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Ethics and Public Policy Center
Overview
The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) is a conservative Washington, D.C.–based think tank and advocacy group. Founded in 1976, the group describes itself as "working to apply the riches of the Jewish and Christian traditions to contemporary questions of law, culture, and politics, in pursuit of America's continued civic and cultural renewal."
Since February 2021, EPPC's president has been Ryan T. Anderson, who previously worked at the Heritage Foundation, succeeding Edward Whelan, who serves as EPPC's vice president. Former president of EPPC from 1989 through June 1996, George Weigel, Catholic theologian and papal biographer, is also a distinguished senior fellow. EPPC is a 501(c)(3) organization.
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Only it has to be content with men who at the best can only offer the guarantee of personal responsibility, without any reliable security either for the stability of their convictions or the purity of their feelings. But now that the problem of organizing Public Opinion has once been proposed by Positivism, it cannot remain long without a solution. It plainly reduces itself to the principle of separating the two…
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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Is not the problem at the present time that of securing experts to manage administrative matters, other than the framing of policies? It may be urged that the present confusion and apathy are due to the fact that the real energy of society is now directed in all non-political matters by trained specialists who manage things, while politics are carried on with a machinery and ideas formed in the past to deal with…
John Dewey, The public and its problems
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Side by side with this political individualism went a religious and moral individualism. The metaphysical doctrine of the superiority of the species to the individual, of the permanent universal to the changing particular, was the philosophic support of political and ecclesiastical institutionalism. The universal church was the ground, end and limit of the individual's beliefs and acts in spiritual matters, just as…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Ethics and Public Policy Center
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- Washington, D.C.
- The Wall Street Journal
- Conservatism in the United States
- Ronald Reagan
- The New Atlantis (journal)
Place in the tradition
Part of Roger Scruton.
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