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Basic Values of Western Civilization (Hardcover, New edition)
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The explicit stating of the values that all Western Civilization
holds in common is certainly an important and worthwhile goal.
However there may be more to be said on the subject than Mr. Clough
has time for in this exceedingly brief book. He defines culture as
"a way of life shared by members of a human society or group of
societies" and then hypothesizes that human beings and their values
are largely a product of cultures. He finds that the basic values
of our culture (which excludes Russia and the Orient) are the
"worth and welfare" of the individual, scientific and technological
control over the environment, Christian ethics- especially the
Golden Rule, aesthetic works, and progress. Lest this seems like an
oversimplification, Mr. Clough differentiates between ideal values,
never completely realized, and modal values which can be obtained.
He also discusses instrumental values, or institutions set up to
achieve basic values, and has some bitter words to say about the
nation- state which he considers an instrumental value that did not
achieve the goals for which it was supposedly instrumental...The
purpose of this book is to define these goals so that we can go on
and contribute toward them. However, since Clough is committed to a
social science framework, he cannot make a clear distinction
between those values which the culture has and those he thinks it
should have, with the result that the reader with his own values
may find the book less useful than the subject warrants. (Kirkus
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