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Open moral communities / Seymour J. Mandelbaum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058532039X
  • 9780585320397
  • 0262279002
  • 9780262279000
  • 0262263696
  • 9780262263696
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Open moral communities.DDC classification:
  • 307 21
LOC classification:
  • HM756 .M36 2000eb
Other classification:
  • 71.11
Online resources:
Contents:
A Communitarian Sensibility -- Moral Orders and Communities -- Deserving Communities -- Three Communal Myths -- Community and Communication -- Public Orders -- Theory -- Stories -- Times -- Tools -- Cities -- Plans -- Moral Claims -- MOVE and the Poetics of Redemption -- Ethical Mandates and the Virtue of Prudence -- Liberal Republics and the Open Field.
Summary: Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. To do so, they must recruit, socialize, and discipline members; distinguish between members and strangers; collect resources; and cultivate a domain of competence. The communitarian sensibility is a disposition to assess the impact of innovative opportunities and compelling moral claims on the design, repair, and dissolution of communities and communal fields with a healthy skepticism about unlikely strategies. The book is divided into three parts. The first part sets out the role of communities in the creation of moral orders and discusses the implications of three prevalent myths about community. The second part discusses six terms--theory, story, time, city, tool, and plan--that figure prominently in both professional and lay constructions of public orders. The third part presents two cases in which ambiguous moral claims for redemption and justice challenge the pluralism of the open myth. One concerns exclusionary zoning in New Jersey, the other the 1985 attack on the MOVE compound in West Philadelphia. Mandelbaum's blending of moral philosophy and concrete examples concludes with an account of citizenship in liberal republics.
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Some chapters previously published in various journals.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.

A Communitarian Sensibility -- Moral Orders and Communities -- Deserving Communities -- Three Communal Myths -- Community and Communication -- Public Orders -- Theory -- Stories -- Times -- Tools -- Cities -- Plans -- Moral Claims -- MOVE and the Poetics of Redemption -- Ethical Mandates and the Virtue of Prudence -- Liberal Republics and the Open Field.

Print version record.

Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. To do so, they must recruit, socialize, and discipline members; distinguish between members and strangers; collect resources; and cultivate a domain of competence. The communitarian sensibility is a disposition to assess the impact of innovative opportunities and compelling moral claims on the design, repair, and dissolution of communities and communal fields with a healthy skepticism about unlikely strategies. The book is divided into three parts. The first part sets out the role of communities in the creation of moral orders and discusses the implications of three prevalent myths about community. The second part discusses six terms--theory, story, time, city, tool, and plan--that figure prominently in both professional and lay constructions of public orders. The third part presents two cases in which ambiguous moral claims for redemption and justice challenge the pluralism of the open myth. One concerns exclusionary zoning in New Jersey, the other the 1985 attack on the MOVE compound in West Philadelphia. Mandelbaum's blending of moral philosophy and concrete examples concludes with an account of citizenship in liberal republics.

English.

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