Ordinary Virtues
Moral Order in a Divided World
Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling.”
—New Statesman
What moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things we value converging or diverging? These twin questions led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of an answer. What we share, he found, are what he calls “ordinary virtues”: tolerance, forgiveness, trust, and resilience. When conflicts break out, these virtues are easily exploited by the politics of fear and exclusion, reserved for one’s own group but denied to others. Yet these ordinary virtues are the key to healing and reconciliation on both a local and global scale.
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MICHAEL IGNATIEFF is the author of Isaiah Berlin and The Warrior's Honour, as well as sixteen other acclaimed books, including a memoir, The Russian Album and the Booker finalist Scar Tissue. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Fresh Air and Fareed Zakariah GPS. Former head of Canada's Liberal Party and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, he is currently the president of Central European University in Budapest.
On Consolation
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Ordinary Virtues
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Fire and Ashes
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Passages
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True Patriot Love
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Blood and Belonging
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Lesser Evil
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Empire Lite
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Isaiah Berlin
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The Russian Album
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Scar Tissue
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Charlie Johnson in the Flames
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