Morality : restoring the common good in divided times /
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...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Cultural climate change
- Part one : The solitary self. 1. Loneliness
- 2. The limits of self-help
- 3. Unsocial media
- 4. The fragile family
- Part two : Consequences : the market and the state. 5. From "we" to "I"
- 6. Markets without morals
- 7. Consuming happiness
- 8. Democracy in danger
- 9. Identity politics
- 10. Time and consequence
- Part three : 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 four : Being human. 17. Human dignity
- 18. Meaning
- 19. Why morality?
- 20. Which morality?
- 21. Religion
- Part five : The way forward. 22. Morality matters
- 23. From "I" to "we"
- Epilogue.