Summary
NOT that long ago, when you mentioned the word "morality", the left reached for its revolver. Morality was an inherently suspect discourse, used by ruling classes to con the dispossessed into accepting their lot. Latterly, bourgeois morality was derided by the children of the sixties as a shackle to the human spirit. Moral codes were only there to be broken.
But times change. The materialism of the left has turned out to be a dead end. Suddenly everyone is talking about the "progress paradox" - the fact that the rise in GDP has failed to yield a corresponding dividend in happiness and well-being - a kind of spiritual impoverishment amid plenty.See the full content of this document
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Who Will Fill the Spiritual Gap in This Secular Age?
There's just something missing. And thinkers on the left are turning to the moral dimension to fill the gap. Julia Neuberger's new book, The Moral State We're In, laments the moral bankruptcy of our political culture. As if in response comes a tract from the Labour minister, Douglas Alexander, entitled Telling it like ...
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