Morality's Muddy Waters : : Ethical Quandaries in Modern America /

Morality's Muddy Waters : : Ethical Quandaries in Modern America / / George Cotkin.

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In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of right or wrong we often go astray.In Morality's Muddy Waters, historian George Cotkin offers a cl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Cotkin, George,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Problems of Evil
  • PART I. In Times of War
  • Chapter Two. A Sky That Never Cared Less
  • Chapter Three. The Moral Mystery of My Lai
  • PART II. In Times of Peace
  • Chapter Four. The Hate Stare: Empathy and Moral Luck
  • Chapter Five. Just Rewards? Capital Punishment
  • PART III. Present Problems
  • Chapter Six. Muddiness and Moral Clarity: The Iraqi Situation
  • Conclusion. Torture and the Tortured
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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