Description: Virtue has acquired a bad name, says Wilson, but it is nevertheless what we are referring to when we discuss a persons character, such as whether someone is kind or loyal. Although we may disguise the language of morality as a language of personality, it is still, he says, the language of virtue and vice.
Brief description:
James Q. Wilson is James Collins professor of management and public policy at UCLA. Winner of the 1990, James Madison Award of the American Political Science Association, he is also the author of Moral Judgement.
Review Quotes:
"James Q. Wilson has taken an unfashionable but undeniably crucial question about moral nature and produced a bracing, elegant, carefully researched and closely argued controversy. Everyone should read it."
-- "Michael Crichton"