Mark Matousek, best selling author of “When You’re Falling,
Dive,” “The Boy He Left Behind,” and “Sex Death Enlightenment,”
presents in his latest book; Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good,
an inspiring and thought-provoking examination of what makes us
good (and evil) and provides insights to the question – How
ought we to live? This book suggests that emotions not logic
enable morality, and delivers a thoroughly researched and
beautifully written analyses on what Matousek terms our five
primary moral foundations or moral receptors; innate principles
or universal receptors that guide our moral judgments and factor
into how we respond/react to events in our lives; both good and
evil. The five principles which divide the book into a literary
symphony of five parts are: 1) Harm and Care – we are sensitive
to pain (ours and others), we have keen emotions around threats
and nurturing, and this factors into our acts of kindness, and
our propensity for acts of emotional support and protection. 2)
Justice and Fairnes