"No sociologist now writing is able to capture and describe American manners and morals better than Alan Wolfe."-David Brooks
Focusing on the traditional virtues of loyalty, honesty, self- restraint, and forgiveness, Wolfe (religion and American public life, Boston College) describes the state of contemporary moral thinking in the United States.
Admitting that this is a personal discussion of the nature of morality, Olen claims the "freedom" to engage these intellectual issues in a personal style to illustrate the personal moral point of view that he champions.
The final volume, Moral Freedom, deals with one of the oldest puzzles in both philosophy and theology: the individual's freedom of the will.Freedom of the will is a necessary precondition of morality.
( of values ) inheres universally in the meaning of moral freedom . Second Aporia . How can the will be free as against the principle to which as a moral will it ought to be subject ? Must it then not be at the same time determined and ...
Moral Freedom