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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scholkpf, Bernhard
Other Authors: Smola, Alexander J., Burges, Christopher J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Social values > United States.
United States > Moral conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780262283175
0262283174
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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