Author: Arthur E. Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135147409X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming crowd of their own creations to maintain human integrity. In this manual for human survival, Arthur E. Morgan offers a solution: peaceful existence in the small, primary community where, more easily than anywhere else, people can find a way to live well. Ultimately striving to show that the small community is the lifeblood of civilization, this volume examines the political organization, membership, economics, health, and ethics characteristics of small communities.Like Rousseau before him, Morgan observes that we have less control over our affairs than in the past. In increasing our control of the natural environment, human beings have built a social environment so out of scale that it becomes nearly impossible for people to maintain balance. The struggle now is less with the natural order than with the social order, and preserving human integrity against the plethora of our own creations is the core problem.The need to rediscover elementary forms of human existence has been accelerated by the efficiencies of centralized control and mass persuasion. In the face of this, small communities or intimate groups become the primary pattern in which human beings must live if the good life is to be a realistic goal. The timely nature of this volume has grown as the electronic displaces the mechanical as a moral rival to human community.
The Small Community
Author: Arthur E. Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135147409X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming crowd of their own creations to maintain human integrity. In this manual for human survival, Arthur E. Morgan offers a solution: peaceful existence in the small, primary community where, more easily than anywhere else, people can find a way to live well. Ultimately striving to show that the small community is the lifeblood of civilization, this volume examines the political organization, membership, economics, health, and ethics characteristics of small communities.Like Rousseau before him, Morgan observes that we have less control over our affairs than in the past. In increasing our control of the natural environment, human beings have built a social environment so out of scale that it becomes nearly impossible for people to maintain balance. The struggle now is less with the natural order than with the social order, and preserving human integrity against the plethora of our own creations is the core problem.The need to rediscover elementary forms of human existence has been accelerated by the efficiencies of centralized control and mass persuasion. In the face of this, small communities or intimate groups become the primary pattern in which human beings must live if the good life is to be a realistic goal. The timely nature of this volume has grown as the electronic displaces the mechanical as a moral rival to human community.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135147409X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming crowd of their own creations to maintain human integrity. In this manual for human survival, Arthur E. Morgan offers a solution: peaceful existence in the small, primary community where, more easily than anywhere else, people can find a way to live well. Ultimately striving to show that the small community is the lifeblood of civilization, this volume examines the political organization, membership, economics, health, and ethics characteristics of small communities.Like Rousseau before him, Morgan observes that we have less control over our affairs than in the past. In increasing our control of the natural environment, human beings have built a social environment so out of scale that it becomes nearly impossible for people to maintain balance. The struggle now is less with the natural order than with the social order, and preserving human integrity against the plethora of our own creations is the core problem.The need to rediscover elementary forms of human existence has been accelerated by the efficiencies of centralized control and mass persuasion. In the face of this, small communities or intimate groups become the primary pattern in which human beings must live if the good life is to be a realistic goal. The timely nature of this volume has grown as the electronic displaces the mechanical as a moral rival to human community.
Action Handbook : Managing Growth in the Small Community
Author: Briscoe, Maphis, Murray, and Lamont
Publisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Comprehensive Planning Assistance in the Small Community
Author: Hammer, Greene, Siler Associates
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Future of the Small Community Essential Air Service Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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The Administration of the Part-time School in the Small Community ...
Author: Ralph Edward Berry
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Category : Evening and continuation schools
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category : Evening and continuation schools
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Action Handbook : Managing Growth in the Small Community: Getting the community involved and organized
Author: Briscoe, Maphis, Murray, and Lamont
Publisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Small Communities Environmental Assistance
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Small Community Air Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Publisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Small Communities Act of 1978
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Essential Air Service and Small Community Air Service Development Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation
Publisher:
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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