Index

abortion 28,113, 131, 186 Bar Kochba rebellion 153,

Abraham 58,155,215
Abrahams, Israel: Hebrew Ethical Bell,Daniel 120
Wills 87-8
Acton, Lord 67-8
Adam 57-8,61,85, 86
adultery 194
Alsace: anti-Jewish riots 98
altruism 206-7, 228, 237
animal liberation campaign 28
anti-Semitism 98-101,175,
256,268
apocalyptic views 11,258-9,260
Aries,Philippe: Centuries of
Childhood 83
Aristotle 49, 56,176, 178, 205,
219-20,Nicomachean Ethics
207,222-3
Arnold, Matthew 25; Culture and Bible, the 30,57-8, 61-2,85,
Anarchy 56
associations,formation of 55-9,
106, 167-70,205-7
autonomy 33,36,39, 85, 86, 130, Blair, Tony xi-xii
144,145,177,234; Kantian
90,101,105, 121,142,176;
Sartrean 95-6
Axelrod,Robert xiv,206,
237
Ayer,A. J.: Language, Truth
and Logic 31, 95,96,
121, 180
157, 159
Bellah,Robert 49; Habits of the
Heart 2-3,231,258
Benedict,Ruth: Patterns of
Culture 116
Bennett, William J. 11n, 178;
The Book of Virtues 178-9; The
De-valuing of America 178; Index
of Leading Cultural Indicators 7n
Bentham,Jeremy 91-2, 100,101
Berger, Peter 84; (and H. Kellner)
Sociology Reinterpreted 159
Berlin, Isaiah 35,47, 121;
Four Essays on Liberty 'Two
Concepts of Liberty' 33--4,
113,243--4
86,150,151, 155,156,215,
258,259-60
Bickerton, Derek 220
Bloom, Allan: The Closing of the
American Mind 34,183
Bloom, Harold: A Map of
Misreading 254-5
Bodin, Jean: The Six Books of a
Commonwealth 55
Bradley, F. H. 223
brain size 238-9

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Brien, Alan 30
British Medical Association:
'survival handbook' 125
Buber,Martin 99
Bulger.James 7,25
Burke,Edmund 49,183,
223,239; Reflections on the
Revolution in France 80, 103,
114, 116, 140,182-3,191,
204,225-6
Calvinism 83
capitalism 41,83,104, 117,124,
127-8,235,240, 241,242
Cardozo,Justice 120
Carey,Dr George, Archbishop
of Canterbury 19-22,23,
211,212
Catholicism: and emancipation
72-3,140; and individualism
83
CBS 9
Chalmers,Thomas 119; Christian
and Civic Economy of LArge
Toums 252
character, hwnan: and
social change 78-90;
133;Victorian focus on
249-55,256-7
charity/charities 118-20;
Victorian 74-5,119,
245,251-2
Chesterton, G. K. 183,256
children 10-11; and crime
17-18,22,186;education
of 15,18-19,20,37;and
family breakdown 2,10, 127,
185-97; illegitimate 10, 125,
126-7,186; and nationalisation
of responsibility 132-4; in
286
Victorian era 248-9; see also
education;schools
Chornsky,Noam 218
church, the 8, 20;and the state
68-70,73,76, 136-7; see also
religion
Churchill, Sir Winston 30
civil society xiv
Clermont-Tonnerre, Count
of98-9
Clinton, Bill xi-xii,128
Cobain,Kurt 11
Coleman,James xiii-xiv
Coleridge,·Samuel Taylor 25,247
collectivism 4,47,48
Colquhoun,Patrick 247
communism 123-4, 235;see also
Marx, Karl
communitarianism xiv,
48-9, 62-3, 170-2, 190-1,
193,229-32
communities: disintegration of xv,
234;importance of xiv, xv, 15,
136, 224-5, 245-6, 268; see also
communitarianism
congregations xiv
conscience 37, 66, 70-2
consumer ethic 24o-41
covenantal bond xvi-xvii
covenantal relationships xiv
covenants 12, 61-4, 206,266;of
Judaism 100, 101
crime xii, 2, 9, 12, 13, 17-18, 22,
48, 124-5, 126, 186, 246-7,
248,253,264
Darwin, Charles 92, 206,237;
The Descent of Man 237n
Defoe, Daniel 246
democracy 37,41,47, 60,166-7
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demoralisation 14, 26
Denney, Reuel see Riesman,
