Debating the Good Society : a Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide.

Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war incontemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is goodsocial order to be achieved?Through the ingenious means of a fictional Internet conversation among two dozen or so Americans from various...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scholkpf, Bernhard
Otros Autores: Smola, Alexander J., Burges, Christopher J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015.
Temas:
1980-2020
Social values > United States.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis.
Moral conditions
Social conditions
Social values
United States > Moral conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Interlude
  • Does the Well-Ordered Soul Develop Naturally?
  • The Question of the Adequacy of the Human Being
  • Interlude
  • Must People, to Be Good, Submit to Authority?
  • Can a Good Order Be Based on Hierarchy?
  • Interlude
  • Do We Have the Moorings We Need?
  • When Bad Things Happen Because of Good People
  • Interlude
  • What Does This Creation Say about the Creator?
  • Interlude
  • An Evolutionary View of Order
  • Interlude
  • How Can Good Order Be Built from What We Can Know of Truth?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes

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