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Democracy and our Intellectual Plight

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Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare

Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy ((PSSP,volume 3))

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[In his later years at General Theological Seminary Miller increasingly focussed his consequence-theory of morality, the morality of results in human welfare, on “the social idea”. He became increasingly concerned with social welfare as the animating center of education, religion, and politics and gave expression to that concern in the article to follow, one of several with kindred themes that appeared from 1921 to 1925 in The New Republic, a periodical whose tendencies he shared.

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Miller, D.S. (1975). Democracy and our Intellectual Plight. In: Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1792-3_18

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