"The proper use of government may be essential to provide the environment in which society can flourish. The functions of government are no longer limited to national defense, fiscal and foreign policy, and restraint of antisocial individuals and groups. Everyone in our modern society seems to agree that it is the government's responsibility to ...
"In the United States, we try to comfort ourselves with the belief that this country, as the leading world power and industrial democracy, is different from the rest of the world--that we have solved our day-to-day problems. Such optimism--undergirded with the best of intentions--obscures the reality of the social problems that remain among us. To ...
"In the 1992 Lectures . . . the theme is repeatedly stressed that the freedom of belief which the First Amendment protects from state action includes the right to speak freely, the right to refrain from speaking, and the freedom of the press. These rights are essential components of a broader concept of freedom of thought; there can be no freedom ...
"In the 1993 Lectures on Moral Values in a Free Society, the importance of individual freedom and the danger of self-centeredness are repeatedly stressed, as are the importance of social responsibility and the danger of excessive government control. By exposing injustice and inequality, social conscience keeps before our eyes the ideal of a ...
This volume contains the proceedings of the eighteenth annual Lectures on Moral Values in a Free Society held at the University of Texas at Dallas on November 11-13, 1996. The lecture series is designed to provide a forum for discussing vital issues that confront society today, based on an understanding of the system of moral values on which our ...
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