Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment

By Anne Colby

Book Overview

Aims to provide a psychological account of 23 contemporary moral exemplars who have provided moral leadership in communities across the United States. Typically, these people have worked for the poor, fought for civil rights, and generally dedicated their lives to the good of others.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029063558
• ISBN13: 9780029063552
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Free Pr
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 6.4" x 1.3"

Customer Reviews

Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment

The lives of twenty-three altruistic Americans are explored in this remarkable book. Beliefs, motivations, and actions are examined and celebrated. An important contribution to education, psychology, and sociology.

A classic in the field

Colby and Damon have authored a classic in the field of Moral development. They tell the stories of many "moral exemplars" and draw from those stories a theory of moral development in adulthood. Carol Gilligan was one of the first psychologists to present evidence that the development of the self was central to moral thought and action (though she borrowed the idea from Freud). Colby and Damon here present useful qualitative data to make this point strongly. Of course retrospective data like this is not conclusive, but it is a good piece of work to inspire more detailed data collection in the future. This work is not only a strong contribution to the psychology of moral reasoning, it is a readable book of inspirational tales of true moral exemplars.