![]() Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda A wake up call to political pundits on both the left and the right, this work redefines how Americans think and talk about politics. Arguing that conservatives have exploited the connection between morality, the family, and politics, while liberals have failed to recognized it, Lakoff explains why conservative moral position has not been effectively challenged. Revealing how family-based moral values determine views on diverse issues as crime, gun control, taxation, social programs, and the environment, George Lakoff looks at how conservatives and liberals link morality to politics through the concept of family and how these ideals diverge. George Lakoff analyzed recent political discussion to find that the family-especially the ideal family-is the most powerful metaphor in politics today. Moral Politics takes a fresh look at how we think and talk about political and moral ideas. Library of Congress HN90.M6元5 1996 | Dewey Decimal 172 Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't Wataru Kusaka looks at the dangers of this moralization of politics during the last several decades, and he analyzes the damaging effects it has had on democracy by excluding much of society and marginalizing the interests of those most in need of resources. Conversely, the poor believe themselves to be morally upright and criticize the rich as arrogant oppressors. The educated middle class began to recognize themselves as moral citizens and political participants while condemning the poor as immoral “masses” who earn money illegally and support corrupt leaders. After the ousting of Ferdinando Marcos in 1986, society in the Philippines fractured along socioeconomic lines. Moral Politics in the Philippines offers an in-depth examination of the political participation and discourse of the urban poor in Manila. ![]() National University of Singapore Press, 2017 Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor ![]() Moral Politics offers a much-needed wake-up call to both the left and the right. To have any hope of bringing mutual respect to the current social and political divide, we need to clearly understand the problem and make it part of our contemporary public discourse. ![]() One might have hoped such massive changes would bring people together, but the reverse has actually happened the divide between liberals and conservatives has become stronger and more virulent. For this new edition, Lakoff has added a new preface and afterword, extending his observations to major ideological conflicts since the book's original publication, from the Affordable Care Act to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent financial crisis, and the effects of global warming. When confronted with facts that don’t fit our moral worldview, our brains work automatically and unconsciously to ignore or reject these facts, and it takes extraordinary openness and awareness of this phenomenon to pay critical attention to the vast number of facts we are presented with each day. Moral worldviews, like most deep ways of understanding the world, are unconscious-part of our “hard-wired” brain circuitry. Lakoff reveals radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right. Even more so than when Lakoff wrote, liberals and conservatives simply have very different, deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong. Today, George Lakoff’s classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality. When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology.
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