The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World Audiobook (Free)

What moral values do humans hold in keeping? As globalization draws us together financially, are our beliefs converging or diverging? Specifically, are human rights becoming a global ethic? These were the queries that led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of answers. The Ordinary Virtues presents Ignatieff’s discoveries and his interpretation of what globalization-and level of resistance to it-is carrying out to our conscience and our moral understanding..READING MORE about THE NORMAL Virtues: Moral Order within a Divided World

Through dialogues with favela dwellers in Brazil, South Africans and Zimbabweans living in shacks, Japanese farmers, gang leaders in Los Angeles, and monks in Myanmar, Ignatieff discovered that while human rights could be the language of states and liberal elites, the moral language that resonates with most people is that of everyday virtues: tolerance, forgiveness, trust, and resilience. These ordinary virtues are the moral operating-system in global metropolitan areas and obscure shantytowns as well, the glue that makes the multicultural experiment work. Ignatieff looks for to understand the moral structure and psychology of the core values, which privilege the neighborhood over the general, and citizens’ statements over those of strangers.

Regular virtues, he concludes, are antitheoretical and anti-ideological. They could be cheerfully inconsistent. When purchase reduces and conflicts break out, they are often exploited to get a politics of dread and exclusion-reserved for your own group and denied to others. However they are also the main element to curing, reconciliation, and solidarity on both an area and a worldwide scale.