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050	0	4	_aE457 _b.L563 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBurt, John, _d1955- _e1
245	1	0	_aLincoln's tragic pragmatism : _bLincoln, Douglas, and moral conflict / _cJohn Burt.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tAcknowledgments -- _t1 Introduction: Implicitness and Moral Conflict -- _t2 Lincoln's Peoria Speech of 1854 -- _t3 Lincoln's Conspiracy Charge -- _t4 Douglas's Conspiracy Charge -- _t5 Douglas's Fanaticism Charge -- _t6 Douglas's Racial Equality Charge -- _t7 The Dred Scott Case -- _t8 Aftershocks of the Debates -- _t9 Coda: And the War Came -- _tNotes -- _tWorks Cited -- _tIndex.
520	0		_aIn 1858, challenger Abraham Lincoln debated incumbent Stephen Douglas seven times in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. More was at stake than slavery in those debates. In Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism, John Burt contends that the very legitimacy of democratic governance was on the line. In a United States stubbornly divided over ethical issues, the overarching question posed by the Lincoln-Douglas debates has not lost its urgency: Can a liberal political system be used to mediate moral disputes? And if it cannot, is violence inevitable? As they campaigned against each other, both Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict as profound as the one over slavery strained the commitment upon which democracy depends--namely, to rule by both consent and principle. This commitment is not easily met, because what conscience demands and what it is able to persuade others to consent to are not always the same. While Lincoln ultimately avoided a politics of morality detached from consent, and Douglas avoided a politics of expediency devoid of morality, neither found a way for liberalism to mediate the conflict of slavery. That some disputes seemed to lie beyond the horizon of deal-making and persuasion and could be settled only by violence revealed democracy's limitations. Burt argues that the unresolvable ironies at the center of liberal politics led Lincoln to discover liberalism's tragic dimension--and ultimately led to war. Burt's conclusions demand reevaluations of Lincoln and Douglas, the Civil War, and democracy itself.
520	0		_aIn their famous debates, Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict like slavery strained democracy's commitment to rule by both consent and principle. What conscience demands and what it can persuade others to agree to are not always the same. Ultimately, this tragic limitation of liberalism led Lincoln to war.
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600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865 _xPolitical and social views.
600	1	0	_aLincoln, Abraham, _d1809-1865 _xEthics.
600	1	0	_aDouglas, Stephen A. _q(Stephen Arnold), _d1813-1861 _xPolitical and social views.
600	1	0	_aDouglas, Stephen A. _q(Stephen Arnold), _d1813-1861 _xEthics.
650		0	_aLincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858.
650		0	_aDemocracy _xMoral and ethical aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSlavery _xMoral and ethical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502794&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell