2018
What is just? What is right? What is wrong? What purposes, and what virtues, are worth pursuing? How can we weigh answers to these questions without lapsing into “That’s only your opinion”? In the tradition of C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, Dennis Danielson re-invokes Lewis’s use of the Tao–borrowed from Eastern philosophy–as shorthand for the transcultural fund of ultimate postulates that form the very ground of moral judgment, codes of ethics, and standards of right and wrong. This book is a fresh twenty-first-century call for the virtuous cultivation of “humans with hearts,” for a rejection of moral nihilism, and for a life-affirming embrace of moral realism founded in the Tao.
“Dennis Danielson’s message in The Tao of Right and Wrong needs to be urgently heeded. … This book should be on every teacher’s reading list.” —Margaret Somerville, Professor of Bioethics, University of Notre Dame Australia
“The Tao of Right and Wrong is a remarkably compressed and equally lucid exposition of the truths that really count. … The debate in which this book engages is, in the full sense of the term, a fundamental one.” —Rex Murphy, Commentator for The National Post and formerly for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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