Introduction
The Thesis
An Illustration: The 2012 Election
Plan of the Book
The Boundaries and Limits of the Thesis
Part I: Origins of the New Morality
Chapter 1: The Morality of Honor
The Privatization of Government in the Roman Empire The
Privatization of Governance in Early Medieval Europe The Morality
of Honor and the Man of Honor
The Man of Honor in Action The Morality of Honor and Other Members
of Society
The Co-Causal Connection
Chapter 2: The Morality of Higher Purposes
The Publification of Governance
The Monarchy as a Higher Purpose of Its People and Government
The Spiritualization of Christianity
The Morality of Higher Purposes
Sexual Love as a Higher Purpose
The Co-Causal Connection
Chapter 3: The Morality of Self-Fulfillment
The Idea of the Administrative State
The Advent of the Administrative State
Self-Fulfillment Morality: The Process of Secularization
Self-Fulfillment Morality: The Concept of Mental Health
The Co-Causal Connection
Resistance to the New Morality
Part II: The Nature of the New Morality
Chapter 4: The Morality of the Self
The Basic Principle: The Self as a Life-Path
The Basic Principle: Fulfillment as Pleasure, Planning and
Reflection
Secondary Principles: Non-Interference, Incommensurability and
Equality
Components of the Life Path: Careers
Components of the Life-Path: Family, Religion and Leisure
The End of the Life-Path
Chapter 5: The Morality of Intimate and Personal Relations
The Validation of Sex
The Reformulation of Childhood Sex
The Deregulation of Sex
The Domestication of Love
The Personalization of Parenthood
The Personalization of Friendship and the Officialization of
Work
Chapter 6: The Morality of Relations with Society
The Self's Relation to the Nation-State
The Morality of Self-National Relations
The Non-Interference Principle and Negative Rights
The Equality Principle and Positive Rights
Moral Action Beyond Voting: Reiteration and Emergent
Consequences
The New Morality and Environmentalism
Conclusion: The Future of Christianity
Christianity and Western History (Chapters 1, 2 and 3)
Christianity and the New Morality of the Self (Chapter 4)
Christianity and the New Morality of Personal Relations (Chapter
5)
Christianity and the New Morality of Relations with Society
(Chapter 6)
A Final Word
Edward L. Rubin is Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University. He is the former Dean of the Vanderbilt Law School and the author of many books including Beyond Camelot (Princeton University Press)
"A brilliant book that is stunning in its originality. Rubin
powerfully describes a shift in this country from a moral system of
'higher purposes' to an emerging one of 'self-fulfillment.' He
links this to a major change in how government operates in the
United States and to almost every major social issue. This is a
tremendously important work about the nature of American government
and American society." -- Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University
of
California-Irvine School of Law
"Edward Rubin is a jewel in the legal academy. In Soul, Self, and
Society, he uses his formidable intellect, immense scholarly
knowledge, and deep imagination to explore profound
interrelationships between morality and political structure." --
Robert C. Post, Dean, Yale Law School
"A new morality is steadily taking possession of the world of what
Edward L. Rubin calls High Modernity. It is a refined from of
utilitarianism, whose ultimate goal is the self-fulfillment of the
greater number. Slowly, but assuredly, it is replacing an ancient
and embattled rival based upon enforced and often unexamined norms.
Soul, Self, and Society is the story, ranging from the sixth to the
twenty-first centuries, of how this way of being came into
existence as a consequence of the increasing privatization of
modern systems of governance, and why we should embrace it. It is
powerful, utterly persuasive, and ultimately uplifting."-Anthony
Pagden,
author of The Enlightenment - and Why It Still Matters
"In this bold companion to his 2005 book, Beyond Camelot, Rubin
offers the reader an equally provocative and insightful account of
how the evolution of the modern administrative state has also
transformed our system of morality. Highly recommended!" -- Martha
Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor, Emory University
School of Law
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