who Work with Gay and Lesbians in Educational and WorkPlace Settings

Eclipse of Morality: Science, State, and Market

Author: Lawrence Busch

Using the works of Bacon, Hobbes, and Adam Smith as well as historical examples drawn from the last two centuries, Busch shows how the ideas initially proposed by these thinkers became reified as scientism, statism, and marketism--systems of belief that a single mode of ordering could solve the riddle of society, and thereby supplant moral responsibility.

Busch contrasts this approach with concrete examples of successful attempts to extend democracy into these areas--to create multiple orderings--so that moral responsibility is neither crushingly heavy on individuals nor unbearably light on society.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Politics of Science and the Science of Politics	1
1	Development and the Problem of Order	5
	Order	5
	A Digression on Method	7
	Bacon: Democratic Technocracy	9
	Hobbes: The Moral Responsibility of the State	16
	Smith: The Morality of the Marketplace	23
	Three Paths to Order; Three Paths from Moral Responsibility	27
2	The Technology of Power and the Power of Technology	33
	The United States	35
	The Soviet Union	47
	From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution	56
	Other Nations	63
	The Critics	67
	Conclusion: Bacon Lives!	67
3	The State of the State	71
	The Colonial Project	72
	The Oppressive State and the State of Oppression	77
	Statism with a Democratic Face	82
	The Rise of the Private State	89
	The State and the Individual	93
4	Selling the Market	97
	The Irish Potato Famine	99
	The Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights	101
	Education	108
	Social Security	109
	The Return of the State	110
5	Beyond the Leviathans	117
	Scientism	117
	Statism	119
	Marketism	122
	Fundamentalism: A Solution?	133
	Beyond Scientism, Statism, and Marketism	135
	Of Chickens and Eggs	136
6	Networks of Democracy	147
	Politics with a Capital P	152
	The Workplace	156
	Science and Technology Choice	162
	Education	168
	Health Care	173
	Arts	175
	Media	176
	Family	179
	Law	184
	Putting It All Together: Networks of Democracy	185
	References	189
	Index	207

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Training for Professionals Who Work with Gay and Lesbians in Educational and WorkPlace Settings

Author: Hilda F Besner

This manual was written for trainers, both in the private and public sectors, who are responsible for educating employees about gay and lesbian issues that directly or indirectly affect organizations in educational or workplace settings.

There are compelling reasons for addressing gay and lesbian issues in educational and workplace settings. Many gays and lesbians are victims of prejudice, discrimination, and violent behavior that is motivated by fear, misinformation, and/or lack of knowledge. Unsafe environments in the educational and workplace environments can have negative effects on the productivity and creativity of personnel and interpersonal relationships.