What Does America Mean?

Name: What Does America Mean?
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ISBN: 9780393006582

ISBN-10: 0393006581

ISBN-13: 9780393006582

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Alexander Meiklejohn

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America's passion for "liberty," writes Alexander Meiklejohn, has blinded her to the real meaning of "freedom." It is freedom, not liberty, that lies at the heart of democracy, and we may be in danger of losing both. Our fetish of independence has permitted us to condone slavery, the betrayal of Indians and Blacks, and "the humiliation of the spirit of women . . . the crowning insult which a society has offered to the personalities of its own members." In this challenging essay, sensitively and scrupulously argued, one of America's most original social philosophers sums up the fallacies that have confused our purpose and recalls us to the methods of inquiry that led Socrates and Jesus to…

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List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/1972
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 0.51" wide x 0.78" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.660

Alexander Meiklejohnnbsp;was president of Amherst College and later founder of the University of Wisconsin#39;s Experimental College in 1928. His other major books includenbsp; The Liberal College, Free Speech and Its Relation to the Government , andnbsp; Political Freedom .nbsp;