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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"good society"”.
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Social and Emotional Learning: An Argument for Religious Pluralism
… achieve their intended outcomes for students and society, religious pluralism must be reflected in student instruction. SEL involves the use of evidence-based practices to provide opportunities to develop competencies related to self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship …
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Crisis and progress: The rhetoric and ideals of a nineteenth century reformer, George William Curtis (1824-1892)
… debate over government's role in fostering the ""good society"" in America. These reformers disdained theory, particularly that of laissez-faire and limited government, in favor of pragmatism and utilitarianism."
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Learning Performances of Dislocation, Receptivity and Hybridity in Women's Utopian Writing
… fails to see how Western questions about the good life, the good society, and good education have been founded on the colonial supplement of an imaginary, natural and amorphous, place available for 'cultivation' and 'acculturation' outside the 'home', as well as on the imaginary of an …
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A comparison of secret police systems in Peronist Argentina and Stalinist Russia.
… have long been considered as virtues of the good society. In the democratic society, that order and stability is achieved through the voluntary consent of the governed to submit to the legislative decrees of the governing. In the totalitarian dictatorship, that order and stability is …
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Liberty for Individuality
… social vision (a new constitutional order or a "good society.") Assuming such a transformation is appealing to its members, how might a new vision look? This thesis offers one possible vision, and it does so by criticizes existing libertarian visions for their narrow focus on economics and law. …
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
… the Progressive-era antagonisms toward civil society. In their constructivist approach to society, Progressives believed that "they could reshape character by reshaping the environment," writes historian Michael McGerr (81). They favored national, disinterested, and enlightened solutions to …
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Perfectionist Republicanism: Liberty, Flourishing, Excellence
… of the point and purpose of republican political society, while also preserving the humane institutions of modern politics. It pursues this by orienting republicanism around three central normative ideals: (i) protecting equal liberty; (ii) realising the flourishing of every citizen; and (iii) the …
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THE ANXIOUS ATLANTIC: WAR, MURDER, AND A “MONSTER OF A MAN” IN REVOLUTIONARY NEW ENGLAND
… had been a respected merchant in Wethersfield good society. Newspapers, pamphlets, and sermons carried the story up and down the coast. Writers quoted from a packet of letters Beadle left at the scene. Those letters disclosed Beadle’s secret allegiance to deism and the fact that the War for …
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The Ends of Utopian Thinking: Marx, Adorno, Bloch
… (prohibition of envisaging a utopian society). I argue that this Utopieverbot facilitated the disappearance of utopian thinking in Critical Theory, and furthermore, that it brought this system of thought to a standstill. In addition to the dissolution of utopian thinking my …
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The Impact of Family, Community, and Resilience on African-American Young Adults Who Had Parents Incarcerated During Childhood
… were also crucial in their development as good society members.</p>
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The dialectical tradition in South Africa
… modem liberal, sense as a precondition for a good society, rather than an individual right. The study traces this current from its sources in the uneven development of Western political thought in the 18th and 19th centuries, and through its development in South Africa from the mid-19th …
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Institutional Transformation: A Case Study of an Urban Midwestern University
… university's ability to contribute to the public good. There is an understanding in the community and at the university that their two fates are linked.The aggregate of faculty and student participants do not report a deep, pervasive impact on their culture and experiences. The Milwaukee Idea …