CHAPTER 7 ORGANIC SOCIAL ETHICS Universalism Without Egalitarianism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I DIAGNOSING MODERNITY
7. CHAPTER 1 THE MODERN PROJECT IN THE LIGHT OF HUMAN EVOLUTION 21
8. CHAPTER 2 TURNING OFF NATURE’S THERMOSTATS Technology, Ecology, and Deep History 37
9. CHAPTER 3 THERMOSTATLESSNESS: THE PROJECT OF MODERNITY AND THE PROCESS OF MODERNIZATION Reflections on Robert Bellah’s Account of the Late Modern Predicament 57
10. PART II THE MODERN PROJECT
11. CHAPTER 4 PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN (OR HELL) TO THE MODERN PROJECT 91
12. CHAPTER 5 CULTURE AND HOPE Reflections on Bellah’s Unfinished Project 159
13. CHAPTER 6 AXIALITY AND THE CRITIQUE OF POWER 182
14. CHAPTER 7 ORGANIC SOCIAL ETHICS Universalism Without Egalitarianism 225
15. PART III THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNITY
16. CHAPTER 8 THE TILLICH LECTURE Paul Tillich and the Challenge of Modernity 265
17. CHAPTER 9 ON THE SEARCH FOR “A SERIOUS ETHICAL FORM OF INDIVIDUALISM” Bellah, Tillich, and the Anthropology of Christian Individualism 282
18. CHAPTER 10 “DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WORLD” OR FRAGMENTATION OF THE SACRED? 303
19. CONCLUSION 325
20. CONTRIBUTORS 341
21. INDEX 345