Cultural Resources
Ethics/Morality
Articles/Op-eds/Essays
A Moral America. “Imagine a moral America. If you live elsewhere, imagine the same for your country. In this moral America, we Americans respect everyone’s equal value and affirm equal rights and opportunities for everyone — a society in which we meet as free and equal individuals, free of oppressive labels and hierarchies. We acknowledge our most important belief: Everyone is created equal and entitled to fairness throughout the course of their life — the right to participate in society as an equal.” (read more)
Are We All in This Together?, Michael J. Sandel. “The pandemic has helpfully scrambled how we value everyone’s economic and social roles.”
Jacqueline Novogratz: Towards a Moral Revolution, On Being with Krista Tippett. “Moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: What are politics for? What is an economy for? …Novogratz is an innovator in creative, human-centered capitalism. She has described her recent book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, as a love letter to the next generation.”
Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?, Firmin DeBrabander
Books
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, Jacqueline Novogratz. "An instant classic." —Arianna Huffington. "Will inspire people from across the political spectrum." —Jonathan Haidt An essential shortlist of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good in this world.
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD. “A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more” (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), “Blueprint shows why evolution has placed us on a humane path — and how we are united by our common humanity.”
Quotes
“The duty of a man is to be useful to his fellow-men; if possible, to be useful to many of them; failing this, to be useful to a few; failing this, to be useful to his neighbours, and, failing them, to himself: for when he helps others, he advances the general interests of mankind. Just as he who makes himself a worse man does harm not only to himself but to all those to whom he might have done good if he had made himself a better one, so he who deserves well of himself does good to others by the very fact that he is preparing what will be of service to them.”
― Seneca, Dialogues