Moral Soundings: Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life Book

	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. I	Morals and money	1
1	The spirit of capitalism 2000	3
2	Markets and the social structure of morality	25
3	Two cheers for capitalism	37
Pt. II	The promise of equality	49
4	Nihilism in Black America	51
5	Life, liberty, property	59
6	Still the land of opportunity?	67
7	The moral demands of global justice	83
Pt. III	Where love meets obligation : the family in turmoil	95
8	Philosophical reflections on the family at millennium's beginning	97
9	Reconcilable differences : what it would take for marriage and feminism to say "I do"	107
10	Why Marriage?	117
Pt. IV	Coping with hi-tech cowboys	135
11	The age of genetic technology arrives	137
12	What's at the bottom of the slippery slope : a post-human future?	155
Pt. V	In God we trust - or do we?	175
13	Can we be good without hell?	177
14	Everything I like about religion I learned from an atheist	185
Pt. VI	Global conflict	195
15	The future of "history" : Francis Fukuyama vs. Samuel P. Huntington	197
16	The clash of ignorance	215
Pt. VII	It's all good : life among the relativists	225
17	Are we living in moral stone age?	227
18	Of cave dwellers and spirits : the trouble with moral absolutes	235
Pt. VIII	Renewals	251
19	Ecological humanism : a moral image for our emotive culture	253
20	American national pride	261
21	Society in the postmodern era	273
	Suggestions for further reading	293
	Index	295