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The quest for a moral compass : a global history of ethics / Kenan Malik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malik, Kenan, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics--History.
- Ethics.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 390 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Atlantic Books, 2014.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. On the capriciousness of gods and the tragedy of Man
- 2. Gods of reason
- 3. On human flourishing
- 4. Heaven and hell
- 5. Nirvana
- 6. The view from the mountains
- 7. Faith and power
- 8. Reason and Revelation
- 9. The human challenge
- 10. The revolutionary spirit and the reactionary soul
- 11. The human triumph
- 12. Passion, duty and consequence
- 13. The challenge of history
- 14. The death of God, the end of morality
- 15. The anguish of freedom
- 16. The ethics of liberation
- 17. The unravelling of morality
- 18. The search for ethical concrete
- 19. Confucianism, communism and the clash of civilizations
- 20. The Fall of Man.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-369) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781848874794
- 1848874790
- OCLC:
- 868380467
- Publisher Number:
- 99958586346
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