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The moral imagination and public life : raising the ethical question

Title
The moral imagination and public life : raising the ethical question / Thomas E. McCollough.
Author
McCollough, Thomas E., 1926-
Publication
Chatham, N.J. : Chatham House Publishers, ©1991.

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Description
xv, 176 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Chatham House studies in political thinking
Uniform Title
Chatham House studies in political thinking.
Subject
  • Political ethics
  • Policy sciences > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Policy sciences > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Political ethics
  • Politische Ethik
  • Sozialethik
  • Openbaar leven
  • Ethische aspecten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Public policy and political life -- The quest for a public ethic -- Knowledge and responsibility -- Earth day -- Symbol and reality -- Medieval community and the rise of modernity -- The economic revolution -- Morality and the marketplace -- Modern society and social theory -- The idea of the public -- The pluralist concept of politics -- Individualism as a form of social thought -- Individualism in America -- Public speech versus bureaucratic language -- Core values in the American liberal tradition -- Religion and property -- The American Indian -- Liberty, equality, and slavery -- The self as person-in-community -- The information society -- The television culture -- The citizen as consumer -- What is my personal relation to what I don't know? -- Churches as public interest groups -- Moral imagination and hope.
ISBN
  • 0934540853
  • 9780934540858
LCCN
91006821
OCLC
  • ocm23141041
  • 23141041
  • SCSB-1916340
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library