The moral commonwealth : social theory and the promise of community
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The moral commonwealth : social theory and the promise of community
University of California Press, 1994, c1992
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Note
"A Centennial book"
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
First published in 1992, first paperback printing 1994
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Philip Selznick's study of moral and social theory establishes the intellectual foundations of an important new movement in American thought: communitarianism. Emerging in part as a response to the excesses of American individualism - particularly rampant during the 1980s - communitarianism seeks to restore the balance between individual rights and social responsibilities. The Moral Commonwealth attempts to explain and justify this communitarian turn and give it a liberal interpretation.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART ONE MORALITY AND MODERNITY
1. Nature, Ethics, and the Modern Mind
Modernity and Modernisms
Naturalism in Ethics
Moral Well-being
2. Reason and Rationalism
Rationalism and Positivism
Five Pillars of Reason
3. Authenticity and Subjectivism
From Mind to Self
Subjectivity and Social Reality
Subjectivity and Subjectivism
4. Plurality and Relativism
Diversity and Convergence
The Idea of Humanity
Plurality and Objectivity
PART TWO THE MORAL PERSON
5. Human Nature Revisited
Sociology and Human Nature
Marx and Durkheim
6. Moral Development
Conscience and Competence
The Morality of Cooperation
Recalcitrance and Frailty
7. Virtue and Commitment
Segmental and Core Participation
The Primacy of the Particular
The Implicated Self
8. The Responsible Self
Self-preservation
Integrity and Personhood
Buddhist Self-regard
Conclusion
PART THREE THE MORAL INSTITUTION
9. Theory of Institutions
Organization~ Institution~Community
Rational Systems and Moral Agency
The Michels Effect
The Critique of Domination
10. Authority and Bureaucracy
Legitimacy: The Quality of Consent
The Moral Worth of Bureaucracy
Beyond Domination
11. Management and Governance
Speech and Community
Private Government
The Politics of Human Relations
12. Integrity and Responsibility
Ends, Means, and Integrity
Autonomy and Responsiveness
The Responsible Enterprise
PART FOUR THE MORAL COMMUNITY
13. In Search of Community
The Sociology of Community
Liberalism and Community
14. Civility and Piety
Critical and Conventional Morality
Ideology and Civility
Civility and Religion
15. Communitarian Justice
An Integrative Virtue
From Law to Justice
A Communitarian Legacy
Constitution and Community
Responsive Law
16. Covenant and Commonwealth
Moral and Social Equality
Communal Democracy
The Covenant of Reason
Name Index
Subject Index
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