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The American Moralist. On Law, Ethics and Government.
George Anastaplo
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Description for The American Moralist. On Law, Ethics and Government.
Hardback. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
Number of Pages
632
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821410011
SKU
V9780821410011
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About George Anastaplo
George Anastaplo teaches constitutional law and jurisprudence at Loyola University of Chicago and is also a lecturer in liberal arts at the University of Chicago. In 1950, he was denied admission to the Illinois bar because of his principled refusal to answer questions about his political associations. He took his case to the Supreme Court and lost in 1961. Justice ... Read more
Reviews for The American Moralist. On Law, Ethics and Government.
“…The American Moralist is a cogent and discursive compendium of the principled foundations and perennially recurring challenges to American civil life.”
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