Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our CountryUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 Jun 2010 - 232 halaman 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? |
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... equality— the recognition that my self-determination ends where yours begins. Among others, it is constrained by Churchill's principle. In 1943, when the House of Commons had to be rebuilt due to Nazi bomb- ing, Winston Churchill ...
... equality substance. It tells us what equality minimally requires—everyone's dignity is to be respected and secured. Dignity here is not the distinction that de- serves honor and acclaim. That kind of dignity cannot be universal. Dignity ...
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