LEADER 03734nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910826751003321 005 20230803020730.0 010 $a0-7735-8834-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773588349 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039474 035 $a(EBL)3332583 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053116 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11569713 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053116 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11113675 035 $a(PQKB)10525173 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3332583 035 $a(CEL)444737 035 $a(OCoLC)841912701 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00232133 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3332583 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10679109 035 $a(OCoLC)929122205 035 $a(DE-B1597)656949 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773588349 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039474 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContesting the moral high ground $epopular moralists in mid twentieth-century Britain /$fPaul T. Phillips 210 $aMontreal $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ;$v2.62 311 $a0-7735-4112-8 311 $a0-7735-4111-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1 The Setting -- 2 One World, One Faith: The Quest for Unity in Julian Huxley's Religion of Evolutionary Humanism -- Bertrand Russell: Reason, Love, and the Conquest of Fear -- Heaven in Heaven: The Cultural Apostasy of Malcolm Muggeridge -- Barbara Ward and the Social Conscience of Christianity -- Conclusion and Legacy. 330 $aIn mid-twentieth century Britain, four intellectuals - Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Barbara Ward - held sway over popular conceptions of morality. While Huxley and Russell championed ideas informed by agnosticism and atheism, Muggeridge and Ward were adherents to Christianity. In Contesting the Moral High Ground, Paul Phillips reveals how this fundamental dichotomy was representative of British society at the time, and how many of the ideologies promoted by these four moralists are still present today. As world-class public figures in an open forum of debate, Huxley, Russell, Muggeridge, and Ward all achieved considerable public attention, particularly during the turbulent 1960s. Phillips captures the rebellious spirit of the time, detailing how these thinkers exploited the popular media to disseminate ideas on prevailing social issues - from justice and world peace to protection of the environment. Phillips skilfully traces the foundations of their thought to their earlier careers and social movements of previous generations, and shows how many of their approaches were adopted by a host of present-day groups from the Christian Right and Left to the New Atheists and environmentalists. A significant contribution to British intellectual history, Contesting the Moral High Ground provides new insights into the moral philosophies of four of Britain's most influential minds in the twentieth century. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ;$v2.62. 606 $aEthicists$zGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aEthics$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEthicists$xIntellectual life 615 0$aEthics$xHistory 676 $a170.92/2 700 $aPhillips$b Paul T.$f1942-$01613510 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826751003321 996 $aContesting the moral high ground$93942864 997 $aUNINA