David
Dennis, Nonnan 49, 190; (and
A. H. Halsey) English Ethical
Socialism 226
depressive illness 48,125-6,133,
186,188
Descartes,Rene 82,180
Devlin, Lord Patrick: The
Enforcement of Morals 1,
75-6,158
Diana,Princess 12
Dickens,Charles 25, 185-7,189,
191; Bleak House 107; Oliver
256; Our Mutual Friend 256
Dio 153, 159
Disraeli, Benjamin 255; Sybil
245-6,247,249
divorce 10, 12,110,125,
187-8,192; see also families,
breakdown of
Donne,John 196
Draper,John William: History of
the American Civil War 82
Dunblane primary school
massacre 12
Durkheim,Emile: The Division of
Labour in Society 161
duties: ofcitizens 62,63; and
rights 130, 131,241
Dworkin,Ronald 29; Law's
Empire 205; Life's Dilemma 200
ecological perspectives 224-5,
economic growth 235
education xii,206; and Judaism
155--8,160; and morality
175-84; see also schools
egalitarianism 202-3, 205
287
Eichmann, Adolf 107
Elazar,Daniel: People and
Polity 63
Eleazar 87-9,96
Eliezer, Rabbi 150-2,157
Eliot, George: Daniel Deronda
255-6
Eliot, T. S. 25, 183, 256
emancipation 72-3, 76,140
emotivism 31-3, 121
employment xii, 13
emunah 63
Engels, Friedrich 104; The Origin
of the Family 93
Enlightenment, the 13, 32,
99-108,142,144,146,
170,179-80,217-18,219,
229,262-3
Essenes 154,156, 157, 159,160
Etzioni,Amitai 49,171; The Spirit
of Community 171
Eurobarometer survey (1990) 131
euthanasia 131
existentialism 95-6, 215
faith xv
families: breakdown of xii, xv
2, 10, 18,22,48, 125-7,
234; importance ofxiv,xv,
37,44-5,101-2,130-1,
136,168,191-2,263-4;and
morality 101-4, 120,121,
185-97, 212-13; strengthening
of192-7,224,248,249,
252,264-5
Ferguson,Adam x, 91,137
Field, Frank 126,254
Fielding,Henry 246-7
'final solution' 33,34
Fitzgerald,F. Scott 256
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forgiveness 238, 239
Foucault,Michel: The Order of
Things 244
Franklin,Benjamin 253
fraternity 62, 114, 137,
202,205-7
freedom see liberty
French Revolution 49, 80-1,82,
98,123,202
Freud, Sigmund 93, 94, 95; 116;
Totem and Taboo 94
Friedman, Milton 2
friendships see relationships
Fukuyama, Francis xiii-xiv,
124; The Great Disrnption
235n, Trnst . .. 41, 124,135,
192,226
Gaebler, Ted see Osborne,
David
Galbraith,John Kenneth: The
Culture of Contentment 128, 129
games theory xiv, 235, 236
Gauguin,Paul 143
Gellner, Ernest: Conditions of
Liberty 123, 137n
'Generous' 238
Giddens, Anthony xvi
Gladstone,W. E.: The State in
its Relations with the Church 68,
69-70,71
Glazer,Nathan see Riesman,
David
Glendon,Mary Ann: Rights
Talk 29,139
globalisation xii
Godwin,William 102-3
Gombrich, Ernst 177
Gorbachev, Mikhail 124
government see state, the
288
Graeff, Roger: Living Dangerously
17
Gray.John 11, 49, 195; After
Social Democracy 172,190-1,
192; Enlightenment's Wake 142
Greece, ancient 39, 49, 56, 64,
66,67,165, 196,222-3
Greene, Graham 256
Gurr, Ted Robert 248
Gusdorf, Georges 77
Hadrian,Emperor 153
Halevi,Judah 223
Halsey,A. H. 49,126,189,
190,226
Hand,Judge Learned: 'The Spirit
of Liberty' 43
Handy, Charles: The Empty
Raincoat 128
happiness, pursuit of 202,
207-8, 209
Havel, Vaclav 124; Living in
Trnth 109
Hayek, Friedrich A. 11 ln, 138n,
191; The Constitution of Liberty
204-5; The Fatal Conceit 182
Hegel,G. W. F. 99,101,
107,223
Heidegger, Martin 99-100
Herder,Johann Gottfried 103-4
Herrnstein, Richard). see Wilson,
James Q.
