Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up IdealistsHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008 - 467 من الصفحات An inspiring and jargon-free look at how morals guide and inform our lives Moral philosopher Susan Neiman makes the tools of her trade relevant to real life in Moral Clarity, steering us clear of political dogma to offer instead a framework for forming clear opinions and taking responsible action on today's urgent political and social questions. Neiman reaches back to the classic virtues--happiness, reason, reverence, and hope--that were held high by every Enlightenment thinker and draws on literature, evolutionary theory, and contemporary research to show that the pursuit of moral clarity is open to all who are committed to these ideals, believers and nonbelievers alike. |
المحتوى
Introduction | 1 |
Ideal and Real | 23 |
American Dreams | 25 |
Ideals and Ideology | 48 |
Facing Gallows | 79 |
Enlightenment Values | 105 |
Myths or Monsters | 107 |
Heaven and Earth | 124 |
Good and Evil | 287 |
The Odyssey An Excursion | 289 |
What about Evil? | 325 |
Enlightenment Heroes | 372 |
Moral Clarity | 415 |
Acknowledgments | 431 |
Bibliographical Notes | 433 |
Bibliography | 441 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists <span dir=ltr>Susan Neiman</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2011 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
action American argued argument asked authority become begin believe better called century claims clear committed concepts create critics culture death demand described discussion Enlightenment equal everything evil example experience fact faith fear feel follow force friends give happened happiness hard heroes hold hope human idea ideals imagine important interests it's justice Kant Kant's kind knowledge lead learned leave less limits lives look Marxism matter means mind moral move nature never Odysseus offer once philosopher political possible practice principle progress question reality reason religion Rousseau rules seemed sense simply sort story sure tell things thinkers thought tion torture tradition truth turn understand universal values virtue women wrong wrote