Real American Ethics Taking Responsibility for Our Country

Name: Real American Ethics Taking Responsibility for Our Country
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ISBN: 9780226066349

ISBN-10: 0226066347

ISBN-13: 9780226066349

Edition: 2006

Authors: Albert Borgmann

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America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world. But it also has its share of warts. It is embroiled in a war that many of its citizens consider unjust and even illegal. It continues to ravage the natural environment and ignore poverty both at home and abroad, and its culture is increasingly driven by materialism and consumerism. But America, for better or for worse, is still a nation that we have built. So why then, asks Albert Borgmann in this most timely and urgent work, are we failing to take responsibility for it?nbsp; In Real American Ethics, Borgmann asks us to reevaluate our role in the making…

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Place of Ethics



Real American Ethics



Decency and Passion



Kinds of Ethics



Theoretical Ethics



Moral Landmarks



Jefferson and Kant



The Pursuit of Happiness



Evolutionary Psychology



John Rawls



Practical Ethics



Theory and Practice



Personal Virtues



Political Virtues



Real Ethics



Recognizing Reality



The Economy of the Household



The Design of Public Space



Realizing American Ethics


Notes


Index