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After Liberalism
Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Häftad, 2001
346 kr
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In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect …
Democratic Faith
Inbunden, 2005
1629 kr
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The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick …
By Nature Equal
The Anatomy of a Western Insight
Av John E. Coons, Patrick M. Brennan
Inbunden, 1999
1920 kr
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What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or are born into unequal circumstances, all may …
Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism
Häftad, 2000
567 kr
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Virtue has been rediscovered in the United States as a subject of public debate and of philosophical inquiry. Politicians from both parties, leading intellectuals, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds are addressing questions about the content of our character. William Bennett's moral …
Ambiguous Embrace
Government and Faith-Based Schools and Social Agencies
Häftad, 2002
899 kr
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This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions are often better than government at meeting human needs. As Charles Glenn shows in this book, faith-based schools and social agencies have been …
Monochrome Society
Häftad, 2003
431 kr
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Amitai Etzioni is one of the most influential social and political thinkers of our day, a man synonymous with the ideas of communitarianism. In this book, Etzioni challenges those who argue that diversity or multiculturalism is about to become the governing American creed. On the surface, America …
That Eminent Tribunal
Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution
Häftad, 2004
744 kr
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The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights? Or should it confine itself to enforcing specific constitutional provisions, leaving …
Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 1
The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses
Inbunden, 2004
728 kr
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School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and …
From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
Häftad, 2004
348 kr
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Peter Bauer, a pioneer of development economics, is an incisive thinker whose work continues to influence fields from political science to history to anthropology. As Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen writes in the introduction to this book, "the originality, force, and extensive bearing of his writings …
Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2
From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples"
Inbunden, 2004
728 kr
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School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and …
Welfare and the Constitution
Häftad, 2005
721 kr
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Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the …
Democracy and Tradition
Häftad, 2005
755 kr
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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 …
Plato's Fable
On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times
Inbunden, 2006
677 kr
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This book is an exploration of Plato's Republic that bypasses arcane scholarly debates. Plato's Fable provides refreshing insight into what, in Plato's view, is the central problem of life: the mortal propensity to adopt defective ways of answering the question of how to live well. How, in light of …
Freedom's Orphans
Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children
Häftad, 2007
499 kr
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Has contemporary liberalism's devotion to individual liberty come at the expense of our society's obligations to children? Divorce is now easy to obtain, and access to everything from violent movies to sexually explicit material is zealously protected as freedom of speech. But what of the effects …
Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Häftad, 2009
321 kr
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The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia--as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization--ever published. In clear terms accessible to the general reader, Neil …
Priority of Love
Christian Charity and Social Justice
Häftad, 2009
338 kr
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This book explores the relation between agape (or Christian charity) and social justice. Timothy Jackson defines agape as the central virtue in Christian ethical thought and action and applies his insights to three concrete issues: political violence, forgiveness, and abortion. Taking his primary …
Covenantal Rights
A Study in Jewish Political Theory
Av David Novak
Häftad, 2009
338 kr
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Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought. David …
Democratic Faith
Häftad, 2014
601 kr
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The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick …
Speak Freely
Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Häftad, 2019
134 kr
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Why colleges and universities live or die by free speechFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, as critics on and off campus challenge the value of freewheeling debate. In Speak Freely, Keith Whittington argues that universities must protect and encourage vigorous free …
Why We Are Restless
On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Av Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
Inbunden, 2021
244 kr
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A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of …
Why We Are Restless
On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Av Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
Häftad, 2022
185 kr
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A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of …
Praise and Blame
Moral Realism and Its Applications
Inbunden, 2002
657 kr
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How should a prize be awarded after a horse race? Should it go to the best rider, the best person, or the one who finishes first? To what extent are bystanders blameworthy when they do nothing to prevent harm? Are there any objective standards of moral responsibility with which to address such …
Jewish Social Contract
An Essay in Political Theology
Av David Novak
Inbunden, 2005
693 kr
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The Jewish Social Contract begins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic society, and ends by proposing a broad, inclusive notion of secularity. David Novak takes issue with the view--held by the late philosopher John Rawls …
Speak Freely
Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Inbunden, 2018
219 kr
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Why free speech is the lifeblood of colleges and universitiesFree speech is under attack at colleges and universities today, with critics on and off campus challenging the value of open inquiry and freewheeling intellectual debate. Too often speakers are shouted down, professors are threatened, and …
