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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Morality, the distinguished religious leader and philosopher Rabbi Jonathan Sacks diagnoses our troubled times as a period of "cultural climate change." Delivering an insightful critique of our modern condition, and assessing its roots and causes from the ancient Greeks through the Reformation and Enlightenment to the present day, Sacks argues that there is no liberty without morality, and no freedom without responsibility"--
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, inspiring, and achievable vision of a society based on cooperation and community instead of competition and commodification. This book counters the dominant and destructive story that we are polarized, violent, selfish, and destined to consume everything in sight. That is not who we are. The challenge, Peter Block says, is that we are suffering under an economic theology that is based on scarcity, self-interest, competition, and infinite...
12) The common good
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
""Robert B. Reich makes the case for a generous, inclusive understanding of the American project, centering on the moral obligations of citizenship. Rooting his argument in everyday reality and common sense, Reich demonstrates the existence of a common good, and argues that it is this that defines a society or a nation. Societies and nations undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce and build the common good, as well as vicious cycles that undermine...
13) American character: a history of the epic struggle between individual liberty and the common good
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the ongoing debates throughout history between the fight for individual rights and the community as a whole, from discussions that took place at the Constitutional Convention, through the Civil War, all the way up to the modern Tea Party, "--NoveList.
Author
Series
Studies in international law volume 21
Publisher
Hart Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
New studies in Christian ethics volume 22
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English