Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times - Jonathan Sacks

Category: Education, Political
Language: English
Keywords: America Britain History Jewish Judaism Morality Natural Law Philosophy Spirituality West Wisdom

Written by Jonathan Sacks
Read by Jonathan Sacks
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 14h 04m

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.

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INTRODUCTION ● Cultural Climate Change
PART I ● THE SOLITARY SELF
01 Loneliness
02 The Limits of Self-Help
03 Unsocial Media
04 The Fragile Family
PART II ● CONSEQUENCES: THE MARKET AND THE STATE
05 From “We” to “I”
06 Markets Without Morals
07 Consuming Happiness
08 Democracy in Danger
09 Identity Politics
10 Time and Consequence
PART III ● CAN WE STILL REASON TOGETHER??
11 Post-Truth
12 Safe Space
13 Two Ways of Arguing
14 Victimhood
15 The Return of Public Shaming
16 The Death of Civility
PART IV ● BEING HUMAN
17 Human Dignity
18 Meaning
19 Why Morality?
20 Which Morality?
21 Religion
PART V ● THE WAY FORWARD
22 Morality Matters
23 From “I” to “We”
EPILOGUE

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rabbisacks.org/books/morality