Author : Michael Novak
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Bridges the gap between the Catholic idea of commonwealth and Protestant liberal tradition.
Author : Matthew W. Finkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300155549
This book offers a concise explanation of the history and meaning of American academic freedom, and it attempts to intervene in contemporary debates by clarifying the fundamental functions and purposes of academic freedom in America.--From publisher description.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781878825087
"How adroitly he cuts through the crap and really says something", describes "The Village Voice" of world-famous political writer and lecturer Noam Chomsky. In his latest report on the state of the world, Chomsky discusses a breathtaking variety of topics, ranging from Japan's trade policies to the "war" on drugs, corporate welfare, and much more.
Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,19 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0525436375
Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it, one of which America has been experiencing for the past five decades. This process can and must be reversed. But first we need to weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how we relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of leadership. Powerful, urgent, and utterly vital, this is a heartfelt missive from one of our foremost political thinkers.
Author : Alex John London
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Medical
ISBN : 019753483X
Alex John London defends a conception of the common good that grounds a moral imperative with two requirements. The first is to promote research that enables key social institutions to effectively, efficiently and equitably safeguard the basic interests of individuals. The second is to ensure that research is organized as a voluntary scheme of social cooperation that respects its various contributors' moral claim to be treated as free and equal. Connecting research to the goals of a just social order grounds a framework for assessing and managing research risk that reconciles these requirements and justifies key oversight practices in non-paternalistic terms. The result is a new understanding of research ethics that resolves coordination problems that threaten these goals and provides credible assurance that the requirements of this imperative are being met.--
Author : Dennis McCann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2005-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567027702
Biblical scholars and theologians search for the meaning of the common good for our time.
Author : Katrine Evans
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780864733627
A range of contributors discuss biblical and theological interpretations of human rights issues and consider the "radical critique provided by liberation theology".
Author : José I. Lavastida
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780761815259
Studies the situation related to access to health care in the US. Approaches the problem first by analyzing its history, then synthesizing different philosophical and practical solutions that have been attempted in order to reform health care, and finally presents and analyzes ways to solve problems of access to health using an ethical approach nourished according to the guidance offered by the teachings of the Catholic Church. Lacks a subject index.
Author : Michael Novak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780742511712
Throughout his many writings, Michael Novak, one of the leading Catholic social theorists of our times, has urged us to adopt a tripartite system of democratic capitalism including a market economy, a democratic polity, and a moral-cultural system that would nourish the values and virtues on which free societies depend. Three in One introduces the reader to Novak's portrait of democratic capitalism.
Author : Edward Wayne Younkins
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739130536
This book is constructed around great thinkers of the past and present who have been influential in developing the philosophy of freedom. Its main purpose is to provide a survey and overview of the ideas of leading individual philosophers and economists of capitalism who have contributed to developing what might be called the classical liberal or libertarian worldview. Champions of a Free Society endeavors to provide a guide to political and economic thinking about the desirability and construction of a free society that is intelligible to the educated layperson. Edward Younkins provides an historical perspective of the pursuit of political and economic truth. The goal of this book is to present the development of ideas in language that permits generally educated readers to understand and appreciate their significance. The book's chronological approach considers the thinkers and their ideas as they have developed over the course of time. There is much unfulfilled illuminative potential to be found in the ideas of the past and Younkins successfully integrates the ideas of past and current thinkers into a logical contemporary worldview.
