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UNINA9910459511103321 |
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Autore |
Borgmann Albert |
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Titolo |
Real American ethics [[electronic resource] ] : taking responsibility for our country / / Albert Borgmann |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-64624-9 |
9786612646249 |
0-226-06635-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethics - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Moral conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-229) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface Introduction: The Place of Ethics -- 1. Real American Ethics -- 2. Decency and Passion -- 3. Kinds of Ethics -- 4. Moral Landmarks -- 5. Jefferson and Kant -- 6. The Pursuit of Happiness -- 7. Evolutionary Psychology -- 8. John Rawls -- 9. Theory and Practice -- 10. Personal Virtues -- 11. Political Virtues -- 12. Recognizing Reality -- 13. The Economy of the Household -- 14. The Design of Public Space -- 15. Realizing American Ethics -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism. But America, for better or for worse, is still a nation that we have built. So why then, asks Albert Borgmann in this most timely and urgent work, are we failin |
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