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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... problems that in the lives of other people occur as troubling experiences, irritating puzzles, or flashes of insight. To get to the bottom of these problems and to show how they hang together, some depth and breadth are needed, depth of ...
... problems that in the lives of other people occur as troubling experiences, irritating puzzles, or flashes of in- sight. To get to the bottom of these problems and to show how they hang together, some depth and breadth are needed, depth ...
... problems an individual's resolve could deal with, beginning tonight. But a per- son would do so in the teeth of the larger shape of society. To take the problem of health and physical fitness, there is helpful information, wholesome ...
... and environmentally tolerable. When it comes to the individual pursuit of excellence, uniform mediocrity rather than unruly diversity is the problem. Knowing what the norms of personal excellence are is not the 8 chapter one.
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