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Article: Moral Fredom. (Books: character traits).
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 30, 2002
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Moral Freedom.
By Alan Wolfe. Norton, 256 pp., $24.95.
EVERYONE, TO live in this world, has to become something of a moral philosopher," Alan Wolfe states halfway through this book. For the past decade, Wolfe has been diligently studying the moral philosophies of workaday Americans. For his bestselling One Nation After All (1998), Wolfe and his cadre of graduate students and assistant professors polled and interviewed 200 self-described middle-class Americans. Wolfe learned that the only culture wars taking place in the U.S. were in the halls of academe. Middle-class Americans are centrists.
In this sequel, he tries to ascertain what Americans ...