...ced. Imagine that the following questions were posed one or two centuries ago to political theorists and moral philosophers: what is the preferred setting, the most supportive environment, for the goo...
...d associational solidarity--but only within the limits of civility; that is, within the limits of public moral ity, the rule of law. Developing these criteria--the constitutional principles of public p...
..., were the order of the day. This part of social life lacked all the qualities of warmth, solidarity and moral cohesion at least supposedly characteristic of the Gemeinschaften of simpler societies. ...
... of the consequences of this premise, incidentally, is the ultimate insufficiency of utilitarianism as a moral doctrine. Utilitarianism assumes that in the end my difference from you is not fundamenta...
...at present only in part--an affair of expediency and self-interest." The heady drama of this moral revolution in the ancient world is a story that has lost none of its excitement or import...
... to the commons its core theme. The young movement is in part social philosophy and sociology, in part a moral call, and in part a matter of taking a different slant on public policies. Communitarian...
...agenda might conceivably be developed. Are we capable of social learning? Are we capable of moral vision? What can we possibly mean by a good society under modern circumstances? What woul...
...ap between what the people being interviewed in the story were talking about and the rather impoverished moral vocabulary in which they and the reporter were talking about it. They were talking about ...
...ger something I could really support. I retained very warm feelings for Norman Thomas, and felt a strong moral continuity with his concept of democratic socialism. Nevertheless, I could no longer acc...
...unists)? Is there in the United States a coherent "communitarian" school of political thought, moral philosophy and even of economic analysis? Does this "communitarianism" have wel...
...Hollywood movies, in which an indebted person is blackmailed by Mafia-like organizations into performing moral ly questionable and even criminal acts. I might add that on a national level the hard budg...
...tackle the problems it claimed to solve, but thanks also to such outstanding books as Amitai Etzioni The Moral Dimension, a new and more complex understanding of the economy and the role of state inte...
...re payments. 5. The most striking critical feature of the welfare state is the clientelization and the demoral ization of citizens in the welfare labyrinth. The critics of the welfare state have gener...
...o say that theories of progress that assert that self or class interest can be trusted are the engine of moral progress. Very briefly the critique is that these theories provide no restraint, neither ...
...rs, always so earnest, are ever easy. For them it is unimaginable that an individual might actually face moral dilemmas, might confront legitimate conflicts of reality, might have to inquire of the ri...
..., and pornographic comic books appeal to teenagers, liberals ought not be too certain that they hold the moral high ground. Hunter is right to argue that too many people have lost the distinction betw...
...he mixed economy and the welfare state, and economic planning, are for the Pope positive components of a moral society. Where the Pope is certainly not a contemporary Social Democrat, he comes closes...
