Moral Reconstruction

Author : Gaines M. Foster
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860168

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Moral Reconstruction by Gaines M. Foster Pdf

Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force behind this unprecedented federal regulation of personal morality--a combined Christian lobby. Foster analyzes the fears of appetite and avarice that led organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Reform Association to call for moral legislation and examines the efforts and interconnections of the men and women who lobbied for it. His account underscores the crucial role white southerners played in the rise of moral reform after 1890. With emancipation, white southerners no longer needed to protect slavery from federal intervention, and they seized on moral legislation as a tool for controlling African Americans. Enriching our understanding of the aftermath of the Civil War and the expansion of national power, Moral Reconstruction also offers valuable insight into the link between historical and contemporary efforts to legislate morality.

Author : Charles Walston
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Truth. an Essay in Moral Reconstruction. by Charles Walston Pdf

Author : William J. Barber (II),Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807083604

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The Third Reconstruction by William J. Barber (II),Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Pdf

"In the summer of 2013, Moral Mondays gained national attention as tens of thousands of citizens protested the extreme makeover of North Carolina's state government and over a thousand people were arrested in the largest mass civil disobedience movement since the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. Every Monday for 13 weeks, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber led a revival meeting on the state house lawn that brought together educators and the unemployed, civil rights and labor activists, young and old, documented and undocumented, gay and straight, black, white and brown. News reporters asked what had happened in state politics to elicit such a spontaneous outcry. But most coverage missed the seven years of coalition building and organizing work that led up to Moral Mondays and held forth a vision for America that would sustain the movement far beyond a mass mobilization in one state. A New Reconstruction is Rev. Barber's memoir of the Forward Together Moral Movement, which began seven years before Moral Mondays and extends far beyond the mass mobilizations of 2013. Drawing on decades of experience in the Southern freedom struggle, Rev. Barber explains how Moral Mondays were not simply a reaction to corporately sponsored extremism that aims to re-make America through state legislatures. Moral Mondays were, instead, a tactical escalation in the Forward Together Moral Movement to draw attention to the anti-democratic forces bent on serving special interests to the detriment of the common good"--

Author : Saïd Amir Arjomand
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047427841

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Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction by Saïd Amir Arjomand Pdf

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary comparison of the dominant trends in constitutional developments and legal change across different regions of the world in the last half century, bringing together the constitution-making of the post-colonial era with the post-communist political reconstruction and globalization of constitutionalism.

Author : D. S. Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015026263023

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Christian Ethics; Or, The True Moral Manhood and Life of Duty by D. S. Gregory Pdf

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781605203461

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Reconstruction in Philosophy by John Dewey Pdf

Though best remembered today as a philosopher of early-childhood education through his influential 1899 work The School and Society and the essay The Child and the Curriculum, John Dewey also expended considerable thought on the progress of philosophy itself. In this striking book, first published just after the First World War in 1920, Dewey considers how, why, and when human affairs should prompt a new approach to concepts of morality and justice. How should the revelations of science in the 20th century, and its consequential technology, impact human thought? Is seeing knowledge as power philosophical supportable and desirable? Must we redefine what it means to be idealist? Where do politics and philosophy intersect? Deweys bracing explorations of these questions, and others, continue to enthrall thinking people and continue to be vitally relevantnearly a century after they were written. American educator and philosopher JOHN DEWEY (18591952) helped found the American Association of University Professors. He served as professor of philosophy at Columbia University from 1904 to 1930 and authored numerous books, including Experience and Nature (1925), Experience and Education (1938), and Freedom and Culture (1939).

Author : Clyde A. Milner,Brian Q. Cannon
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806165868

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Reconstruction and Mormon America by Clyde A. Milner,Brian Q. Cannon Pdf

The South has been the standard focus of Reconstruction, but reconstruction following the Civil War was not a distinctly Southern experience. In the post–Civil War West, American Indians also experienced reconstruction through removal to reservations and assimilation to Christianity, and Latter-day Saints—Mormons—saw government actions to force the end of polygamy under threat of disestablishing the church. These efforts to bring nonconformist Mormons into the American mainstream figure in the more familiar scheme of the federal government’s reconstruction—aimed at rebellious white Southerners and uncontrolled American Indians. In this volume, more than a dozen contributors look anew at the scope of the reconstruction narrative and offer a unique perspective on the history of the Latter-day Saints. Marshaled by editors Clyde A. Milner II and Brian Q. Cannon, these writers explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians. Other contributions examine the effect of the government’s policies on Mormon identity and sense of history. Why, for example, do Latter-day Saints not have a Lost Cause? Do they share a resentment with American Indians over the loss of sovereignty? And were nineteenth-century Mormons considered to be on the “wrong” side of a religious line, but not a “race line”? The authors consider these and other vital questions and topics here. Together, and in dialogue with one another, their work suggests a new way of understanding the regional, racial, and religious dynamics of reconstruction—and, within this framework, a new way of thinking about the creation of a Mormon historical identity.

