Freedom and Its Abuses. / Dinesh D'Souza.
by D'Souza, Dinesh; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 11Human Relations. Publisher: American Spectator, 2002ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 | Americans -- Attitudes | Capitalism | Christian ethics | Liberty | Moral conditions | Popular culture | Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects | Values | VirtueDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The most serious charge against America is not that is an oppressive society, or one that denies freedom and opportunity to minorities. It is the charge that America is an immoral society....This adds up to a powerful critique, which states that in America freedom has established itself as the highest value and has fatally undermined other cherished values." (AMERICAN SPECTATOR) The author argues that in America today, freedom has been pursued without regard to the ethics and morality of what that freedom is for, hence a decline in morality.
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Originally Published: Freedom and Its Abuses, May/June 2002; pp. 34-37.
"The most serious charge against America is not that is an oppressive society, or one that denies freedom and opportunity to minorities. It is the charge that America is an immoral society....This adds up to a powerful critique, which states that in America freedom has established itself as the highest value and has fatally undermined other cherished values." (AMERICAN SPECTATOR) The author argues that in America today, freedom has been pursued without regard to the ethics and morality of what that freedom is for, hence a decline in morality.
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