Decent People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780742507098)

In Decent People, Norman Care explores how we may understand and be reconciled to the fragility of our moral nature. In his highly original vision of what it means to be a decent person, Care claims that our moral-emotional nature pressures us to seek relief from moralized pain - pain that comes from our awareness of our own wrongdoing, the suffering of current or future people, and our experience of indifference to moral imperatives. Care argues that decent people are neither 'pure' nor self-righteous and that they are vulnerable to the need for forgiveness. Decent people may take morality seriously, but they are not guaranteed success at its challenges.

Author: Norman S. Care
ISBN-10: 0742507092
ISBN-13: 9780742507098
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2000
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 8