LEADER 04185oam 2200613M 450 001 9910778639803321 005 20190503073427.0 010 $a0-262-26453-6 010 $a0-262-28317-4 010 $a0-585-07794-0 035 $a(CKB)111000211172670 035 $a(EBL)3338468 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000135703 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150225 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135703 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10063309 035 $a(PQKB)11556874 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338468 035 $a(OCoLC)923249871 035 $a(OCoLC-P)923249871 035 $a(MaCbMITP)2293 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338468 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10015367 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211172670 100 $a20151010d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDebating the Good Society $ea Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide 210 $aCambridge $cMIT Press$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (371 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-19414-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-378). 327 $a""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"" 330 $aDebating 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 walks of life and every shade of the ideological spectrum, Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war in contemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is good social order to be achieved? Traditionalists and conservatives, who tend to view human nature as inherently sinful, argue that good order must be imposed from above, by parental authority and ruling powers, by the forces of law and tradition, and, ultimately, by God. Counterculturalists and liberals, who tend to believe in the inherent goodness of human nature, claim that well-supported children will develop into well-ordered adults and that adults empowered to make their own choices will form a healthy, well-ordered society. These opposing visions underlie a host of current controversies, including philosophies of child-rearing and education, social and political policy, sexual morality, and the evolution-creation debate. By exposing the limitations of both points of view, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the culture war presents a challenge to all Americans. This challenge is to integrate the half-truths advanced by both sides into a higher wisdom, one that promises to take the American experiment--to see whether humans can enjoy both the blessings of liberty and the fruits of good order--to the next level of its evolution, toward which it has been straining for the better part of a century. 606 $aSocial values$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xMoral conditions 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980- 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General 615 0$aSocial values 676 $a306.0973 700 $aScholkpf$b Bernhard$01516508 701 $aSmola$b Alexander J$0769130 701 $aBurges$b Christopher J$01516509 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778639803321 996 $aDebating the Good Society$93753013 997 $aUNINA