Ethicist

NPR | 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?

Randy Cohen

Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.

Jacki Lyden

Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden's voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.

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