| On Cultivating Liberty: Reflections on Moral Ecology Contributor(s): Novak, Michael (Author), Anderson, Brian C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847694054 ISBN-13: 9780847694051 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: "On Cultivating Liberty" brings together Novak's essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of a free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American Founding, and includes a series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures ranging from Jacques Maritain to St. Thomas Aquinas. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 323.44 |
| LCCN: 98-45128 |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 4.81" W x 7.76" (0.95 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular |
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| Publisher Description: Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak, who has written on theology, philosophy, political economy, and business theory. This book brings together many of Novak's crucial essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of the free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American founding. A series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures such as Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Courtney Murray, along with an autobiographical essay by Novak and an introduction by Brian C. Anderson, complete On Cultivating Liberty, an indispensable book for anyone concerned about the future of the democratic project as we enter the third millennium. |