What Might Make Life Better?

What Might Make Life Better? (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt: Leipzig, 2024) (with Michael Welker) (German translation, 2024)
Description

This volume analyzes the powerful normative codes that, for better or worse, shape moral character and ethical education in European countries, in the US, Australia, South Africa, and other late modern liberal societies. Drawing on a major interdisciplinary and international study, this volume analyses the shifting places and roles of these normative codes both in the traditional social spheres of family, religion, law, politics, and markets as well as in the new social spheres of education, academic research, health care, the media, and the military. All of these social systems, we argue, are essential for building a good life and a good society today, but none should dominate the others. And all of these social systems with their competences must work separately and together to foster justice, freedom, benevolence, and peace at home and abroad.
Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Marital Family
Chapter 2 - Religion and the Church
Chapter 3 - Politics and the State
Chapter 4 - Law and Justice
Chapter 5 - Health Care
Chapter 6 - Academic Research
Chapter 7 - Education and Schools
Chapter 8 - Market and Economics
Chapter 9 - Media and Communication
Chapter 10 - The Military

Conclusions: Enduring Themes, New Challenges
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German Translation 2024