Core actors in America : a vital view of human moral nature and political change / Stephen Terhune Smith
- Bib ID:
- 4226062
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Stephen Terhune, 1943-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- New York : Lexington Books, 2007
- xii,256 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780739117668
- 0739117661
- Summary:
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"Core Actors in America challenges the ontological assumptions of liberalism, America's dominant public philosophy, and its more affectionate subordinate, communitarianism. Neither provides a sufficiently robust account of who we are and what we are capable of achieving in the social and political arenas. Stephen Terhune Smith presents an alterantive view that focuses on the worldview and historical impact of core actors - morally informed nonconformists who initiate major social and political changes - who ultimately become part of our institutional landscape. Acting in venues of all sizes, these core actors not only call for profound alterations in our relationships to each other and the world, but also demonstrate that such changes are possible. This book developes a theoretical framework that combines historical research with contemporary interviews that reveal patterns of moral knowledge and action across generations.
Core Actors in America is a text that will appeal to those interested in political theory and philosophical analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Our Enlightenment misapprehensions
- 3. Enlightened community
- 4. The nature of action and our capacity to act : a pair of nineteenth century core actors
- 5. Morally informed action : two examples from the Progressive era
- 6. Some contemporary actors
- 7. The capacity to care
- 8. The capacity to learn and to know.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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