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# The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics

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    Intellectual depth communicated with grace and style.
  

*by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2014*

This is a fabulous book and written with a graceful and occasionally humorous style, with reference to some current events to nicely balance the two thousand years or more of moral philosophy covered. If you want to appreciate the really long term history of humans grappling with the question of what is right and wrong and on whose authority, you will find an authoritative yet accessible narrative here. Highly recommended.

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    An Outstanding Précis of Ethical History
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2019*

I don't recall how I stumbled across Malik's The Quest for a Moral Compass:  A Global History of Ethics*, but it has been for me an outstanding presentation of essentially all ethical thinkers of recorded history (and he does it in just 344 pages) on the search for the font of ethics:  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Moses, Jesus, Augustine, Hindu texts, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammad, Aquinas, Dante, Luther, Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Bentham, Mill (John Stuart), Hegel, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Spencer, Darwin, Dewey, and others of whom we've not always (or never) heard or have forgotten.  Malik translates into easily intelligible prose the sometimes (or often) abstruse original philosophical propositions.Malik addresses questions such as the Euthyphro dilemma (is it good because the gods love it, or do the gods love it because it is good?) and Foot's trolley problem (do you pull the switch to divert a runaway trolley from killing five strangers to killing just one, but what if that one person is your beloved?).  If you don't like thinking about these sorts of questions, then The Quest is definitely not for you.  As for me, it's a keeper, and I will be rereading it.Spoiler alert:  Malik concludes ethics derive from social norms, id est, natural law, not divine precepts, though a culture may justify its morals theologically.

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    A very accessible history of morality
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015*

A book that charts thousands of years of philosophy has no right to be this accessible. That is not to suggest Kenan Malik speaks down to the reader, only that his mastery of the subject, allows him to connect to those who come to this book, without having done a Degree level amount of preparation. If you have even the remotest interest in how our species derives its values, then this book is a wonderful place to begin.

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