My book The Quest for a Moral Compass is published this week. There has already been an early review in the Tablet from the former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who compared the book to Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy: This is intellectual history in the grand manner, in the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, written with the same clarity, accessibility and narrative verve as the master himself. As the subtitle, “a global history of ethics”, makes clear, […]

Categories: History of moral thought, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: alasdair macintyre, aquinas, aristotle, emotivism, enlightenment, ethics, history of moral thought, human agency, human nature, liberalism, marxism, modernity, moral autonomy, teleology, virtue ethics