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Written By : James Q. Wilson
Peformed By : Nadia May
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Duration : 12 hours
Categories : Philosophy
Download Price : $34.95 $23.95
James Q. Wilson has taken an unfashionable but undeniably crucial question about moral nature and produced a bracing, elegant, carefully researched and closely argued controversy. Everyone should read it. Michael Crichton
Wilson admits in the preface of his book that virtue has acquired a bad name. However, people make some kind of reference to morality whenever they discuss whether or not someone is nice, dependable, or decent; whether they have a good character; and the aspects of friendship, loyalty, and moderation that are all informed by morality. Although we may disguise this language of morality as a language of personality, it is, in Wilsons words, the language of virtue and vice, which he uncovers in his book. He goes on to say, This book is not an effort to state or justify moral rules; that is, it is not a book of philosophy. Rather, it is an effort to clarify what ordinary people mean when they speak of their moral feelings and to explain, insofar as one can, the origins of those feelings.
With this book James Q. Wilson rescues morality from the hype and carping of partisan interests. Focusing on our shared moral sensibilities and the basic human realities and experiences that shape them, he provides terms by which people of widely divergent perspectives can address common problems anew. The Moral Sense makes a singularand for our generation, decisively importantcontribution."James Davison Hunter, author of Culture Wars
Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
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