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Morality's Muddy Waters - Ethical Quandaries in Modern America (Paperback)
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Morality's Muddy Waters - Ethical Quandaries in Modern America (Paperback)
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In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn
for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as
history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of
right or wrong we often go astray. In Morality's Muddy Waters,
historian George Cotkin offers a clarion call on behalf of moral
complexity. Revisiting several defining moments in the twentieth
century-the American bombing of civilians during World War II, the
My Lai massacre, racism in the South, capital punishment, the
invasion of Iraq-Cotkin chronicles how historical figures have
grappled with the problem of evil and moral
responsibility-sometimes successfully, oftentimes not. In the
process, he offers a wide-ranging tour of modern American history.
Taken together, Cotkin maintains, these episodes reveal that the
central concepts of morality-evil, empathy, and virtue-are both
necessary and troubling. Without empathy, for example, we fail to
inhabit the world of others; with it, we sometimes elevate
individual suffering over political complexities. For Cotkin, close
historical analysis may help reenergize these concepts for ethical
thinking and acting. Morality's Muddy Waters argues for a moral
turn in the way we study and think about history, maintaining that
even when answers to ethical dilemmas prove elusive, the act of
grappling with them is invaluable.
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