Albert Borgmann’s Real American Ethics is a work of public philosophy aimed at the general reader. Borgmann is a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana. He wants to shine a light on existing American habits and values and then suggest a reasonable course of personal and civic self-improvement. We desperately need a renewed ethics of citizenship in America (...)
January 12, 2007
Books
Not Real Enough
Real American EthicsTaking Responsibility for Our CountryAlbert BorgmannUniversity of Chicago Press, $25, 232 pp.
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