Social Ethics: An Examination of American Moral TraditionsWestminster John Knox Press, 01/01/1990 - 213 páginas Roger Betsworth introduces ethics by focusing on the cultural narratives that shape American images of self and world: the biblical story, the American gospel of success, the idea of wellbeing, and the global mission of America. These cultural narratives display the ways in which the sense of self and world, and therefore ethical vision, is fundamentally conflicted. |
Índice
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Biblical Story | 25 |
The Gospel of Success in America | 53 |
The Story of Wellbeing | 81 |
The Mission of America | 107 |
The Outsiders | 138 |
Conclusion | 178 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 201 |
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