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The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0674237498
ISBN13: 9780674237490
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Apr 1 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling.
--New Statesman

What moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things we value converging or diverging? These twin questions led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of an answer. What we share, he found, are what he calls ordinary virtues tolerance, forgiveness, trust, and resilience. When conflicts break out, these virtues are easily exploited by the politics of fear and exclusion, reserved for one's own group but denied to others. Yet these ordinary virtues are the key to healing and reconciliation on both a local and global scale.

Makes for illuminating reading.

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