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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... lives of other people occur as troubling experiences, irritating puzzles, or flashes of insight. To get to the ... live up to. While mainstream philosophers in this country have been good at fashioning tools of analysis, they have ...
... lives of other people occur as troubling experiences, irritating puzzles, or flashes of in- sight. To get to the ... live up to. While mainstream philosophers in this country have been good at fashioning tools of analysis, they have ...
... lives, and he takes satisfaction in knowing he is bet- ter off. There is mobility in society, yet not as much as the rich like to claim to give their status the glow of hard-earned merit and less than the lower classes imagine so they ...
... live their lives would lead to friction and unrest. Finally, if somehow all of us agreed to search for a better moral life, where would we find it? What would it be? Is not the good life a matter of preference? And is it not true that ...
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