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	Moral Politics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Morality: The basis of morality is in understanding, respecting, and helping other people, and in seeking the happiness of one's self and of others.
		In particular, conservatives were thought to better understand the importance of the connection between the family, morality, and politics, and, especially around 1994, were able to get quite a number of votes through making this important connection explicit for their constituents.
		Some claim that Moral Politics likens either liberals or conservatives (usually the latter) to (An older brother) Big Brother; the offending party is said to deliberately impose its views by repeating idioms and altering terms of reference in debate.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/moral_politics.htm (2721 words)

	Moral Politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think is a book by cognitive linguist George Lakoff.
		The book is an objective study of the conceptual metaphors underlying conservative and liberal politics although the closing section is devoted to the author's personal views.
		Some claim that Moral Politics likens either liberals or conservatives (usually the latter) to Big Brother; the offending party is said to deliberately impose its views by repeating idioms and altering terms of reference in debate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moral_Politics (2698 words)

	Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings.
		Although it is generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions including corporate, academic, and religious.
		Political science is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Politics (943 words)

	Moral Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We are engaged in politics and political talk all the time, and yet, it is difficult for law teachers to admit their politics.
		Politics is elections, campaign speeches, attempts to persuade a government official to make a decision favorable to one's interest, a contribution of money to a political officeholder or to someone one aspires to the office.
		This conception of politics, as the activity of electing and influencing public officials who are publicly elected, makes it difficult to see politics in law, in the law office, and the politics of legal discourse in the classroom.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/pmpl99/writings/moralpolitics.html (2280 words)

	Moral politics - SourceWatch
		Moral politics is the name of a book and a theory of George Lakoff.
		A very closely related theory of Jane Jacobs is that two moral syndromes, the guardian syndrome more associated with rule of a stable fief, and the trader syndrome more associated with merchants and commerce, were fundamental to professional ethics and thus to political and economic choices.
		This would tend to be the general view inherent in green politics and in libertarian politics, both of whom may be sub-branches of moral politics itself, and interestingly, both claim to be "neither left nor right".
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Moral_politics (447 words)

	Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American academy--was itself an example of the aesthetic politics he thought he was critiquing and that he imagined was...
		Politics is often compared to ethics (ideas about right and wrong).
		Bernard Crick wrote an important list of the political virtues, which were about best practices of politics itself.
	encyclopedia.st /Politics (527 words)

	Tools: Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think $14.47 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MORAL POLITICS should be helpful tо any liberal or conservative who hаs ever genuinely tried to understand how the other side thinks and been left bewildered.
		Тhе political landscape is littered with similarly inapt labels that purport to explain humаn behavior in the context of the political decision-making process.
		In politics it is the government as parents, the сitizеns as the children.
	www.tools-online.pp.ru /tovar30323236343637373136.html (2465 words)

	Politics and Moral Values by Butler Shaffer
		Moral thinking is a uniquely personal undertaking, by which individuals develop their inner sense of principled behavior.
		The politicization of "moral values" is but a front for more state meddling in the private lives of individuals.
		But focusing moral inquiries around the private property principle is the most politically incorrect thing one can do in a politicized world, for such would call into question the very existence of the state.
	www.lewrockwell.com /shaffer/shaffer90.html (1820 words)

	Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, by George Lakoff
		But where conservatives are relatively aware of how their politics relates to their views of family life and morality, liberals are less aware of the implicit view of morality and the family that organizes their own political beliefs.
		Moral self-interest says that if everyone is free to pursue their self-interest, the overall self-interests of all will be maximized.
		Moral authority, in the nurturance model, functions as a consequence of nurturance.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/467716.html (3741 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Moral Politics : What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moral Politics is written in a dry, academic style, but it offers an intelligent take on the way politics is conducted in America.
		Lakoff concludes with the observation that ``public political discourse is so impoverished at present that it cannot accommodate'' discussions of matters like family-based moralities- -unless, that is, liberals and conservatives begin to develop a ``meta-language'' that will enable them to speak of such things.
		Politically, Lakoff is on the far left of the spectrum and his concept of a progressive family and a conservative family reflects that view.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226468054?v=glance (2799 words)

