Explores the moral terrain of America, analyzing the widely held perception that the nation is in moral decline. This book looks at the question from a variety of angles, examining traditional values, secular values, religious values, family values, economic values, and others
"This book explores the moral terrain of America today, analyzing the widely held perception that the nation is in moral decline. It looks at the question from a variety of angles, examining traditional values, secular values, religious values, family values, economic values, an…
Is America bitterly divided? Has America lost its traditional values? Many politicians and religious leaders believe so, as do the majority of Americans, based on public opinion polls taken over the past several years. But is this crisis of values real? This book explores the mo…
Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious -- part of our "hard-wired" brain circuitry. When confronted with facts that don't f…
Moral politics: how liberals and conservatives think
When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to …
When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to …
"The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the secular: instead, they are clas…
"Power, Privilege, and Entitlement situates entitlement among related terms that help explain inequality, such as power and privilege. This chapter defines entitlement and details the way entitlement is measured. Experiments that assess entitlement find reliable differences in w…
The political context producing the Donald Trump presidency put into stark relief the confusion, feelings of victimization, and rage of some constituencies that voted for him. 'Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged' explores the role of entitlement in fostering inequality in the United …
"Power, Privilege, and Entitlement situates entitlement among related terms that help explain inequality, such as power and privilege. This chapter defines entitlement and details the way entitlement is measured. Experiments that assess entitlement find reliable differences in w…
"Power, Privilege, and Entitlement situates entitlement among related terms that help explain inequality, such as power and privilege. This chapter defines entitlement and details the way entitlement is measured. Experiments that assess entitlement find reliable differences in w…
Sixteen thoughtful writers consider character cultivation. Richard Reeves introduces this collection of short essays with a challenge: ""I defy you to find a richer set of writings on the philosophical, empirical, and practical issues raised by a focus on character, and in parti…
Sixteen thoughtful writers consider character cultivation. Richard Reeves introduces this collection of short essays with a challenge: ""I defy you to find a richer set of writings on the philosophical, empirical, and practical issues raised by a focus on character, and in parti…
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores ofRace: Equality After the Hi…