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Debating the Good Society : A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide.

Schmookler, Andrew Bard.

Debating the Good Society : A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (386 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- 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.

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?.

9780262283175


Social values -- United States.
United States -- Moral conditions.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-.


Electronic books.

HN90.M6 -- S347 1999eb

306.0973

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