The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World (2017) is a book by Michael Ignatieff. Ignatieff travels from Los Angeles to Fukushima to Myanmar and South Africa to explore everyday moral values such as trust, tolerance and resilience that people practice across cultures. He asks how those local virtues survive violence, mass migration and sharp inequality without relying on abstract human-rights talk alone.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World" by Michael Ignatieff, a philosopher and former Canadian politician. Ignatieff asks a simple question, is globalization bringing us together or tearing us apart? He answers it by taking us around the world from Bosnia to Brazil, South Africa to Myanmar. The result is a fascinating and deeply engaging book.”