Public Morality, Civic Virtue, and the Problem of Modern Liberalism,9780802847546

Public Morality, Civic Virtue, and the Problem of Modern Liberalism

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ISBN13: 9780802847546
ISBN10: 0802847544
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary

Liberalism, the central political philosophy of American and Western society, is a philosophy based on human freedom, equality, and the natural rights of individuals. Yet liberalism needs character-forming influences if it is to succeed. In light of the growing apprehension about moral decline, civic strife, and basic incivility, this brilliant volume explores the question of how the public morality and civic virtue upon which our liberal democratic society depends, and which seems in short supply, can again be rejuvenated and sustained.

Author Biography

T. William Boxx, chairman and CEO of the Philip M. McKenna Foundation, is cofounder of the Center for Economic and Policy Education at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania Gary M. Quinlivan, cofounder and executive director of the Center for Economic and Policy Education, is professor of economics and chairman of the economics, political science, and public policy departments at Saint Vincent College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment ix
Preface xi
The Cultivation of Citizenship
1(13)
Walter Berns
Religion and American Democracy
14(10)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Moral Foundations of Liberal Democracy
24(16)
Daniel J. Mahoney
Fleeing the Universal: The Problem of Relativism
40(15)
Gilbert Meilaender
Liberalism and Virtue
55(34)
Douglas J. Den Uyl
The Perennial Experiment in Liberty
89(18)
David Walsh
Liberal Freedom and Responsibility
107(17)
Mark Blitz
The Judeo-Christian Tradition and the Liberal Tradition in the American Republic
124(13)
Wilfred McClay
Rationality v. Morality?
137(17)
Catherine Heldt Zuckert
Liberalism, Postmodernism, and Public Philosophy
154(17)
Peter Berkowitz
Issues Facing Contemporary American Public Philosophy
171(44)
Christopher Wolfe
About the Contributors 215(5)
Index 220

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