Author : Mingran Tan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030802639

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Wang Fuzhi’s Reconstruction of Confucianism by Mingran Tan Pdf

Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692), a Ming loyalist, was forced to find solutions for both cultural and political crises of his time. In this book Mingran Tan provides a comprehensive review of Wang Fuzhi’s understanding of historical events and his interpretation of the Confucian classics. Tan explains what kind of Confucian system Wang Fuzhi was trying to construct according to his motto, “The Six Classics require me to create something new”. He sought a basis for Confucian values such as filial piety, humanity and ritual propriety from political, moral and cosmological perspectives, arguing that they could cultivate a noble personality, beatify political governance, and improve social and cosmological harmony. This inspired Wang Fuzhi’s attempt to establish a syncretic blend of the three branches of Neo-Confucianism, i.e., Zhu Xi’s (1130-1200) philosophy of principle , Wang Yangming’s (1472-1529) philosophy of mind and Zhang Zai’s (1020-1077) philosophy of qi (material force). The most thorough work on Wang Fuzhi available in English, this study corrects some general misunderstanding of the nature of Wang Fuzhi’s philosophy and helps readers to understand Wang Fuzhi from an organic perspective. Building upon previous scholars’ research on Wang Fuzhi’s notion of moral cultivation, Tan gives a comprehensive understanding of how Wang Fuzhi improves social and cosmological harmony through compliance with Confucian rituals.

Author : Richard Quinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:609424878

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Providence by Richard Quinney Pdf

Author : Todd Lekan
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0826514219

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Making Morality by Todd Lekan Pdf

In this new contribution to moral theory, Todd Lekan argues for a pragmatist conception of morality as an evolving, educational, and fallible practice of everyday life. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, Lekan asserts that moral norms are neither timeless truths nor subjective whims, but habits transmitted through practices. Like the habits that make up medicine or engineering, moral habits are subject to rational evaluation and change according to new challenges and circumstances. This pragmatic interpretation of morality provides a way out of the conundrum of relativism and absolutism. Building on classical American philosophy to address current philosophical concerns, Lekan's theory revises our basic understanding of moral life and the place of theorizing within that life. Making Morality will prove of great interest to ethical theorists, as it enjoins them to measure theoretical inquiries by how well they produce intellectual tools for problem-solving in dynamic, complex communities.

Author : Gregory Fernando Pappas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9780253351401

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John Dewey's Ethics by Gregory Fernando Pappas Pdf

A thorough, definitive account of Dewey's ethics

Author : E. Imafidon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137472427

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The Ethics of Subjectivity by E. Imafidon Pdf

Through the works of key figures in ethics since modernity this book charts a shift from dominant fixated, objective moral systems and the dependence on moral authorities such as God, nature and state to universal, formal, fallible, individualistic and/or vulnerable moral systems that ensue from the modern subject's exercise of reason and freedom.

Author : Masudul Alam Choudhury
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137589477

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Absolute Reality in the Qur'an by Masudul Alam Choudhury Pdf

This book studies the absolute reality of the Qur’an, which is signified by the struggle of truth against falsehood in the framework of monotheistic unity of knowledge and the unified world-system induced by the consilience of knowledge. In such a framework the absolute reality reveals itself not by religious dogmatism. Rather, the methodology precisely comprises its distinctive parts. These are namely the ‘primal ontology’ as the foundational explained axiom of monotheistic unity; the ‘secondary ontologies’ as explanatory replications of the law of unity in the particulars of the world-system; ‘epistemology’ as the operational model; and ‘phenomenology’ as the structural nature of events induced by the monotheistic law, that is by knowledge emanating from the law. The imminent methodology remains the unique explanatory reference of all events that take place, advance, and change in continuity across continuums of knowledge, space, and time.

Author : Margaret Urban Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139457545

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Moral Repair by Margaret Urban Walker Pdf

Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic examples of both personal betrayal and political violence to analyze how moral bonds are damaged by serious wrongs and what must be done to repair the damage. Focusing on victims of wrong, their right to validation, and their sense of justice, Walker presents a unified and detailed philosophical account of hope, trust, resentment, forgiveness, and making amends - the emotions and practices that sustain moral relations. Moral Repair joins a multidisciplinary literature concerned with transitional and restorative justice, reparations, and restoring individual dignity and mutual trust in the wake of serious wrongs.

Author : William Leonard Courtney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Ethics
ISBN : PRNC:32101066077064

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Constructive Ethics by William Leonard Courtney Pdf