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Why it's OK to mind your own business
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- Book Synopsis
- Every year, millions of students in the United States and around the world graduate from high school and college. Commencement speakers-often distilling the hopes of parents and four years of messaging from educators-tell graduates that they must do something grand, ambitious, or far-reaching. Change the world. Disrupt the status quo. Every problem in the world is your problem, awaiting your solutions.This book is an antidote to that advice. It provides a clear-eyed assessment of three types of people who tend to believe and promote a commencement speaker's view of the world: the moralizer, who imposes unnecessary social costs by inappropriately enforcing morality; the busybody, who thinks the stranger and close friend merit equal shares of our benevolent attention; and the pure hearted, who equates acting with good intentions with just outcomes. The book also provides a bold defense of living an ordinary life by putting down roots, creating a good home, and living in solitude. A quiet, peaceful life can be generous and noble. It's OK to mind your own business.
- About The Author
- Justin Tosi is Associate Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. With Brandon Warmke, he is the author of Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (Oxford UP, 2020).Brandon Warmke is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida. With Justin Tosi, he is the author of Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (Oxford UP, 2020).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780367141745
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (30 November 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 172
- Weight
- 206 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 197 x 15 mm
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