Civility - Leroy S. Rouner

In This Lively Conversation On An Increasingly Significant Theme, Major Philosophers And Religious Scholars Argue The Issue On Three Levels. The First Is Manners: Henry Rosemont Argues The Confucian Case That Manners Are The Substance Of Social Relations, While Edwin Delattre And Adam Seligman Believe That The Issue Is Deeper Than That; And The Sociologist Alan Wolfe Is Persuaded That We Are Not Less Civil Or Ill-mannered Than Our Predecessors. Secondly, As A Social Issue, James Schmidt, Lawrence Cahoone, And Adam Seligman Turn To Questions Of Structure And Meaning In A Civil Society; Ninian Smart, David Wong, And Virginia Straus Put The Issue In A Cross-cultural Context; Stephen Toulmin Describes The Corruption Of Civility By Dogmatism; And Carrie Doehring Warns That Civility May Be A Barrier To Honest Communication In Family Life.