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Democracy and Social Ethics: A Progressive Era Classic on Democracy, Social Responsibility, and Moral Reform
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PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Psychology
ISBN13: 9781617206061
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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Jane Addams argues that democracy is not only a political system but a daily moral obligation shaped by work, poverty, family, education, immigration, class, and social responsibility. In Democracy and Social Ethics, she brings the experience of settlement-house reform into a broader ethical vision, insisting that modern life requires people to move beyond private virtue toward shared responsibility for the conditions under which others live.
Drawing from the world of Hull House, labor struggles, domestic service, charity, industrial life, and the lives of immigrants and working-class families, Addams examines the gap between older individual morality and the social realities of the modern city. She shows how good intentions can fail when they do not account for inequality, dependence, exploitation, and the actual circumstances of people's lives. Her ethics are practical, democratic, and deeply rooted in contact with ordinary human need.
First published in 1902, Democracy and Social Ethics remains an important work of American social thought, Progressive Era reform, feminist intellectual history, social work, sociology, and democratic theory. It is especially valuable for readers interested in how moral life changes when society becomes more interconnected and when justice must be understood not as charity from above, but as participation, respect, and social obligation.
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