The Mortality and Morality of Nations - 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 Mortality and Morality of Nations write by Uriel Abulof. This book was released on 2015-07-24. The Mortality and Morality of Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.
The Mortality and Morality of Nations Jews, Afrikaners, and French-Canadians
The Mortality and Morality of Nations Jews, Afrikaners, and French-Canadians - 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 Mortality and Morality of Nations Jews, Afrikaners, and French-Canadians write by Uriel Abulof. This book was released on 2015. The Mortality and Morality of Nations Jews, Afrikaners, and French-Canadians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Morality of Nations
The Morality of Nations - 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 Morality of Nations write by Cecil Delisle Burns. This book was released on 1915. The Morality of Nations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The morality of nations, a study in the evolution of ethics
The morality of nations, a study in the evolution of ethics - 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 morality of nations, a study in the evolution of ethics write by Hugh Taylor (author of The morality of nations.). This book was released on 1888. The morality of nations, a study in the evolution of ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Moral Tribes
Moral Tribes - 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 Moral Tribes write by Joshua Greene. This book was released on 2014-12-30. Moral Tribes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground. A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward. Greene compares the human brain to a dual-mode camera, with point-and-shoot automatic settings (“portrait,” “landscape”) as well as a manual mode. Our point-and-shoot settings are our emotions—efficient, automated programs honed by evolution, culture, and personal experience. The brain’s manual mode is its capacity for deliberate reasoning, which makes our thinking flexible. Point-and-shoot emotions make us social animals, turning Me into Us. But they also make us tribal animals, turning Us against Them. Our tribal emotions make us fight—sometimes with bombs, sometimes with words—often with life-and-death stakes. A major achievement from a rising star in a new scientific field, Moral Tribes will refashion your deepest beliefs about how moral thinking works and how it can work better.
