Morality Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality Wars write by Charles Derber. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Morality Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questions and of all the debates about moral values and liberal versus conservative ideology. Derber and Magrass show that the moral problem today is not just lying but "immoral morality," doing evil in the name of good (e.g., Bush preemptively invading Iraq to spread liberty). The authors explore three ancient codes of immoral morality frighteningly resurrected in America today -those of empire, the politically correct, and the born again. Although the right today has recrafted historic arguments that empires bring peace, and fundamentalists battle moral decay, the authors show the Democratic Party and the left have their own IM, with Democrats supporting empire and the left its own political correctness. America's political divide today is a backlash to the progressive revolution of the 1960s and 1970s-secular, antiwar, and feminist-that created a radical break from traditional values and set the stage for current morality wars. In the spirit of de Tocqueville, this powerful book offers a rich and vivid portrait of America's political landscape, exploring ideas that can help move the nation to a new morality and politics.
The Moral Landscape
The Moral Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Landscape write by Sam Harris. This book was released on 2011-09-13. The Moral Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
Morality and War
Morality and War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality and War write by David Fisher. This book was released on 2011-03-03. Morality and War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty-first century security concerns? David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. His in-depth study examines philosophical challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morality; and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide practical guidance not just to politicians and generals but to ordinary service people. The complexity and difficulty of moral decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here characterised as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the importance of both the internal quality and external effects of agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, Fisher uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention. He concludes that the just war tradition provides not only a robust but an indispensable guide to resolve the security challenges of the twenty-first century.
Morality Within the Limits of Reason
Morality Within the Limits of Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality Within the Limits of Reason write by Russell Hardin. This book was released on 1988. Morality Within the Limits of Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This provocative, lucidly written reconstruction of utilitarianism focuses on the practical constraints involved in ethical choice: information may be inadequate, and understanding of causes and effects may be limited. Good decision making may be especially constrained if other people are closely involved in determining an outcome. Hardin demonstrates that many of these structural issues can and should be distinguished from the thornier problems of utilitarian value theory, and he is able to show what kinds of moral conclusions we can reach within the limits of reason.
In the Name of Morality
In the Name of Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Name of Morality write by Tianlong Yu. This book was released on 2004. In the Name of Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is presumably a trend toward depoliticization of character education as character educators claim to teach universal values and engage in community-based decision making. However, as Tianlong Yu argues in this book, under the umbrella of universality, character educators define virtues based on neo-conservative ideologies. In the name of community, they trivialize issues of gender, race, class, and culture and promote the interests of dominant social groups. In the Name of Morality: Character Education and Political Control traces the historical origins of character education and stimulates readers to look critically into the social interests, power relations, and political agendas that have shaped the character education movement in the United States. This challenging, yet engaging, book reaffirms the crucial relationship between moral education and politics. It is a must-read for anyone who is concerned about students' character building and moral education in schools.
