Research Catalog

Title

The Moral foundations of the American Republic / edited by Robert H. Horwitz.

Publication

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Horwitz, Robert H.
• Kenyon Public Affairs Forum.

Description

viii, 275 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Essays from 2 conferences held under the auspices of the Kenyon Public Affairs Forum at Kenyon College. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subject

• Political ethics
• Moral conditions
• Political ethics
• Politics and government
• Politische Philosophie
• Political ethics > United States
• United States > Politics and government
• United States > Moral conditions
• United States
• USA

Note

• Essays from 2 conferences held under the auspices of the Kenyon Public Affairs Forum at Kenyon College.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Of men and angels : a search for morality in the Constitution / Robert A. Goldwin -- Compromised Republic : public purposelessness in America / Benjamin R. Barber -- Ethics and politics : the American way / Martin Diamond -- Founding Fathers : an age of realism / Richard Hofstadter -- United States as regime and the sources of the American way of life / Joseph Cropsey -- Democratization of mind in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood -- John Locke and the preservation of liberty : a perennial problem of civic education / Robert H. Horwitz -- Religion and the founding principle / Walter Berns -- On equality as the moral foundation for community / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Slavery and the moral foundations of the American republic / Herbert J. Storing -- On removing certain impediments to democracy in the United States / Robert A. Dahl.

ISBN

• 0813908531
• 9780813908533
• 081390854X
• 9780813908540

LCCN

79020387

OCLC

• ocm05336811
• 5336811
• SCSB-611397

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library