The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal - Couverture rigide

MacLeod, Adam J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1475854242 ISBN 13 : 9781475854244

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Adam J. MacLeod is Professor of Law at Faulkner University and a former research fellow at Princeton University and George Mason University. He is co-editor of two textbooks and author of Property and Practical Reason (Cambridge University Press 2015) and dozens of articles, essays, and book reviews in academic journals and journals of popular opinion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1475854242
• ISBN 13: 9781475854244
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne