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Age of Selfies

Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal
  • ISBN-13: 9781475854251
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Adam J. MacLeod
  • Price: AUD $63.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 15/03/2020
  • Format: Paperback 168 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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This book diagnoses an unexamined cause of the incivility in our public discourse. Our most contentious controversies today are moral. We disagree not only about questions of efficiency and democracy and civil liberties but also about what is right to do and who we are becoming as a people. We have not yet understood the implications of this shift in public reasoning from discourse about political ideals to debates about moral imperatives. The book prescribes a way to educate ourselves and our young people how to disagree well. We are not able to engage in moral discourse effectively because our educational programs are still organized around obsolete principles of political neutrality. Meanwhile, our young people have learned to bend moral claims in service to self-authorship. Also, different groups of us look to different sources of moral truth. Further complicating our efforts, different generations use the same language to refer to different moral ideas. The book suggests principles for a practical education that is robustly moral, that will enable us to understand and overcome these new challenges. And it lays out a framework for flourishing together in society despite our radical differences.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Return of Morals (and the End of Neutrality)
Chapter 2: Understanding Each Other
Chapter 3: A Collection of Selfies
Chapter 4: The Practical Question
Chapter 5: Rights Without Duties, Wrongs Without Right
Chapter 6: The Idea of Truth
Chapter 7: Should and Must Not
Chapter 8: The Sa Word
Chapter 9: The Power of Indifference
Chapter 10: Doing Difference Well
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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Return of Morals (and the End of Neutrality) Chapter 2: Understanding Each Other Chapter 3: A Collection of Selfies Chapter 4: The Practical Question Chapter 5: Rights Without Duties, Wrongs Without Right Chapter 6: The Idea of Truth Chapter 7: Should and Must Not Chapter 8: The "S" Word Chapter 9: The Power of Indifference Chapter 10: Doing Difference Well Postscript
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