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presented the Durkheimian vision of society, favored by social conservatives, in which the basic social unit is the family, rather than the individual, and in which order, hierarchy, and tradition are highly valued. I contrasted this vision with the liberal Millian vision, which is more open and individualistic. I noted that a Millian society has d
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
We must ask more of them.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
Our social skills are currently inadequate to the pluralistic societies we are living in.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Taylor argues: “Our age makes higher demands of solidarity and benevolence on people today than ever before.”
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
version that doesn’t assume that our opponents are intellectually or morally bankrupt.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
If liberals offered a political discourse emptied of religious content, they would “forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice.”
Michael J. Sandel • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
THE PEOPLE QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
morality of capitalism,