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Autore |
Eberly Don E. |
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The soul of civil society : voluntary associations and the public value of moral habits / / Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter |
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Lanham, Maryland ; ; Oxford, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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0-7391-0424-1 |
0-7391-6112-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Voluntarism - United States |
Associations, institutions, etc - United States |
Non-governmental organizations - United States |
Social problems - United States |
Social ethics - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Moral conditions |
United States Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Voluntary Associations and the Primacy of Moral Habits; PART ONE THE PROMISE OF SOCIAL RENAISSANCE; 1. The Coming Social Renaissance: Restoring America's Civic and Moral Creed; 2. Toward a Human Scale: Making the World Work at the Street Level; 3. Individuals and a Healthy Civic Order; PART TWO VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE MARKETPLACE; 4. Voluntary Associations and the Remoralization of America; 5. Targeting Recovery to Low-Income Families; 6. A Humane Economy: The Moral Dimensions of Enterprise |
PART THREE MORAL HABITS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD7. Families, Fathers, and Citizenship; 8. Cultivating Moral Habits: Four Social Virtues Worth the Work; 9. The Reformation of Manners; 10. The Golden Rule: A Universal Moral Ethic for Society; Index; About the Authors |
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Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's deep sense that one's success rests neither in money nor in power but in one's civility. In The Soul of Civil Society Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter look beyond such abstractions as the 'voluntary sector' and superficial communitarian solutions to civic anomie to identify the pivotal role played by local voluntary associations in a civil society. Not only important for the services they provide, these 'little platoons,' as Edmund Burke labeled them, ar |
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