Article: Public Morality and Liberal Society.

Dennis G. Stevens, Augustana College

In opposition to dominant trends in scholarship and changing popular attitudes, Harry Clot presents a careful, reasoned argument on behalf of what he calls "an ethic of decency" (p. 14). This ethic, he suggests, is essential to the health and survival of liberal democracy in ways that are rarely recognized today. He writes for both the educated citizen and the professional scholar, with the earlier chapters addressing broad subjects in nontechnical language and the later chapters focusing on more abstract, scholarly controversies. The argument of the book is characterized by the same moderation that Clot hopes will reemerge in ...

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