Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice
by Alan Wolfe
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"No sociologist now writing is able to capture and describe American manners and morals better than Alan Wolfe."-David BrooksTags
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Have no general comment about a year after reading the book. The summary of my reading notes was:
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The book mainly reports survey results. This makes some sense as nobody wants to accept fixed imposed rules any more, and studying mechanisms of forming moral consensus promises the next best solution to the moral problem. But the author seems to have a religious interest, and much of the book, especially in the latter part, reports opinions of lay religious people. No striking systematic results, no evidence of convergence caught my attention. Some interesting points about the history of ethics are made. (Several respondents without TV are reported, and some complaints about advertising pressure, but no prognosis or significance show more assessment of this is given.) show less
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The book mainly reports survey results. This makes some sense as nobody wants to accept fixed imposed rules any more, and studying mechanisms of forming moral consensus promises the next best solution to the moral problem. But the author seems to have a religious interest, and much of the book, especially in the latter part, reports opinions of lay religious people. No striking systematic results, no evidence of convergence caught my attention. Some interesting points about the history of ethics are made. (Several respondents without TV are reported, and some complaints about advertising pressure, but no prognosis or significance show more assessment of this is given.) show less
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Alan Wolfe is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion & American Public Life at Boston College, & author of the best-selling "One Nation After All". (Bowker Author Biography)
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