Democracy and tradition
Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror? Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversial p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | New forum books.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426416706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE: The Question of Character
- CHAPTER 1. Character and Piety from Emerson to Dewey
- CHAPTER 2. Race and Nation in Baldwin and Ellison
- PART TWO: Religious Voices in a Secular Society
- CHAPTER 3. Religious Reasons in Political Argument
- CHAPTER 4. Secularization and Resentment
- CHAPTER 5. The New Traditionalism
- CHAPTER 6. Virtue and the Way of the World
- CHAPTER 7. Between Example and Doctrine
- PART THREE: A Conditioned Rectitude
- CHAPTER 8. Democratic Norms in the Age of Terrorism
- CHAPTER 9. The Emergence of Modern Democratic Culture
- CHAPTER 10. The Ideal of a Common Morality
- CHAPTER 11. Ethics without Metaphysics
- CHAPTER 12. Ethics as a Social Practice
- CONCLUSION
- Notes
- Index
