Explores the moral debates that shape U.S. culture.
"We are arguing both that moral confusion is valuable and that
more negotiation of morality is desirable and possible. This
approach does not require a new universal moral order.... To be a
nation that engages productively with moral issues, there is no
need to have a single, simple set of morals. Morality can live side
by side complexity".
A woman becomes pregnant through in vitro fertilization by her
son-in-law so her infertile daughter will have a child to raise. Is
this arrangement the epitome of mother love, a perversion of family
structure, or a rational solution to a medical dilemma? At the end
of the twentieth century, this kind of ethical uncertainty is found
everywhere. Morality USA charts our confusion, untangling
conflicting traditions and exploring our culture's moral
ambiguity.
Ellen G. Friedman and Corinne Squire look at a diverse range of
subjects -- the law and issues of "justice", O. J. Simpson, family
relationships, political correctness, "lite" culture, New Age
spirituality, Dr. Jack Kervorkian, Tawana Brawley, TV talk shows,
the Million Man March, and Promise Keepers. Morality USA traces our
ethical confusion to rapid social change and events that have acted
as moral breaks with the past. The Holocaust, the Kennedy and King
assassinations, the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 60s,
feminist and gay rights campaigns, Watergate, and the Hill-Thomas
hearings have progressively eroded confidence in moral universals.
Stripped of grand moral narratives, people are left with mere
cost-benefit analyses of their ethical options or with only a
personal sense of right and wrong, a privatized moralorder.
Morality USA asserts that moral diversity cannot, and should
not, be suppressed. It calls for recognition of the multiplicity of
moral structures that exist in the United States and argues that we
need to think about morality as local, contingent, and revisable, a
product of argument and compromise, not as a self-evident truth or
the self-interest of the powerful.
Controversial, comprehensive, engaging, and timely, Morality USA
defines the moral zeitgeist in ways that will spark debate and
contemplation across the political and social spectrum.
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