PositiveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)The most interesting sections of Morality draw out the links between seemingly unrelated problems. Anxiety, narcissism and loneliness in the private sphere mirror ills that beset the public domain: demagoguery, uncivil discourse and growing inequality ... But Sacks’s survey of the connection between current social problems and developments in the history of philosophy is less engaging. At times, his voice is drowned out by the host of sources he includes, in what sometimes feels like a frustratingly brief survey of the history of Western thought. The author is much more convincing when he allows his own insights to shape his argument ... The strength of Morality does not reside in Jonathan Sacks’s discussion of political and philosophical theorists, but in those passages in which he speaks to us as rabbi and community leader.
