Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781541675315)

A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values.

With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds.

In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation.

A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.

Author: Jonathan Sacks
ISBN-10: 1541675312
ISBN-13: 9781541675315
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2020 pg. 60