Morality Usa

Friedman, Ellen G

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Author
Friedman, Ellen G
Publish Date
07/01/1998
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
UMINN
Number of Pages
312
Edition
First Edition
ISBN-10
0816627495
ISBN-13
9780816627493
SKU
9780816627493

Description

Morality USA traces our ethical conundrum to rapid social change and events that have acted as moral breaks with the past. The Holocaust, the Kennedy and King assassinations, the civil rights and antiwar movements of the sixties, feminist and gay rights campaigns, Watergate, the Hill-Thomas hearings, and the Clinton sex scandals have progressively eroded confidence in moral universals. Stripped of grand moral narratives, people are left with mere cost-benefit analyses of their ethical options or with only a personal sense of right and wrong, a privatized moral order.