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Book SynopsisThis book diagnoses an unexamined cause of the incivility in our public discourse. Our most contentious controversies today are moral. We disagree not only about questions of efficiency and democracy and civil liberties but also about what is right to do and who we are becoming as a people. We have not yet understood the implications of this shift in public reasoning from discourse about political ideals to debates about moral imperatives.The book prescribes a way to educate ourselves and our young people how to disagree well. We are not able to engage in moral discourse effectively because our educational programs are still organized around obsolete principles of political neutrality. Meanwhile, our young people have learned to bend moral claims in service to self-authorship. Also, different groups of us look to different sources of moral truth. Further complicating our efforts, different generations use the same language to refer to different moral ideas. The book suggests principles
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Return of Morals (and the End of Neutrality) Chapter 2: Understanding Each Other Chapter 3: A Collection of Selfies Chapter 4: The Practical Question Chapter 5: Rights Without Duties, Wrongs Without Right Chapter 6: The Idea of Truth Chapter 7: Should and Must Not Chapter 8: The “S” Word Chapter 9: The Power of Indifference Chapter 10: Doing Difference Well Postscript
