Like any good teacher, he understands that ethical matters are individual matters, that an ethical society is only the sum of its ethical citizens.
The Washington Post
September 12, 1999
ETHICS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM
By the Dalai Lama
Riverhead. 320 pp. $24.95
Reviewed by Jack Shoemaker
Now we've arrived at the end of the century, where crime, moral chaos, and politics driven by the often hollow sophistications of sociology and psychology all alert us to the breakdown of too many previous assumptions, particularly the coming apart of what might be called our ethical agreements with one another. Late capitalism, in apparent triumph, seems to encourage self-interest over any lingering sense of a commonwealth.
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