	Metaphor, Morality, and Politics
		Conservatives understand that morality and the family are at the heart of their politics, as they are at the heart of most politics.
		Moral Growth: Given that morality is conceptualized as uprightness, it is natural to conceptualize one's degree of morality as physical height, to understand norms for the degree of moral action as height norms, and to therefore see the possibility for "moral growth" as akin to physical growth.
		Thus, moral nurturance for a conservative is the nurturance to be morally strong.
	www.wwcd.org /issues/Lakoff.html (10788 words)

	Jefferson on Politics & Government: Moral Principles
		Morality is intimately related to a nation's government, for as James Madison wrote, "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea." Morality refers to conduct that is proper between members of society.
		The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm.
		"Moral duties [are] as obligatory on nations as on individuals." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1808.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /jefferson/quotations/jeff0200.htm (2932 words)

	Powell's Books - Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 2nd Ed by George Lakoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		George Lakoff analyzed recent political discussion to find that the family — especially the ideal family — is the most powerful metaphor in politics today.
		Revealing how family-based moral values determine views on diverse issues as crime, gun control, taxation, social programs, and the environment, George Lakoff looks at how conservatives and liberals link morality to politics through the concept of family and how these ideals diverge.
		Arguing that conservatives have exploited the connection between morality, the family, and politics, while liberals have failed to recognized it, Lakoff explains why conservative moral position has not been effectively challenged.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0226467716-0 (440 words)

	All Too Human: Book Review: Moral Politics
		His book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, gives us insight into how Democrats can develop a language to express their world view.
		Many moral categories are understood based on a metaphor that conceptualizes moral interactions as financial transactions.
		There are all sorts of alternatives that American political culture rarely even considers, for example a liberal-communitarian spectrum, a European or Asian understanding of the state, or a more substantive and positive (meaning entitlemets and responsibilities) understanding of rights like you see in a country like Germany.
	www.alltoohuman.org /blogarchive/000038.html (2244 words)

	Rant+Rave: Moral Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He then traces how conservative and liberal political ideas are informed by two very different conceptual models of the ideal family, what he calls the "Strict Father" family and the "Nurturant Parent" family.
		Lakoff shows that the emphasis in the "Strict Father" morality is on reward for doing good and punishment for transgressing moral boundaries, moral authority, integrity and self-reliance, and shows how these values translate into conservative political positions.
		Lakoff says that family-based morality is all-encompassing for many people, therefore they will always frame political questions in light of their family values.
	blog.danceslut.net /archives/000184.html (610 words)

	Moral Politics - A Morality-Based Political Test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Take this new morality-based political test now to find where you fit on the Moral Matrix.
		Moral views are the major factors that influence political opinions.
		Every political stance can be explained by one's moral position on the inner value of human beings and their role in society.
	www.moral-politics.com (145 words)

	BookBlog: Meet the Fockers / Moral Politics
		George Lakoff's theory -- explained in Moral Politics, and popularized in the last election cycle -- contends that conservative politics is modeled on a "strict father" family, while liberal politics is based on a "nurturant parent" theory.
		Conservatives draw on the parenting philosophy of James Dobson, based on harsh discipline and physical punishment, where liberals draw on the empathetic philosophy of T. Berry Brazelton, where discipline is based on teaching the child to understand the feelings of others and consequences of their actions.
		Lakoff's family dynamics are part of a valuable effort to explain the moral basis of liberal beliefs.
	alevin.com /weblog/archives/001533.html (732 words)

	GBN: Moral Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Within Strict Father morality, illegal immigrants are seen as lawbreakers who should be punished.
		Families, villages, and regions that have suffered incalculable effects of economic and social privation, political cruelty, and the impacts of misguided policies by Mao?and ever since.
		From the perspective of Nurturant Parent morality, powerless people with no immoral intent are seen as innocent children needing nurturance.
	www.gbn.com /BookClubSelectionDisplayServlet.srv?si=166 (764 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Moral Politics, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious worldviews of liberals and conservatives, explaining why they are at odds over so many seemingly unrelated issues-like taxes, abortion, regulation, and social programs.
		The "Strict Father" model of family morality that conservatives subscribe to is based on the hierarchical authority of the father who sets and enforces rules of behavior.
		Moral strength is often not the outcome and violent behavior seems to be reproduced.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226467716?v=glance (2805 words)

