Michael A. Wallach is Professor of Psychology and Lise Wallach is Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Duke University.

"This is a persuasive, scholarly case for the desirability and feasibility of concern for the common good—a fully serious and assessable answer to the 'minimalist' morality decried by culture critics like Lasch and Bloom, that avoids the authoritarian trap, and it offers an example of 'secular humanism' at its best. A psychologically and philosophically imaginative and sound response to the moral and morale disorder of our times." — M. Brewster Smith, University of California at Santa Cruz

• Preface 1. The Minimalist Predicament The Legacy of LiberalismCalls to Abridge AutonomyAnother Way 2. Student Voices on Values Work and EffortPairing Off Living in Society 3. Virtue Desired Greece before Plato and Aristotle Plato and Aristotle Buddha and Confucius 4. The Mystification of Goodness The Good as God's CommandsThe Severing of Virtue from Human DesireThe Philsophers 5. What the Humanist Forgot The Good on Our Genes The Insufficiency of Spontaneous Goodness 6. Dealing with Differences Respect and RelativismCan Ethical Beliefs Be Justified? 7. Some Thoughts for Feminists, Communitarians, and Moral Educators FeminismCommunityMoral Education Notes Index

Michael A. Wallach is Professor of Psychology and Lise Wallach is Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Duke University.

"This is a persuasive, scholarly case for the desirability and feasibility of concern for the common good—a fully serious and assessable answer to the 'minimalist' morality decried by culture critics like Lasch and Bloom, that avoids the authoritarian trap, and it offers an example of 'secular humanism' at its best. A psychologically and philosophically imaginative and sound response to the moral and morale disorder of our times." — M. Brewster Smith, University of California at Santa Cruz

• Preface 1. The Minimalist Predicament The Legacy of LiberalismCalls to Abridge AutonomyAnother Way 2. Student Voices on Values Work and EffortPairing Off Living in Society 3. Virtue Desired Greece before Plato and Aristotle Plato and Aristotle Buddha and Confucius 4. The Mystification of Goodness The Good as God's CommandsThe Severing of Virtue from Human DesireThe Philsophers 5. What the Humanist Forgot The Good on Our Genes The Insufficiency of Spontaneous Goodness 6. Dealing with Differences Respect and RelativismCan Ethical Beliefs Be Justified? 7. Some Thoughts for Feminists, Communitarians, and Moral Educators FeminismCommunityMoral Education Notes Index