Small Comforts for Hard Times: Humanists on Public Policy 9780231890656
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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Foreword
Introduction
Justice and Human Equality
1. Justice—Compensatory and Distributive
2. Equality, Race, and Preferential Treatment
3. The Costs of Equality
4. The Costs of Inequality: In Response to Robert A. Nisbet
5. Justice, Equality, and the Economic System
6. Equality and Fraternity: A Note on Subjective Realities
Private Rights and the Public Good
7. Private Rights and the Public Good
8. Public Rights and Private Interests: In Response to Charles Frankel
9. On Privacy and Community
10. Do Rocks Have Rights? Thoughts on Environmental Ethics
Technology and the Ideal of Human Progress
11. Living with Scarcity
12. The Technology of Life and Death
13. Biomedical Progress and the Limits of Human Health
14. Technology and the Structuring of Cities
15. The Aesthetics of Technology: In Response to David P. Billington
War and the Social Order
16. On National Frontiers: Ethnic Homogeneity and Pluralism
17. The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem
18. Reflections on War, Utopias, and Temporary Systems
Education and the Good Society
19. The University and American Society
20. The University, Society, and the Critical Temper: In Response to George W. Pierson
21. Some Questions in General Education Today
22. Some Inconsistent Educational Aims
23. The Disestablished Humanities
24. A View from the Ivory Tower: In Response to Rosemary Park
The Humanities and Public Policy
25. A Philosophic Perspective
Notes
Index
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