Seeking Community in a Divided World

Abstract

Seeking Community in a Divided World seeks a common moral vision amongst values diversity. It recognizes the value confusion and conflicts burdening our lives but asks for dialogical conversation based on such principles, as human integrity and dignity, decency, fairness, responsibility, and equality. These common, but uncommon values are a framework for building moral communities. We acknowledge that our lives are a web of relationships and that ethical bonds are needed for building strong moral communities, nations, and the protection of the environment. Although this article provides no absolutes, it is tasked with presenting a moral ecology of persons grounded in moral human relationships. The time has come for a renewed conversation about the values that sustain a free people.