Overview

Modernity is in its final stages and we should embrace with enthusiasm its overcoming. Moral sociology helps us to realize that we are dominated by so many anonymous powers, and never have freedom and life itself been so threatened. Never has the proposition of virtue, personal and collective, been so undermined of its objective value. This book argues for morality over ethics, for community over individualism, for the desacralization of the state and the destatization of the church, and for the need to equip ourselves with new economic paradigms that incorporate gift into the marketplace. We support denuclearization, the inviolability of the family, and the revalorization of work. We advocate for a skeptical democracy that allows us to see it as a process. We review the dichotomies of limit and strangeness, of self-mastery and dependence, of dear service and poverty, and the need to understand ourselves as children, to recover the levels of humanity that, in our opinion, we are losing. Thus, we propose a conscious and grateful rupture with our recent times to give birth to a new culture in which we can envision a future that is only written within the inner soul of each one of us.

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""You have probably never read sociology like this. It is sociology that distinguishes the good from the bad, structures of virtue from structures of sin. This is sociology that takes theology seriously and posits God as fundamental to human freedom and well-being. Like Augustine reading the Roman Empire in his City of God, Adán reads the decline of modernity as due to injustice, and his perceptive and trenchant analysis and remedy offer hope."" -- William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University ""This work is a catheter into the heart of a man who has been fighting--and thinking--the good fight for decades upon decades. Fearless and powerful, yet winsome and vulnerable, he releases his life blood to us."" --Richard Stith, emeritus professor, Valparaiso University Law School

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José Pérez Adán is professor of sociology and author of some fifty books. Based in Valencia (Spain), he has published, among others: Socioeconomía (Socioeconomics, 1977), La Salud Social (Social Health, 1999), Sociología de la Experiencia Religiosa (Sociology of Religious Experience, 2018), and Repensar la Familia (Rethinking the Family, 2024). He is a founding member of the Ibero-American Association of Communitarianism, AIC, and rector (principal) of the Universidad Libre Internacional de las Américas, ULÍA.

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