TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bakker,Wieger
AU  - Borgman,Erik
AU  - Brink,Gabriël van den
AU  - Dekker,Paul
AU  - Halman,Loek
AU  - Ingen,Erik van
AU  - Luijn,Heleen van
AU  - Maalsté,Nicole
AU  - Mare,Heidi de
AU  - Woets,Karen
AU  - van den Brink,Gabriël
TI  - Moral Sentiments in Modern Society: A New Answer to Classical Questions 
SN  - 9789089647757
AV  - BJ1012 .M6352213 2016
U1  - 170 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - Social ethics
KW  - Values
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Part 1 --; 1. Research questions and theoretical framework --; 2. An archaeology of altruistic behaviour --; Part 2 --; 3. The Netherlands as a liquid society --; 4. The hardening of the social climate --; Part 3 --; 5. The truly important things in life --; 6. Changes in norms and values --; Part 4 --; 7. The role of ideals in professional life --; 8. Moral imagination at work --; Part 5 --; 9 Signs of moral resilience --; 10. Europe and modern morality --; Part 6 --; 11. An outline of modern morality --; 12 Reinventing civil society --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Since the time of Adam Smith, scholars have tried to understand the role moral sentiments play in modern life, an issue that became especially urgent during and after the 2008 global financial crisis. Previous explanations have ranged from the idea that modern society is built on moral values to the notion that modernization results in moral decay. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume use the example of Dutch society and a wealth of empirical data to propose a novel theory about the ambivalent relation between contemporary life and human nature. In the process, the contributors argue for the need to reject simplistic explanations and reinvent civil society
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048525706?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048525706
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048525706/original
ER  -