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Morality, Ethics, and Gifted Minds by Don Ambrose, Tracy Cross

1umbrella1's review

1.0

The essay on economics and Eastern perspectives were good. But this book really really needed to address the concept of intelligence or "giftedness" itself (and how said concept has been used in unethical/immoral/oppressive ways) and failed to do that at all. Most of the essays focused on white middle/upper class Westerners (some with barely acknowledging it) and almost none questioned whether they accepted the cultural values associated with these demographics (and with academia itself) and whether that influenced their writing. The essay on "criminality" was itself criminal, for example making the same mistake that other parts of the book called out - using criminal and anti-social as synonyms and assuming criminal = immoral.