Real American ethics : taking responsibility for our country / Albert Borgmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borgmann, Albert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--United States.

Ethics.

United States--Moral conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 failin

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface Introduction: The Place of Ethics

1. Real American Ethics

2. Decency and Passion

3. Kinds of Ethics

4. Moral Landmarks

5. Jefferson and Kant

6. The Pursuit of Happiness

7. Evolutionary Psychology

8. John Rawls

9. Theory and Practice

10. Personal Virtues

11. Political Virtues

12. Recognizing Reality

13. The Economy of the Household

14. The Design of Public Space

15. Realizing American Ethics

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-229) and index.

ISBN:

9786612646249

9781282646247

1282646249

9780226066356

0226066355

OCLC:

649914315