Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American FamilyRowman & Littlefield, 1997 - 353 páginas In this pathbreaking study that has earned the praise of scholars, family advocates, and policymakers, Richard T. Gill does more than illuminate the multiple causes and devastating effects of America's diminishing spirit of optimism. In order to reverse this disturbing trend, Gill urges Americans to reject short-term solutions, expand their time horizons, and, above all, give increasing care and attention to their children. |
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... humanity's longing for more freedom , equality , jus- tice , brotherhood , and all the institutions and virtues that could one day produce a paradise not just in heaven but on this planet . The posterity guaranteed by the Idea of ...
... humanity's longing for more freedom , equality , jus- tice , brotherhood , and all the institutions and virtues that could one day produce a paradise not just in heaven but on this planet . The posterity guaranteed by the Idea of ...
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... human institution : the family . Hints of this breakdown can be found well back in our national history , although there were also strongly countervailing forces that , at times — for example , during the curious but highly fascinating ...
... human institution : the family . Hints of this breakdown can be found well back in our national history , although there were also strongly countervailing forces that , at times — for example , during the curious but highly fascinating ...
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... human life in our age . It carried with it the promise that , aside from occasional ups and downs , temporary defeats , and short - term set - backs , the long - run future facing the human race on this planet was on an ever - ascending ...
... human life in our age . It carried with it the promise that , aside from occasional ups and downs , temporary defeats , and short - term set - backs , the long - run future facing the human race on this planet was on an ever - ascending ...
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... human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this - worldly , rather than other - worldly , focus , and this focus is very much future- oriented in the sense that the great payoffs will come to us not directly but to our ...
... human race may come to occupy . It has , that is to say , a this - worldly , rather than other - worldly , focus , and this focus is very much future- oriented in the sense that the great payoffs will come to us not directly but to our ...
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... humanity continued to produce its quota of children and grandchildren and it was largely through the family that these inhabitants of the future were nourished and sustained . Since the Idea of Progress , as I shall refer to it , is ...
... humanity continued to produce its quota of children and grandchildren and it was largely through the family that these inhabitants of the future were nourished and sustained . Since the Idea of Progress , as I shall refer to it , is ...
Contenido
In Disarray The American Family Approaching Year 2000 | 13 |
The Future at Risk The Consequences of Family Breakdown | 33 |
Why Conventional Explanations Are Incomplete | 57 |
The Crucial Role of the Ideology of Progress | 83 |
How the Process Gave Rise and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 103 |
The First Great Predicament of Progress | 119 |
A Horrible Capacity for Mass Annihilation | 135 |
LimitstoGrowth Predicaments | 151 |
Family values Evolution or Revolution? | 219 |
A Major Battleground Self vs Posterity | 237 |
Equality Family Advantages and Moral Relativism | 257 |
Reclaiming the Family Principles and Programs | 275 |
We Can Act But Will We? | 297 |
Notes | 315 |
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About the Author | |
The Fundamental Predicament of Progress | 171 |
Decline and Fall of the Idea of Progress | 189 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Posterity Lost: Progress, Ideology, and the Decline of the American Family Richard Thomas Gill Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
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