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050 00 $aHM216$b.C59 1996
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100 1 $aClor, Harry M.,$d1929-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50031811
245 10 $aPublic morality and liberal society :$bessays on decency, law, and pornography /$cHarry Clor.
260 $aNotre Dame :$bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
263 $a9604
300 $ax, 235 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Problem of Public Morality --$g2.$tThe Case for Public Morality --$g3.$tReflections on the Offensive, the Harmful, and the Good --$g4.$tChoice, Equality, Dignity: Contemporary Liberal Perspectives --$g5.$tPornography: Feminism, Sexuality, and Freedom of Expression.
520 $aThe issue of public morality, so often at the center of heated debates about pornography, narcotics, public indecency, violent entertainments, "family values," et cetera, is at once a continuing reality and a persistent dilemma in our liberal society. With Public Morality and Liberal Society, Harry M. Clor makes an important contribution to this perennial and intensely debated theme by considering how public morality can be justified in theory and accommodated in practice within a liberal society.
520 8 $aClor's argument departs from the usual discussions of public morality - which spring from the premises of liberal philosophy and are oriented to an overriding concern with personal liberty or rights - and considers instead the moral interests and claims of the community as a whole.
520 8 $aHe maintains that a reasonable case can still be made for a publicly supported ethnic of self-restraint, and that this enterprise involves the definition of public morality, the articulation of its philosophic justification, and a consideration of its problems and prospects in the face of the community-weakening tendencies of liberal modernity.
520 8 $aBy systematically analyzing society's need for public morality and by confronting the major libertarian and egalitarian objections to it, Clor clearly shows that what is at stake in the debates about public decency and liberal society is nothing less than our communal self-understanding, our sense of what a liberal community is about, and our understanding of human well-being.
650 0 $aMoral conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087198
650 0 $aSocial norms.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123980
650 0 $aCrimes without victims.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034030
650 0 $aCivil rights.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026371
650 0 $aLaw and ethics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075294
852 00 $bleh$hHM216$i.C59 1996