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Online-Ressource (256 p)
ISBN:
9780226066349
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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 failin
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Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Place of Ethics; Real American Ethics; Decency and Passion; Kinds of Ethics; Part I: Theoretical Ethics; Moral Landmarks; Jefferson and Kant; The Pursuit of Happiness; Evolutionary Psychology; John Rawls; Part II: Practical Ethics; Theory and Practice; Personal Virtues; Political Virtues; Part III: Real Ethics; Recognizing Reality; The Economy of the Household; The Design of Public Space; Realizing American Ethics; Notes; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226066356
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226066349
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Real American Ethics : Taking Responsibility for Our Country
Language:
English
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