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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... sense to look for coherence in the welter of troubling fea- tures. They are as a matter of fact connected with one another and converge on a central issue. But the center is more tangible and pro- saic than the questions suggest, and it ...
... In that sense, it describes the typical conduct of a person or a people. So understood, a certain amount of American ethics goes along with American culture . But ethics can also be taken normatively real american ethics 11.
... sense ? Are there virtues that we and the people in other nations take to be characteristically American ? Yes , there are two such virtues , generosity and resourcefulness . They have distinguished us , at any rate , when we , as ...
... sense takes time to bestir itself and right the wrongs of indifference, injustice, and imperialism. In everyday life, when the carefully laid plans of two hundred travelers are suddenly disrupted by a cancelled flight, what do people do ...
... sense of security has been regained, moral passions and effective power will again become inversely related. Even today, outbursts of moral passion are usually signs of political or economic powerless- ness. The powerless are outraged ...
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