Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists

Susan Neiman is a moral philosopher committed to making the tools of her trade relevant to real life. In "Moral Clarity, "she shows how resurrecting a moral vocabulary--"good "and "evil, heroism "and "nobility"--can steer us clear of the dogmas of the right and the helpless pragmatism of the left. In search of a framework for forming clear opinions and taking responsible action on today's urgent political and social questions, Neiman reaches back to the eighteenth century, retrieving a set of virtues--happiness, reason, reverence, and hope--that were held high by every Enlightenment thinker. She shows that the pursuit of moral clarity is not a matter of religious faith but is open to all who are committed to these ideals, believers and nonbelievers alike. And she draws on literature, evolutionarytheory, and other contemporary research to show why, by keeping before us the distinction between the real and the possible, these ideals continue to guide and inspire.

ISBN 0151011974   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780151011971 (What's this?)   Pages 467 Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)   Volumes 1 Imprint HARCOURT BRACE & CO   Weight (grammes) 695 Format Hardback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 01 May 2008   Width (mm) 162 Library of Congress 2007042852   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY 170   Academic level Tertiary education

Pt. 1		Ideal and Real
1		American Dreams		25
2		Ideals and Ideology		48
3		Facing Gallows		79
Pt. 2		Enlightenment Values
4		Myths or Monsters		107
5		Heaven and Earth		124
6		Happiness		150
7		Reason		177
8		Reverence		215
9		Hope		242
Pt. 3		Good and Evil
10		The Odyssey: An Excursion		289
11		What about Evil?		325
12		Enlightenment Heroes		372
13		Moral Clarity		415
		Acknowledgments		431
		Bibliographical Notes		433
		Bibliography		441
		Permissions Acknowledgments		451
		Index		453

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