A Philosopher Sets Out a Specifically American Set of Ethics

Albert Borgmann, professor of philosophy at the University of Montana at Missoula

For all its broad freedoms and great prosperity, the United States badly underperforms when it comes to such responsibilities as caring for others, preserving resources, and fighting just wars, argues Mr. Borgmann in Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country (University of Chicago Press).

Q. Why have you focused on setting out a specifically

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