Volume 40, Number 15 · September 23, 1993
Reasons of the Heart
By Alan Ryan
The Moral Sense
by James Q. Wilson
Free Press, 313 pp., $22.95
James Wilson's new book is astonishingly ambitious and at the same time disarmingly restrained. Wilson's aim is nothing less than to rehabilitate our everyday moral intuitions—at risk, says Wilson, from a motley array of philosophers, sociologists, and displaced Parisian intellectuals. But Wilson aims to do it without pushing any particular policy agenda:
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