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Book (821023) Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World
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| Author: |
Long, D. Stephen |
| Publisher: |
Gen. Brd. of Higher Ed. & Min., UMC, 2019 |
| Vendor: |
Cokesbury |
| Length: |
176 Pages |
| Heading: |
SOCIA — Social Issues
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| Subjects: |
Government/Politics; Leadership - General; Relationships - Interpersonal Relationship; Social Action/Concerns |
| Location: |
Social Issues |
| # Copies: |
1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: |
9781945935503
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| Description: |
The choice is clear: truth, justice, freedom or lies, injustice, bondage? The good life and a just society depend on truth telling, but perhaps we are more comfortable with lies and fake news? How can we recognize the truth when everyone does "what is right in their own eyes"? When we accept and expect lies, how is civil society possible? How can we decide what is true, good, and right? If everyone has their own moral compass, is there any compass at all? This book addresses the skepticism about our capacity to know anything for sure and the inevitable consequences of moral relativism. Author D. Stephen Long says that skepticism and relativism cannot provide effective barriers against the drift by democracies into authoritarianism--characterized by the heavy use of state power to impose the culture of one kind of Me on us all. In the past, religion provided a beacon of hope and as the bedrock for our society and its laws. Now, religion is confined to the private and often silent recesses of the person. How then can we speak of God, truth, power, and justice as a society? These are some of the questions that the book takes up. He begins by saying that truth and freedom promote human flourishing and concludes by pointing us to how we can discern and practice truth telling as private citizens and as people of faith. Chapters: Why should truth matter?; Will power free you?; Goodness and a post-truth politics; The virtue of truth telling and the ecclesial approach. Includes index. |
| Age Groups: |
Young Adult; Adult (30-55); Adult (55+)
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