{"product_id":"the-good-life-the-moral-individual-in-an-antimoral-world","title":"The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Good Life is an engaging  reasoned look at American values: how the angry political right hijacks and corrupts ideas about morality  how the fringe political left abandons the moral outlook  and how antimoralism from many sources results in cruelty  harsh law  dangerous irrationality  corrupt religion  greed  and gross inequality  and undermines American democracy. Cheryl Mendelson reminds us how far these trends have taken us from our roots  and how a humane democracy  with its freedoms  depends on the moral sense of its citizens.  Medelson gives clear-sighted descriptions  free of ideology  of what morality really is  tracing it to its psychological roots  and of the antimoralism behind familiar cultural tics like authoritarianism  the culture of \"cool \" irrationalist movements in politics and religion  and the sterility of academic attempts to understand the moral life. Along the way  she gives a clear  persuasive explanation of why moral truth exists and why believing this doesnt force us to be dogmatic and judgmental. Mendelsons book is a bracing polemic  but it is also inspiring and  with its eye-opening analysis of the moral mentality  an education in what it means to be moral in an antimoral world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946056970293,"sku":"ByrdShop_1608198316","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781608198313.jpg?v=1769921321","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-good-life-the-moral-individual-in-an-antimoral-world","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}