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.