Herzl,Theodor 174-5; Altneuland
175
Hill, Christopher 82
Himmelfarb,Gertrude 49; The
De-moralization of Society 257;
On Liberty and Liberalism . .
11 ln,255; On Looking into the
Abyss 123
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Hirschmann,A. 0. 117
Hitler, Adolf 107
Hobbes, Thomas xiii, 49;
Leviathan 58-60,81, 91,100,
103,114,133, 135,136,146,
170,249,264
Hobhouse, L. T.: Liberalism...
198,209
Hobsbawm, Eric: Age of
Extremes 11
Holocaust, the 34, 35, 268
homosexuality, laws on 112-13
hope and optimism 266-9
Hughes, Robert 132
Hulme, T. E.: Speculations 117-18
Hume, David x,90,91,94-5,
100, 105, 121; Treatise of
Human Nature 89-90,95,101
individual, the 33,76, 103, 105,
163--5, 177; and associations
55-60; and the state xii, 49-50,
60, 71-2,105,132-3,161; see
also individualism
individualism 47,48,77-86,
95-7,105, 110-11,120, 121,
124,166,177-8; in Victorian
era 249-50
industrial revolution 60,74,240,
246,248
institutions 57,64,73,212-13;
as mediating structures 44;
post-war changes in 36,37,38;
see families; marriage etc.
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma xiv,
237,239,242
Jacobs,Jane: The Death and Life of
Great American Cities 51
Jakobovits, Lord 200
289
James, Oliver 8
Japanese 126,242
Jefferson, Thomas 100, 250-1
Jerusalem 152-3,154-5
Jews and Jewish civilisation 56,
61, 64,66-7,87-9,200-1,
222-3; and anti-Semitism
98-101,175,256,268;
emancipation of 72-3; and
immigration to Britain xv,
255-6; see also Judaism
Jochanan ben Zakkai,Rabban
154
Johnson, Dr Samuel 250
Josephus 153-4
Joshua ben Garnla 155
Judaeo-Christian tradition 13,
26,37,93, 95,108,219,238,
260-1,262,268
Judaism 88,100,101,149-58,
159-60,165,260,268; see also
Bible, the
justice 162-3,165,238
Kant, Immanuel 90-1,94-6,99,
100,101,103, 105,107,121,
142,144,176,201
Kaus,Mickey: The End of
Equality 202-3
Kellner, Hansfried see Berger,
Peter
Kennedy,Robert 170-1
Keynes,John Maynard 2
kibbutzim 154n, 191
King,Martin Luther 43
kinship 62,74, 266
Kuhn, T. S.: The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions 180,228
Lacan, Jacques 83
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Lamennais, F. de 80-1
Landes,David: The Wealth and
Poverty of Nations 240
language 238: failure of 29-30;
and morality 217-21
Lasch, Christopher 10; The True
and Only Heaven 266-7
'late capitalism' 241
Lawrence,D. H. 225, 256;
Kangaroo 87
laws and law-abidingness 39,
43-4,230,253-4
Leach, Sir Edmund l 04
Letwin, Shirley Robin: The
Anatomy of Thatcherism 74
Lewis, C. S.: The Abolition of
Man 213
liberal democracy xv,12,13,
234,243
liberalism 66-76; and
libertarianism 1-4, 76,97,
112-22,134, 14o-6,232;
'money' 202-3
libertarianism xvii,112-22,123,
129-34,200,208-9,228-9,
232,234
liberty 1,202,203-5,233; of
conscience 66,70-2; Mill on
91,110-12,204; and relativism
33-40,46; see libertarianism
Lincoln,Abraham 36,141
Livy 24
Locke,John 59,81, 82,114,121,
140,144,146,217,218,264;
Letter Concerning Toleration 36,
70-1, 72
Lukes, Steven: Individualism 105
Luther, Martin 81,83,121
Macaulay,Lord 191-2,255;
290
