Moral clarity : a guide for grown-up idealists

Select an Action

Title:

Author:

Neiman, Susan.

ISBN:

9780691143897

Personal Author:

Neiman, Susan.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publication Information:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

470 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Part 1. Ideal and real: 1. Hard facts ; 2. Ideas and ideology ; 3. Facing gallows -- Part 2. Enlightenment values: 4. Myths or monsters ; 5. Heaven and Earth ; 6. Happiness ; 7. Reason ; 8. Reverence ; 9. Hope -- Part 3. Good and Evil: 10. The Odyssey: An excursion ; 11. What about evil? ; 12. Enlightenment heroes ; 13. Moral clarity.

Subject Term:

Ethics.

Copies:

Available:*

Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025447331	170 N414M 2009	1	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

For years, moral language has been the province of the Right, as the Left has consoled itself with rudderless pragmatism. In this profound and powerful book, Susan Neiman reclaims the vocabulary of morality-- good and evil , heroism and nobility --as a lingua franca for the twenty-first century. In constructing a framework for taking responsible action on today's urgent questions, Neiman reaches back to the eighteenth century, retrieving a series of values-- happiness , reason , reverence , and hope --held high by Enlightenment thinkers. In this thoroughly updated edition, Neiman reflects on how the moral language of the 2008 presidential campaign has opened up new political and cultural possibilities in America and beyond.