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Jimmy Carter, American Moralist
| Author | : Kenneth E. Morris |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 1997-10-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780820319490 |
In the first full-scale biography of America's 39th president since 1980, Kenneth Morris shows readers that any conclusions about Carter's leadership and the adequacy of his challenges as a president cannot ignore the moral quandary that vexed the nation. 35 photos.
The American Moralist
| Author | : George Anastaplo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
The essays collected here, somewhat autobiographical in their effect, range from a discussion of the despair of the Cold War and Vietnam in 1966 to reflections on the euphoria over the ending of the Cold War in Eastern Europe in 1990. The opening essays are general in nature: exploring the foundation and limitation of sound morality; examining what is "American" about American morality; measuring all by the yardsticks provided by classical and modern philosophers. Anastaplo's overriding concern here is to show how one can be moral without being either cranky or moralistic. He then turns his attention to the issues of the day: the first amendment, religious liberty, women and the law, gun control, medicine, capital punishment, local politics, civil disobedience.
The American Moralist
| Author | : George Anastaplo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
The essays collected here, somewhat autobiographical in their effect, range from a discussion of the despair of the Cold War and Vietnam in 1966 to reflections on the euphoria over the ending of the Cold War in Eastern Europe in 1990. The opening essays are general in nature: exploring the foundation and limitation of sound morality; examining what is "American" about American morality; measuring all by the yardsticks provided by classical and modern philosophers. Anastaplo's overriding concern here is to show how one can be moral without being either cranky or moralistic. He then turns his attention to the issues of the day: the first amendment, religious liberty, women and the law, gun control, medicine, capital punishment, local politics, civil disobedience.
Dropping the Torch
| Author | : Nicholas Evan Sarantakes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0521194776 |
Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy détente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.
Changes in American Morality
| Author | : Frank S. Farello |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2001-07-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0595192130 |
CHANGES IN AMERICAN MORALITY: OF THE PEOPLE; BY THE PEOPLE; FOR THE SELF, contends that America has lost touch with the fundamental ethics of its founding principles. This, coupled with the deleterious effects of individualism; liberalism; materialism, and relegating religion to the fringes of the public forum, has undermined America’s achievement of a truly “common good.” The result is a serious deterioration of our former collectively conceived moral compass in favor of a more personally composed moral code. This code often blurs the boundaries between “right and wrong” as the attainment of an unbridled “self-satisfaction” takes precedence above all else. Therefore, America has become a nation of competing individuals, each seeking to extract ever-increasing levels of personal pleasure and fulfillment from every possible source, often at the expense of our collective civil and social associations; our local communities—even our families. With the works of the Founders and many of America’s recent and modern social thinkers as references, Mr. Farello achieves a thorough examination and explanation of the evolution of many of America’s current social ills, and arrives at a number of solid solutions to those problems. This book is must reading for anyone concerned with American society’s current direction.
America's Economic Moralists
| Author | : Donald E. Frey |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2009-02-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0791493660 |
Traces the history of two rival American economic moralities from colonial times to the present.
Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
| Author | : American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 1915 |
| Genre | : Catholics |
| ISBN | : |
But Not Philosophy
| Author | : George Anastaplo |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780739102909 |
George Anastaplo has written brilliantly and persuasively about ancient and modern Western political philosophy and literature and about American Constitutional history and law. With his latest book Anastaplo turns away from his areas of admitted expertise to offer, in his own words, "the explorations of a determined amateur with some practice in reading." The essays contained in this volume were originally conceived as a set of seminars, each culminating in a public lecture, which in turn formed the basis for contributions to Encyclopedia Brittanica's 1961-1998 series The Great Ideas Today. Gathered in this one volume, But Not Philosophy provides useful and thought-provoking introductions to seven major "schools" of non-Western thought: Mesopotamian, ancient African, Hindu, Confucian, Buddhist, Islamic, and North American Indian. Anastaplo studies ancient literary epics and legal codes and examines religious traditions and systems of thought, providing detailed references to authoritative histories and commentators. Movingly and thoughtfully written, the essays encourage readers to bring their own Western traditions under similar scrutiny, to study our own grasp of the divine, reliance upon nature and causality, and dependence on philosophy-to learn about what we are from what we are not.