Critical and Historical Essays 68,
69-70, 72-3
Macedo,Steven: Liberal Virtues 29
MacIntyre,Alasdair 48,84,136,
190; After Virtue 11,32-3,
156,160,177-8,179,219-20,
221; Marxism and Christianity
260; A Short History of Ethics
83,84; Whose Justice? Which
Rationality? 144n, 180n
Macmurray,John: Persons in
Relation 263
Magnet,Myron: The Dream and
the Nightmare 9n
Maimonides, Moses 56, 222-3;
Guide for the Perplexed 56
Maistre,Joseph de 81
Maritain,Jacques: Man and the
State 217
marriage xv,13,37, 82,102,103,
125,130-1,187-9,192-7,212,
213,266
Marx,Karl 93, 95,100,104,116,
127,180-1; A Contribution
to the Critique of Political
Economy 81,86
media,the 21-2,23, 46,210; see
also press,the
mercy 238
meritocracy 127
Middle Ages 68-9,144,146
Midgley, Mary: Can't We Make
Mora/Judgements? 210
Mill, Harriet (nee Taylor)
109-10,111
Mill,John Stuart 109-10;
Autobiography 255; Essays on
Ethics ... 204; Essays on Politics
and Culture 38-9; On Liberty
47,71,91,109,110-12,
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113,121,131,167,193,
204,255
Monteftore, Sir Moses 228,255
Montesquieu 102, 224
morality 15: as antidote to despair
265-9; concepts and systems
of59-60,98-99, 100--1,
105-6,138-9; contemporary
7-16,36-40,96-7,124-7;
debating 19-27,40, 45-7,
49-50; dilemmas of210-17;
and emotivism 31-3; the
Enlightenment and 13,32,
101,102,105-8, 142--4,146,
217-18,219,229,262;and
families 101--4,120,121,
185-97,212-13; fragments
xv; importance of 13, 227-8;
language and 217-21;and
libertarianism 112-22,129-30,
133-4,140-6; and politics 2,
3, 49, 195; privatisation of 3,
132; and relativism 28, 33-6,
210--17; and religion 20,75-6,
91,93--4, 11O;teaching of
18-22,62;and tradition 32-3,
87-9,96;Victorian 245-57; see
also virtue(s)
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick 126-7
M1V 11
Murdoch, Iris: The Sovereignty of
Good 145n
Murray, Charles: The Bell Curoe
128-9; In Pursuit 207
music 11
mutual aid movement 254
Nagel, Thomas: The View from
Nowhere 144
Nash,John 41
291
National Forum for Values
in Education and the
Community 179
Natural Born Killers (film) 11
Nelson,Benjamin: The Idea of
Usury 205
Neumann,John von 235-6
Neusner,Jacob: Conseroative,
American and Jewish 173
'new rich' 128
Nietzsche, Friedrich 85,93, 99,
100,101,107, 116; Beyond
Good and Evil 93--4, 95
Novak,Michael 49;Awakening
from Nihilism 12,28
Nowak, Martin 238
Nozick, Robert 161; Anarchy,
State and Utopia 2,60,162-3
Oakeshott,Michael 183
Orwell, George 25, 253
Osborne,David,and Gaebler,
Ted: Reinventing Government
171-2
'paradigm shift' 228
parenthood 18-19,26,102,103,
117,132
Passover,the 173--4,175,
178,183
Pharisees 154,157
philanthropy 118-20; Victorian
74-6,119,245,251-2
Phillips, Melanie 49,190;All
Must Have Prizes 132n, 183
philosophes 110
Pinker, Steven: The umguage
Instinct 218,220--1
Plamenatz,John: Man and Society
36,66,70
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Plato 49; The Republic 92-3,223
Polanyi,Michael: Personal
Knowledge . . .180
Pope,Alexander 107
Popper, Sir Karl 35,47, 138n
positivism 31
Pound, Ezra 256
