A preface to morals
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1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface to Morals endorses liberal democracy. Partial Part I The Dissolution of the Ancestral Order; Part II The Foundations of Humanism; and Part III The Genius of Modernity.
Chapters (440)
- A PREFACE TO MORALS
- CONTENTS
- PART I THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ANCESTRAL ORDER
- CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF UNBELIEF
- 1. Whirl is King
- 2. False Prophecies
- 3. Sorties and Retreats
- 4. Deep Dissolution
- CHAPTER II GOD IN THE MODERN WORLD
- 1. Imago Dei
- 2. An Indefinite God
- 3. God in More Senses Than One
- 4. The Protest of the Fundamentalists
- 5. In Man’s Image
- CHAPTER III THE LOSS OF CERTAINTY
- 1. Ways of Reading the Bible
- 2. Modernism: Immortality as an Example
- 3. What Modernism Leaves Out
- CHAPTER IV THE ACIDS OF MODERNITY
- 1. The Kingly Pattern
- 2. Landmarks
- 3. Barren Ground
- 4. Sophisticated Violence
- 5. Rulers
- CHAPTER V THE BREAKDOWN OF AUTHORITY
- 1. God’s Government
- 2. The Doctrine of the Keys
- 3. The Logic of Toleration
- 4. A Working Compromise
- 5. The Effect of Patriotism
- 6. The Dissolution of a Sovereignty
- CHAPTER VI LOST PROVINCES
- 1. Business
- 2. The Family
- 3. Art
- CHAPTER VII THE DRAMA OF DESTINY
- 1. The Soul in the Modern World
- 2. The Great Scenario
- 3. Earmarks of Truth
- 4. On Reconciling Religion and Science
- 5. Gospels of Science
- 6. The Deeper Conflict
- 7. Theocracy and Humanism
- PART II THE FOUNDATIONS OF HUMANISM
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER VIII GOLDEN MEMORIES
- CHAPTER IX THE INSIGHT OF HUMANISM
- 1. The Two Approaches to Life
- 2. Freedom and Restraint
- 3. The Ascetic Principle
- 4. Oscillation between Two Principles
- 5. The Golden Mean and Its Difficulties
- 6. The Matrix of Humanism
- 7. The Career of the Soul
- 8. The Passage into Maturity
- 9. The Function of High Religion
- CHAPTER X HIGH RELIGION AND THE MODERN WORLD
- 1. Popular Religion and the Great Teachers
- 2. The Aristocratic Principle
- 3. The Peculiarity of the Modern Situation
- 4. The Stone Which the Builders Rejected
- PART III THE GENIUS OF MODERNITY
- CHAPTER XI THE CURE OF SOULS
- 1. The Problem of Evil
- 2. Superstition and Self-Consciousness
- 3. Virtue
- 4. From Clue to Practice
- CHAPTER XII THE BUSINESS OF THE GREAT SOCIETY
- 1. The Invention of Invention
- 2. The Creative Principle in Modernity
- 3. Naive Capitalism
- 4. The Credo of Old-Style Business
- 5. Old-Style Reform and Revolution
- 6. The Diffusion of the Acquisitive Instinct
- 7. Ideals
- CHAPTER XIII GOVERNMENT IN THE GREAT SOCIETY
- 1. Loyalty
- 2. The Evolution of Loyalty
- 3. Pluralism
- 4. Live and Let Live
- 5. Government in the People
- 6. Politicians and Statesmen
- CHAPTER XIV LOVE IN THE GREAT SOCIETY
- 1. The External Control of Sexual Conduct
- 2. Birth Control
- 3. The Logic of Birth Control
- 4. The Use of Convention
- 5. The New Hedonism
- 6. Marriage and Affinity
- 7. The Schooling of Desire
- CHAPTER XV THE MORALIST IN AN UNBELIEVING WORLD
- 1. The Declaration of Ideals
- 2. The Choice of a Way
- 3. The Religion of the Spirit
- APPENDIX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX
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