Changing the Bully Who Rules the World: Reading and Thinking Aabout Ethics

by Carol Bly

Book Overview

"Carol Bly is a one woman army fighting moral drift and the bullies of the world. Her book will inspire others to join the fight. Changing the Bully Who Rules the World uses literature and the social... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571312056
• ISBN13: 9781571312051
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 549 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Moral Development

Changing the Bully Who Rules the World uses modern literature to help explain bully behavior. It is a very readable and thought provoking book. It explains in layman terms what moral stage development is and how each of us can use partializing in our conversations with others to promote improved ethics. The most heartening disclosure is that we can all improve ethical behavior. Even at adulthood, we are not locked into a lower level of stage development. With encouragement and using proven techniques everyone can improve.It is an encouraging and very accessible book that will give you hope and understanding of how we can improve the world.

This book makes me want to be a better person!

Rarely do we find books which change our lives. This one didn't hit me like a ton of bricks nor did it give me the false charge received from supposed motivational material. However, as I read and thought about Ms. Bly's essays, I found that a slow fire was catching in my mind. Reading this book was the best educational experience I've had in ages. Its been about 2 weeks since I finished reading it, but I find so much of it coming back as food for thought. And it has become one of those books which I like to keep close at hand in order to pick up, browse, re-read. I consider myself well-educated but the issues which Ms. Bly discusses here were rarely raised in my school work (which includes the attainment of a post-graduate degree). There is a need for books like this which call attention to the the large hole in our social fiber and go the extra step toward helping us make ourselves more complete. Ms. Bly does wonderful work. She makes me want to improve my ability to consider where I am, what life can be, and how I can attend to the information around me and integrate it into a proper outlook -- one which is more widely focused, concerned with getting behind the surface of things. I recommend this book highly to anyone interested in living more awarely and in need of the guidance to start in that direction.

articulate, worthwhile reading

Carol Bly takes an engaging, "great books" approach to exploring the ethical quagmires that dot our modern landscape. Her chapter on the moral blunders well-meaning people make in groups is as relevant to my work with a nonprofit board as it is to my husband's army career. Cheers for Bly's clear writing style and combination of literature and social thought (particularly the well-chosen appendices!)