press, the 20-1, 22
Prisoner's Dilemma 236, 237,239
Prochaska, Frank: Royal
Bounty ... 75,245,254
progress 117,266, 267
prophets, the 67, 260
Pulp Fiction (film) 11
punishment 36, 118,120
Putnam, Robert xiii-xiv,
241,242
Rapoport,Anatole xiv,237
Rav Kahana 151,152, 157
Rawls, John 140,161; A Theory of Rosk.ies,David: Against the
Justice 2,59,162,163
Reagan, Ronald 2,127,162,
178,262
reciprocal altruism xiv
reciprocity 238,239
Refonnation,the 70,81,
83,91,121
Regent's Park,London 41-2,
43,198-9
Reich, Robert: The Work of
Nations 128
relationships,importance of 57-8,
61, 101-4
relativism 28,33-6,38,39,40,
46, 49, 210-17
religion 8,33,36,127,212; and
the Enlightenment 104-5, 146,
262-3; and morality 20, 75-6,
91,93-4,110; and politics
68-70, 136-7, 140-1; wars of
70,105,142; see also Judaism;
Reformation
Rembrandt van Rijn 82
responsibility 40; 'nationalisation
of 132
Ricardo,David 81, 146
Ridley, Matt: The Origins of
Virtue 235n
Rieff, Philip 94; The Triumph of
the Therapeutic 120
Riesman, David, Glazer, Nathan
and Denney, Reuel: Ine Lonely
Crowd 250
rights 28-9,36,39,114-15, 120,
130,131, 164-5,234
Roberts, Robert: The Classic
Slum ... 252
Roge�, Carl 117
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 115
Apocalypse ...149
Rousseau,Jean-Jacques 33, 49,
103, 116-17,146,234,261,
264; The Soda/ Contract 59
Roussel,Louis 187
Rowntree (Joseph) Foundation
187-8
Ruse,Michael,and Wilson,
Edward 0.: 'The Evolution of
Ethics' 92
Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic
Verses 28,257n
Russell,Bertrand 90-1; History of
Western Philosophy 39
Rutter, Michael, and
Smith, David: Psychosodal
Disorders in Young
People 11,125
Ryle, Gilbert 144
292
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Sadducees 154,156,157,
159,160
Salanter,Rabbi Israel 15
Sandel, Michael 115, 169,175,
177; 190,191; Democracy's
Discontent 48, 164; Liberalism
and the Limits ofJustice 161,
162,163---4
Sartre, Jean-Paul 100,101,
121; Anti-Semite and Jew 100;
Existentialism and Humanism
95-6,214-15
schools xiv, 7, 37,117,120
Schopenhauer,Arthur 99,101
Schumpeter,Joseph 34, 242;
Capitalism, Socialism and
Democracy 240
science 33, 105,180,228
Scruton, Roger 49,195; The
Conservative Idea of Community
172,190-1,192; The
Philosopher on Dover Beach 229
Selbourne, David 11,49
self-interest 235,236,239
Sennett, Richard: The Fall of
Public Man 230
Shakespeare,William: Hamlet 82;
Troilus and Cressida 223
Sheehy, Gail: Passages ... 85
Shelley, Percy Bysshe:
Ozymandias 233; Prornetheus
Unbound 98,106,133
Sherborne House 17-18
Shils,Edward: Tradition 180n, 181
Singer, Isaac Bashevis 233
single parents 187,188-9,196
slavery 36, 93,220-1
Smiles, Samuel 249,251,255
Smith,Adam 81,82,206,239,
249; The Theory of Moral
293
Sentiments 242; The Wealth of
Nations 234-5, 242
Smith,David see Rutter, Michael
social capital xiv,xv, 239
'social covenant' xi
social contracts xi,58-9, 63-4,
135,162,209
social goods xiii
socialism 235
society/societies 1, 3---4, 42-3,
50-2,198; civil and political
55-65,67,73-6,135---40,158,
243,268-9; and the individual
