Ethicist

By Randy Cohen,

Jacki Lyden

Published February 9, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

All Things Considered Ethicist Randy Cohen stops by to tell host Jacki Lyden about one of the precepts of ethics -- utilitarianism. And we have advice for a listener: Is a teacher ethically obligated to read the evaluations his students write about him?

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