Barack Obama’s historic election symbolizes a nation desperate for values that can replace the divisiveness, dishonesty, and confrontation of the Bush administration with an inclusive climate of concern for all citizens. But the liberalism of the late 20th century failed to unite the country under a powerful and compelling set of values. Will contemporary liberals of the 21st Century offer a new and more compelling vision?
In Reviving the Left, philosopher Dwight Furrow thoroughly elucidates why it is critical for liberals and progressives to develop a comprehensive moral identity that can win the debates about culture, values, and character and regain the moral high ground.
A work of popular philosophy, Reviving the Left is written in a serious, but lively, engaging, and often polemical style.
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Western philosophy has always placed questions of ethics - of how to live well - centre stage. Ethics: Key Concepts in Philosophy is the ideal introduction to the subject. It offers thorough analysis and explication of six core concepts in moral philosophy: agency; reason; happiness; obligation; character; responsibility.
The book covers all the major moral theories to have emerged from the Western tradition, and pays close attention to those philosophers who have made significant contributions to ethics. In addition to the six central themes, the text also discusses such key topics in ethics as relativism, egoism, naturalism, autonomy, objectivity, religion and integrity.
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Against Theory's is a remarkable synthesis of both the continental and analytical philosophical traditions around the subject of morality. Its singularity lies in its analysis of the implications postmodernism has had on ethics.
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This topically organized, interdisciplinary anthology provides competing perspective on the claim that western culture faces a moral crisis. Using clearly written, accessible essays by well-known authors in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities, the book introduces students to a variety of perspectives on the current cultural debate about values that percolates beneath the surface of most of our social and political controversies.
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