

The Moral Sense
Author: James Q. Wilson
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/22/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Author: James Q. Wilson
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/22/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy
James Q. Wilson is James Collins professor of management and public policy at UCLA. Winner of the 1990, James Madison Award of the American Political Science Association, he is also the author of Moral Judgement.
Wanda McCaddon (d. 2023) narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, sometimes with the pseudonym Nadia May or Donada Peters. She earned the prestigious Audio Award for best narration and numerous Earphones Awards. She was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.
I normally wouldn't give a book that is this slow such a high rating. Some of the chapters are longer than they need to be. Despite that, Wilson's argument is so interesting that it is worth struggling through some rather difficult writing to try to understand it. Wilson is making a very conservativ......more
I first heard of Dr. Wilson after recently reading glowing obituaries in many respected publications. His teaching and publications have been influential to many better known authorities. As I am a psychiatrist working with emotionally disturbed adolescents, I felt I should know his work better. I h......more
It seems strange to me that anyone would doubt the existence of a moral sense. Do these doubters not have a moral sense? If they do have a moral sense then how can they doubt the existence of something they themselves have? If you do not have a moral sense yourself then this book gives objective evi......more
The theme of the book is that there are universal moral senses among human. Therefore, the notion that everything depends on the culture (culture relativism) is wrong. The book argues this point by looking at some basic components of moral, such as sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. The auth......more
A well reasoned cautious book with a thesis that went against the intellectual grain but really shouldn’t. The moral sense is actually multiple senses: sympathy, fairness, self-control, and duty that encompass what various philosophers from Aristotle to Adam Smith counted as virtues. However modern......more
“James Q. Wilson has taken an unfashionable but undeniably crucial question about moral nature and produced a bracing, elegant, carefully researched and closely argued controversy. Everyone should read it.” Michael Crichton
“A lucid, elegant, magisterial and controversial essay.” Publishers Weekly
“With this book James Q. Wilson rescues ‘morality’ from the hype and carping of partisan interests…he provides terms by which people of widely divergent perspectives can address common problems anew. The Moral Sense makes a singular—and for our generation, decisively important—contribution.” James Davison Hunter, author of Culture Wars
“Utterly intriguing…there’s nothing doctrinaire or simplistic in Wilson’s critique of our current wisdoms…Wilson manages to take sociology out of the realm of theory without reducing it to policy. A refreshing and timely work.” Kirkus Reviews
“The masterful synthesis of data from many disciplines makes this an essential title for any academic or public library serving an intellectual clientele.” Library Journal