Debating the Good Society : a Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide.

Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war incontemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is goodsocial order to be achieved?Through the ingenious means of a fictional Internet conversation among two dozen or so Americans from various...

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Main Author: Scholkpf, Bernhard
Other Authors: Smola, Alexander J., Burges, Christopher J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a Contents -- Introduction -- Interlude -- Does the Well-Ordered Soul Develop Naturally? -- The Question of the Adequacy of the Human Being -- Interlude -- Must People, to Be Good, Submit to Authority? -- Can a Good Order Be Based on Hierarchy? -- Interlude -- Do We Have the Moorings We Need? -- When Bad Things Happen Because of Good People -- Interlude -- What Does This Creation Say about the Creator? -- Interlude -- An Evolutionary View of Order -- Interlude -- How Can Good Order Be Built from What We Can Know of Truth? -- Conclusion -- Notes 
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