Debating the Good Society : a Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide
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| Autore: |
Scholkpf Bernhard
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| Titolo: |
Debating the Good Society : a Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, : MIT Press, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (371 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social values - United States |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Moral conditions |
| United States Social conditions 1980- | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory |
| SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General | |
| Altri autori: |
SmolaAlexander J
BurgesChristopher J
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-378). |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Debating the Good Society |
| ISBN: | 0-262-26453-6 |
| 0-262-28317-4 | |
| 0-585-07794-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910778639803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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