Five Pillars, Four Foundations, Three Dimensions, Two Perspectives, One Institution
“Five Pillars, Four Foundations, Three Dimensions, Two Perspectives, One Institution,” in J.R. Stoner & H. James eds. The Thriving Society (Princeton: Witherspoon, 2015).
Between the scylla of utopia and the charybdis of despair, the authors of these essays consider how modern society and its various institutions might be guided so that those who inhabit them might flourish. From a variety of perspectives and with diverse expertise, the essayists in The Thriving Society discuss foundational issues, institutional challenges, and controversial policies, from market freedom to family stability, from university culture to foreign affairs and public health. They neither supply a handbook for reform nor pen an apology for the past or the present. Instead, they launch citizens on a path to understanding how contemporary social practices sometimes facilitate and sometimes threaten human happiness–and so encourage citizens to think and act in responsible and innovative ways.
