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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... Excellence. This country has the right size, and its people share enough of their ways and wants so that we can say something coherent and substan- tial about their typical conduct and values. But how are we to judge all this? And more ...
... excellence is elitist, or oppressive, or a wild goose chase. The. Reality. of. Moral. Standards. The landmarks of decency and the virtues of excellence that are the remedies for the sores on the body politic and the private person are not ...
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