The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World
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The Tyranny of Liberalism. Social Justice in the Liberal State. What Should I Do? Law in Everyday Life. Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning. Morality and Moral Controversies. Moral Status and Human Life. How Should We Live? The Moral Defense of Homosexuality. A General Theory of Domination and Justice.
Human Rights as Social Construction. The Evolution of Moral Progress. Democracy and Moral Conflict. Tolerance and Dissent within Education. Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights. The Culture of Conformism. Revenge and Social Conflict. Children's Right to Freedom, Care and Enlightenment. Membership and Moral Formation.
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The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World
Return to Book Page. The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: Che The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: Cheryl Mendelson reminds us how far these trends have taken us from our roots, and how a humane democracy, with its freedoms, depends on the moral sense of its citizens. Medelson gives clear-sighted descriptions, free of ideology, of what morality really is, tracing it to its psychological roots, and of the antimoralism behind familiar cultural tics like authoritarianism, the culture of "cool," irrationalist movements in politics and religion, and the sterility of academic attempts to understand the moral life.
Along the way, she gives a clear, persuasive explanation of why moral truth exists and why believing this doesn't force us to be dogmatic and judgmental. Mendelson's book is a bracing polemic, but it is also inspiring and, with its eye-opening analysis of the moral mentality, an education in what it means to be moral in an antimoral world.
Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Good Life , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Oct 19, Claudia rated it it was ok Shelves: Who would have thought that an author of a homemaking book would also write a philosophical treatise about morality? Among her points are that there are four groups of people in the world: She writes a lot about how the American way of life, and the "offended narcissism" of modern life, contribute to a lack of morality across political persuasions.
Interesting book Who would have thought that an author of a homemaking book would also write a philosophical treatise about morality? Interesting book but not a ton of help to the book project. Oct 05, Cheryl rated it it was ok. Liked the concept and feel like I should have been a sympathetic reader, but found it too idiosyncratic in its definitions, as well as too abstract "the moral mind" is talked about as if it were an entity unto itself.
The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe. The Good Life is an engaging, reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality, how the fringe political.
I do like her attempts to reframe what is moral and take to task both the "cool" Left and the self-satisfied Right -- but could not get past the approach, which seemed to lack intellectual rigor. Oct 17, Sylvia Johnson rated it liked it Shelves: I especially liked the first part of the book as it rings true and gave me much food for thought.
However the last part sometimes felt like a harangue against scientists and psychologists whom she feels should not speak about ethics since it is not their field. She feels that they are leading our society away from true morality. Jun 10, Alan Hughes rated it liked it Shelves: This was an enjoyable read which does suggest an alternative way of looking at morals and the moral individual.
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She does propose some ideas which accord with my view of the current changes in our culture. It is perhaps over long and her reliance on Freudian writers'support for some of the psychological insights do weaken her case. Sep 17, Irus rated it did not like it Shelves: I started this book over the weekend. Almost immediately I was bored and annoyed.
I was going to try and push through, but instead I read this review link below and am calling it a done deal.
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