Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary
Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary
Helen Gurley Brown's influence on American culture shows how important individuals are in affecting major moral changes
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Aug. 23, 2012
How do you turn the world upside down? In the span of just five decades, the moral and cultural world has been transformed by the sexual revolution. In terms of both public and private impact, no moral revolution can come close to the importance of the sexual revolution, and none has occurred so quickly. The moral world taken for granted in 1960 has virtually disappeared.
Helen Gurley Brown, who died last week at age 90, was one of the most important, if often underestimated, agents of that revolution.
Moral revolutions do not happen by accident, nor are they orchestrated by a cabal of cultural conspirators. As Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton University argued in his 2010 book, The Honor Code, moral revolutions do not emerge instantaneously. In most cases, the basic ideas and claims to knowledge lay dormant for some time. In looking at moral shifts including the end of dueling and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Appiah notes that "a moral revolution has to involve a rapid transformation in moral behavior, not just in moral sentiments."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Helen Gurley Brown's influence on American culture shows how important individuals are in affecting major moral changes
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE
http://www.theatlantic.com/
Aug. 23, 2012
How do you turn the world upside down? In the span of just five decades, the moral and cultural world has been transformed by the sexual revolution. In terms of both public and private impact, no moral revolution can come close to the importance of the sexual revolution, and none has occurred so quickly. The moral world taken for granted in 1960 has virtually disappeared.Helen Gurley Brown, who died last week at age 90, was one of the most important, if often underestimated, agents of that revolution.
Moral revolutions do not happen by accident, nor are they orchestrated by a cabal of cultural conspirators. As Kwame Anthony Appiah of Princeton University argued in his 2010 book, The Honor Code, moral revolutions do not emerge instantaneously. In most cases, the basic ideas and claims to knowledge lay dormant for some time. In looking at moral shifts including the end of dueling and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Appiah notes that "a moral revolution has to involve a rapid transformation in moral behavior, not just in moral sentiments."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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