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Title: The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit, Naomi Goldblum ISBN: 0-674-19436-5 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Summary: Humiliation, Rights and Honor: What is a decent society?
Comment: Have you ever pondered the question, What is a decent society? Does the thought keep you awake at night, wondering, is the society in which I live decent?, and if not, do we sincerely ask oursleves, for example, am I decent anyway? and if not, and so on, do I need to do anything to change that situation?
In this book, Avishai Margalit explains how he constructed his moral philosophy based on the following: a decent society or civilized society is one in which the institutions of that society do not humiliate people who are subject to their authority, and in which no citizen humilates another citizen or themselves. Avishai Margalit goes on to argue that what is more important is not a "just society" but a "decent society", based on the equilibrium between liberty and equality, a society where cruelty and humiliation has been completely erradicated.
This books influence should reach far beyond the confined bounds of formal philosphical debate and should be championed - or at least taken very seriously - by all decent and prospective politicians everywhere. Not since Rousseau himself has anyone approached the subject with such intelligence and passion as has Avishai Margalit. Reading this book, was for me, like living a really extraordinary experience, as I sure it will be for you.
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Title: The Ethics of Memory : by Avishai Margalit ISBN: 067400941X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Breaking the Cycles of Hatred : Memory, Law, and Repair by Martha Minow, Nancy L. Rosenblum ISBN: 0691096635 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser, Axel Honneth, Joel Golb, James Ingram, Christiane Wilke ISBN: 1859844928 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: 11 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Identity in Democracy by Amy Gutmann ISBN: 069109652X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Claims of Culture : Equality and Diversity in the Global Era by Seyla Benhabib ISBN: 0691048630 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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