A Preface to Morals
A Philosophy, Essays, Nonfiction book. I find Walter Lippman intriguing, insightful, and deeply disturbing. This is an...
1929. Lippman, a Pulitzer Prize winning political columnist, helped found the liberal New Republic magazine. His writings there influenced Woodrow Wilson, who selected Lippman to help formulate his famous Fourteen Points and develop the concept of the League of Nations. A Preface to Morals endorses liberal democracy. Partial Contents: Part I The Dissolution of the Ancestral Order; Part II The Foundations of Humanism; and Part III The Genius of Modernity.
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- ISBN: 9780766195585 / 766195589
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A Preface To Morals by Walter Lippmann (1929)The reader this book addresses is a skeptic of any theistic fundamentalist religion which prescribes morality. In Part I, Lippmann does comment occasionally on problems that a fundamentalist view of Christianity has for him, but primarily he tries to show the skeptic the moral consequences... I find Walter Lippman intriguing, insightful, and deeply disturbing. This is an interesting view of history after WWI and the effects of Modernism. I read this book right out of college at about 22/23 years old. I didn't understand all of it at the time, but it got me started down the path of radical atheism. It's a tough read, but I recommend it to those serious about moral atheism. It was written in the 30's, but is still startlingly relevant.
