LEADER 03622cam a2200409 i 4500005 20171113162712.0 008 170309t20172017mau b 001 0 eng c 003 hubpceuo 010 2017008712 020 9780674976276 |qhardcover 020 0674976274 |qhardcover 024 8 40027423777 035 (OCoLC)980302508 040 MH/DLC |beng |erda |cHLS |dDLC |dOCLCO |dYDX |dBTCTA |dBDX |dYDX |dYUS |dNYP 042 pcc 049 NYPP 050 00 BJ1521 |b.I36 2017 082 00 170.9 |223 100 1 Ignatieff, Michael, |eauthor. 245 14 The ordinary virtues : |bmoral order in a divided world / |cMichael Ignatieff. 260 Cambridge, Mass. ; London : |bHarvard University Press, |c2017. 300 263 pages ; |c23 cm. 337 unmediated 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: Moral globalization and its discontents -- Jackson Heights, New York: Diversity Plaza -- Los Angeles: the moral operating systems of global cities -- Rio de Janeiro: order, corruption, and public trust -- Bosnia: war and reconciliation -- Myanmar: the politics of moral narrative -- Fukushima: resilience and the unimaginable -- South Africa: after the rainbow -- Conclusion: Human rights, global ethics, and the ordinary virtues. 520 This is a study of what ethical principles and practices people around the world hold in common and what institutions best allow virtue to flourish. It is based on a Carnegie Council project on comparative ethics that Michael Ignatieff has run for the past three years. Most works of comparative ethics look at formal systems of belief. What, for example, do Christian and Confucian texts say about the role of the family? What do the Koran or John Rawls say about treatment of the poor? This is, by contrast, a work of "lived ethics." Ignatieff took a team of researchers around the world to examine what values and ethical beliefs guide diverse people in practice. They went to places where people are living under unusual stresses or where contemporary social challenges are particularly clear. They went to Brazil, for example, to discuss life where corruption is a serious problem, to Sarajevo to talk about reconciliation, to Queens in New York to talk about diversity, and to Fukushima, Japan, to talk about disaster and recovery. Overall, they found more commonality than they were expecting, that whatever formal systems of belief prevail, people tend to orient themselves in similar ways around the values of trust, tolerance, forgiveness, reconciliation, and resilience. But where people are suffering they often doubt that others share their ethical beliefs and begin to circle the wagons to defend their own group. We shouldn't expect citizens to be heroes. So what institutions and political arrangements encourage or inhibit virtue? Overall, Ignatieff says, liberal constitutionalism seems most effective, but only as long as poverty and inequality are not allowed to get out of hand.-- 650 0 Applied ethics |vCross-cultural studies. 650 0 Ethics |xSocial aspects |vCross-cultural studies. 650 0 Virtues |xSocial aspects |vCross-cultural studies. 650 0 Virtues |xPolitical aspects |vCross-cultural studies. 650 0 Ethics, Comparative. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6170_900000000000000_IGN |70 |8REF |9125388OSA |bOSA |d2017-11-13 |eOSA |l0 |o170.9 IGN |r2017-11-13 |w2017-11-13 |yBK |cReference 920 01 2Xb2EGXz 992 01 170_900000000000000_IGN |bYSZ_QZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_HJC 966 |cIn the Research Room