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Introduction
The Thesis
An Illustration: The 2012 Election
Plan of the Book
The Boundaries and Limits of the Thesis
Part I: Origins of the New Morality
Chapter 1: The Morality of Honor
The Privatization of Government in the Roman Empire The Privatization of Governance in Early Medieval Europe The Morality of Honor and the Man of Honor
The Man of Honor in Action The Morality of Honor and Other Members of Society
The Co-Causal Connection
Chapter 2: The Morality of Higher Purposes
The Publification of Governance
The Monarchy as a Higher Purpose of Its People and Government
The Spiritualization of Christianity
The Morality of Higher Purposes
Sexual Love as a Higher Purpose
The Co-Causal Connection
Chapter 3: The Morality of Self-Fulfillment
The Idea of the Administrative State
The Advent of the Administrative State
Self-Fulfillment Morality: The Process of Secularization
Self-Fulfillment Morality: The Concept of Mental Health
The Co-Causal Connection
Resistance to the New Morality
Part II: The Nature of the New Morality
Chapter 4: The Morality of the Self
The Basic Principle: The Self as a Life-Path
The Basic Principle: Fulfillment as Pleasure, Planning and Reflection
Secondary Principles: Non-Interference, Incommensurability and Equality
Components of the Life Path: Careers
Components of the Life-Path: Family, Religion and Leisure
The End of the Life-Path
Chapter 5: The Morality of Intimate and Personal Relations
The Validation of Sex
The Reformulation of Childhood Sex
The Deregulation of Sex
The Domestication of Love
The Personalization of Parenthood
The Personalization of Friendship and the Officialization of Work
Chapter 6: The Morality of Relations with Society
The Self's Relation to the Nation-State
The Morality of Self-National Relations
The Non-Interference Principle and Negative Rights
The Equality Principle and Positive Rights
Moral Action Beyond Voting: Reiteration and Emergent Consequences
The New Morality and Environmentalism
Conclusion: The Future of Christianity
Christianity and Western History (Chapters 1, 2 and 3)
Christianity and the New Morality of the Self (Chapter 4)
Christianity and the New Morality of Personal Relations (Chapter 5)
Christianity and the New Morality of Relations with Society (Chapter 6)
A Final Word.
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Soul, self, and society : the new morality and the modern state by Edward L. Rubin. ISBN 9780199348657. Published by Oxford University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
