Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Civility / edited by Leroy S. Rouner. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2000. - xvii, 252 pages ; 24 cm. - Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ; v. 21 .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: what is Civility
• Is civility a virtue, James Schmidt
• Civic meetings, cultural meanings, Lawrence Cahoone
• Trust, confidence, and the problem of civility, Adam McClellan
• The Belligerence of Dogma, Stephen Toulmin
Part II: The civility Debate
• The Ethical status of civility, Robert B. Pippin
• Response to Robert B. Pippin, Daniel O. Dahlstrom
• Are we losing our virtue?, Alan Wolfe
• Response to Alan Wolfe, Lawrence Cahoone
• Civility and the Limits to the Tolerable, Edwin J. Delattre
• Civility in the family, Carrie Doehring
Part III: Civility in various Cultures
• On Confucian civility, Henry Rosemont, Jr
• Harmony, fragmentation, and democratic ritual, David B. Wong
• Sacred civilities, Ninian Smart
• Making peace, Virginia Straus


ISBN: 0268022550 (alk. paper) 0268022569 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 99059811

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Civil society.
Courtesy.

LC Class. No.: JC337 / .C58 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 177.1 / CIV