Thomas E. McCollough explores the relationship of personal values to public policy, and he poses the concept of moral community as the vital link between the concerned citizen and the body politic. He delineates a collective vision of the public good that might be brought to bear on policy issues such as health care, education, civil liberties, and the environment.

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Acknowledgments
Preface

1. Public Policy and the Ethical Question
Public Policy and Political Life
Limitations of This Approach
The Problem Stated
The Quest for a Public Ethic
Ethics as the Critical Analysis of Morality
The Ethical Self
Posing the Ethical Question
Public Ethics
The Moral Imagination
Value and Community
Moral Community and Pluralistic Society
Knowledge and Responsibility
Earth Day
Symbol and Reality

2. Community, Society, and Ethics
Medieval Community and the Rise of Modernity
The Science to Come
The Economic Revolution
Morality and the Marketplace
Modern Society and Social Theory
The Loss of Community in Utilitarianism
The Problem of Order in Utilitarianism
The Pioneers of Sociology
Community as a Form of Social Thought
Communal Society?
The Ethical Dialectic of Community and Society
The Search for a Social Ethic
Justice
The Common Good

4. The Public Realm
The Idea of the Public
From Revolution to Constitution
The Fathers of Liberal Theory
The Pluralist Concept of Politics
The Ethical Limitations of Pluralism
The Problematic Notion of Community
Individualism as a Form of Social Thought
Individualism in America
The Debate over Community
Lifeworld and System World
Public Discourse and Public Philosophy
Public Ethics as the Creation of the Public
The Perversion of Public Speech
Public Speech versus Bureaucratic Language
Standing by Our Words
Lifeworld and Public Policy
The Public Interest and the Public
Conclusion

4. Choosing Who We Are
Core Values in the American Liberal Tradition
Religion and Property
The American Indian
Liberty and Equality
Liberty, Equality, and Slavery
Conflict of Values
Root Metaphors of the Self: Atomistic Individualism
The Metaphor as Model
The Self as Person-in Community
Interests and Values
Collectivity of Individuals or Commonwealth?
Who Are We?
Religion and Property: A Vision of Economic Justice
Libery and Equality: A City Chooses What It Will Be
Conclusion

5. Starting from Here
The Information Society
The Television Culture
The Citizen as Spectator
The Citizen as Consumer
Who Am I?
Recovering the Self
What Is My Personal Relation to What I Don't Know?
The Aim of Policy: A Flourishing Life
An Emerging Perspective on Public Policy
The Community Approach to Public Policy
The Religious Factor
Churches as Public Interest Groups
Getting Involved
Moral Imagination and Hope

Notes
Index