77-86,162---4; problems of
43-50,see also crime etc.; and
the state 47-8,161-72
Society for the Prevention of
Pauperism 119
Solzhenitsyn,Alexander 124
Soros, George xii; The Crisis of
global Capitalism 242-3
Spinoza, Baruch 71-2, 144
Stark, Werner 83
state, the (government) 14, 16,
43,47-8,76; and the church
68-70,73,76, 136-7; and
community 16,73, 170-2,
264-5; and the individual xii,
1-2, 14, 15,49-50,60,71-2,
105,132-3,161; and welfare
2, 37,61-2,113,114-15,116,
118-20,126,128-9,132
Steiner, George: Real Presences
145n
Stephen,Leslie 120
Strawson,P. F.: Freedom and
Resentment 216
suicide 11,125,133, 186
Sunday,deregulation of 199-202
Sunday Times 9n
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surveys 8, 11, 131,186-8
survival of the fittest 237
Sykes,Charles 132; Dumbing
Down Our Kids 183
Taine,Hippolyte: Notes on
England 41-?,251-2
Tawney, R. H. 25; Equality 203;
The Radical Tradition 226
taxation 113,230
Taylor, A. J. P.: English History
1914-1945 113
Taylor, Charles 164-5, 169,175,
190; Sources of the Self 219
teachers 20-1,26,117,132,176;
see also education; schools
Temple,Archbishop William 25
Thatcher, Margaret 1, 2,50, 127,
162,262
Third Sector xii,xiii, xiv
Third Way xii
Times, The xi,21,255
Tit-for-Tat 237-8
Tocqueville,Alexis de 49,77,
166,241; Democracy in America
74,78-80,81-2, 110, 111,
113,120,166-70,191,206,
213,225,252,265; The Old
Regime and the French Revolution
77,206-7
Todd,Emmanuel: The
Explanation of Ideology ... 191
toleration 66, 70-1,72, 73
Torah, the 150-2,153,154
totalitarianism 35,38,73,
113,268
town planning 50-1
tradition(s): morality and 32-3,
87-9,96; role of 172, 173-84
Trainspotting (film) 11
294
Trilling, Lionel 120, 142; Beyond
Culture 120-1; Sincerity and
Authenticity 77, 152
Trivers,Robert 206
unemployment 126,127
universalism 102,105,107, 108
utilitarianism 91-2, 101,102-3,
180,215
'values' 37,38,39
Vespasian 154
Victorian era 22,41-2,47,56,
74-5, 119-20, 185,245-57
violence 9, 12, 13,28-9,30, 48,
see also crime
virtue(s) 15,37, 39, 49,120,129,
169,178-9,209,213,214,220,
222,232
vocabulary: changes in 180-1; see
also language
Voltaire 99, 142
voluntary organisations xi, 168,
169,172,224-5; Victorian
74-5,251
Walpole,Horace 247
Walzer,Michael 49, 164, 169,
175, 190; Citizenship and
Civil Society 241; Exodus and
Revolution 259; Spheres ofJustice
165-6,222n, 230
war(s) 76, 113-14, 123; of
religion 70,105, 142
Webb, Beatrice 254
Weber, Max 69,240; The
Protestant Ethic ... 83
welfare see under state, the
Whitehead, Barbara 188-9
Willetts, David 49
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Williams, Bernard: Moral Luck 143 Wolfenden Committee 112

Williams, Raymond: Wright, Robert: The Moral
Keywords . . . 180 Animal 235n
Wilson, Edward 0. see Ruse, Wycliffe, John 121
Michael
Wilson, James Q. 7, 49; (with Yeats, W. B.: The Second
Herrnstein) Crime and Coming 12
Human Nature 253; The Moral Yorke, Dr Clifford: Childhood and
Sense 35, 185 Social Truth 190
Wittgenstein, Ludwig:
Philosophical Investigations 17, 27 Zionism 175, 256

295