ISBN:
058532039X
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9780585320397
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 242 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Open moral communities
DDC:
307
Keywords:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
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Communities Moral and ethical aspects
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Communication Social aspects
;
Communities
;
Cultural pluralism
;
Communication Social aspects
;
Communities Moral and ethical aspects
;
Communication Social aspects
;
Cultural pluralism
;
Communities
;
Communities Moral and ethical aspects
;
Communication Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Essays
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Communities
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Communities ; Moral and ethical aspects
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Cultural pluralism
;
Ethik
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Gemeinde
;
Politische Ethik
;
Politische Ordnung
;
Pluralismus
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Gesellschaft
;
Wertordnung
;
Gemeenschap (sociologie)
;
Ethische aspecten
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A Communitarian Sensibility --Moral Orders and Communities --Deserving Communities --Three Communal Myths --Community and Communication --Public Orders --Theory --Stories --Times --Tools --Cities --Plans --Moral Claims --MOVE and the Poetics of Redemption --Ethical Mandates and the Virtue of Prudence --Liberal Republics and the Open Field.
Abstract:
Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. To do so, they must recruit, socialize, and discipline members; distinguish between members and strangers; collect resources; and cultivate a domain of competence. The communitarian sensibility is a disposition to assess the impact of innovative opportunities and compelling moral claims on the design, repair, and dissolution of communities and communal fields with a healthy skepticism about unlikely strategies. The book is divided into three parts. The first part sets out the role of communities in the creation of moral orders and discusses the implications of three prevalent myths about community. The second part discusses six terms--theory, story, time, city, tool, and plan--that figure prominently in both professional and lay constructions of public orders. The third part presents two cases in which ambiguous moral claims for redemption and justice challenge the pluralism of the open myth. One concerns exclusionary zoning in New Jersey, the other the 1985 attack on the MOVE compound in West Philadelphia. Mandelbaum's blending of moral philosophy and concrete examples concludes with an account of citizenship in liberal republics
Description / Table of Contents:
A Communitarian SensibilityMoral Orders and CommunitiesDeserving CommunitiesThree Communal MythsCommunity and CommunicationPublic OrdersTheoryStoriesTimesToolsCitiesPlansMoral ClaimsMOVE and the Poetics of RedemptionEthical Mandates and the Virtue of PrudenceLiberal Republics and the Open Field.
Note:
Some chapters previously published in various journals. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Some chapters previously published in various journals
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