	Rockridge Institute - Moral Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this classic text, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious and rhetorical worldviews of liberals and conservatives, discovering radically different but remarkably consistent conceptions of morality on both the left and right.
		In Moral Politics, [he] deftly applies that seemingly arcane understanding to the heart of American politics.
		His commitment is strong and deep, but his language is far from the rhetoric usually associated with political partisanship.
	www.rockridgeinstitute.org /bookstore/moralpolitics (237 words)

	ipedia.com: Moral Politics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Conservatives have a Strict Father morality in which people are made good thru self-discipline and hard work.
		(What Lakoff means by these two terms is considered below.) On the other hand, he also attempts to justify why "liberal" morals and politics (of which the author admits to partake) are superior to "conservative" morals and politics.
		George Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, describes a fictional totalitarian regime lead by Big Brother, which teaches its citizens a version of English ("Newspeak") in which opposition to it cannot be expressed.
	www.ipedia.com /moral_politics.html (2689 words)

	MRB: Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England Since, 1830 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Book Description: Dangerous Sexualities examines the ways in which perception of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex and makes use of historical narratives to underpin contemporary debates concerning morality, sexuality and health with particular reference to AIDS.
		Part I covers moral environmentalism from 1830-1860 with chapters on cholera, eighteen-century social medicine, working-class female sexuality and professional masculinity.
		Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830, Routledge 1987, 2 nd ed., 2001 is good on the Contagious...
	www.medical-research-books.com /mrb-books-reviewed/071021183X.html (540 words)

	Article from PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS Issue 95
		And they are integrated, to a small degree, on the level of political ideals and when forming opinions on current political events.
		The political views can be refined and broadened on the intellectual level through the usual means of reading, discussion and political action.
		New political encounters will be engaged with a different understanding and produce different knowledge and the creation of different truths.
	www.philosophos.com /philosophy_article_96.html (2137 words)

	Moral Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moral Politics also streams live on the web at 6p on Thursdays.
		Moral Politics serves to organize us because united we are stronger.
		We really didn't think "Moral Politics" would be complete without a section on "religion".
	www.moralpolitics.org (333 words)

	Rockridge Institute - Moral Politics - The Nation as a Family
		Moral Politics - The Nation as a Family
		A three-part series examining the use of metaphor in applying what we know about families—small, close-knit groups of people that we deal with often—to nations—large, complicated groups of people that we never interact with directly.
		Parts two and three discuss two different idealized models of the family that lead to the two main political ideologies in our society today.
	www.rockridgeinstitute.org /projects/strategic/nationasfamily (263 words)

	Julian's Jabberings: Moral Politics
		In Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservative Think, George Lakoff provides the conceptual underpinnings for the ideas he summarizes in Don’t Think of An Elephant.
		Lakoff presents a cognitive science theory of the metaphors that liberals and conservatives apply when making moral judgments, which in turn determine their political stands.
		These family models lead to specific political views because parenting is a common metaphor for government.
	www.mindspring.com /~teleri/julian/2005/02/moral-politics.html (332 words)

	Troppo Armadillo: The new moral politics
		In the old days right wing politics in America was all about getting government off our backs and dropping bombs on recalcitrant third world countries.
		Viguerie was frustrated by Goldwater's lack of interest in an alliance between economic and social conservatives while Phillips wanted elite, economically minded, conservatives to reach out to ordinary social conservative voters - the kind of people who cared more about drug abuse, busing, and abortion than they did about industry regulation or capital gains taxes.
		It is almost an axiom that no man may make a career in politics in the Republic without stooping to such ignobility: it is as necessary as a loud voice.
	troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com /archives/007409.html (1657 words)

	XtremeSystems Forums - Moral Politics Test
		Apparently believing that we shouldn't let people die in the streets and engender a police-state through irrational moral law as well as rewarding businesses that benefit society means I support the deconstruction of the idea of personal property.
		The questions are either vague or leading and the multiple choice answers for some answer completely different interpretations of the question they are answering.
		mom,mom i scored a minus four in moral order and a 1 in moral rules..
	www.xtremesystems.org /forums/showthread.php?t=54169 (1666 words)

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