How are we to live?

• Letter from this month's editor
  
  
• How are we to live?
  As uncertainty abounds, so does moralizing. But it may not be helping us to live more ethically. Vanessa Baird enters the maze.

• What's your ethics?
  A quiz... if you dare.

• A careful death
  Thirty-year-old José wanted euthanasia. A moving report from the Netherlands by Dinyar Godrej.

• Born to be good?
  Psychologist Celia Kitzinger puts morality on the couch.
  

• Whistleblowers
  Four out spoken people who are still being punished for their honesty. Compiled by Mary Brenan.
  

• Lofty ideas...or just hot air?
  A special on some of the world's main ethical systems.

• A disobedient woman
  Under the shadow of a fatwa,Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasrin explains why she doesn't believe in toeing the line.
  

• The haunted house
  Zygmunt Bauman is no fan of the work ethic. But what's replaced it worries him even more.

• Bare-faced cheek
  Some brazen - and some more subtle - ways of making businesses more ethical. Rob Harrison examines the state of play today.
  

• The drowning child and the expanding circle
  As our world gets smaller, our capacity to act morally increases. Peter Singer makes a powerful case for a better life.

• Action

• Letters
• Letter from Chechnya
• Update
• The NI Interview with Farid Eysack
• Reviews: including classic by Woody Guthrie
• Curiosities and the NI crossword
• Endpiece by Gordon Feller
• Country profile: St Lucia

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