{"product_id":"moral-vices-and-virtues-mason-carter-9798245536224","title":"Moral Vices and Virtues: An Ethics of Mutual Aid: Character, Cooperation, and the Moral Cost of Hierarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoral Vices and Virtues: An Ethics of Mutual Aid\u003c\/b\u003e offers a radical rethinking of ethics grounded in evolutionary biology, cooperation, and anarchist social theory. Drawing on the work of Peter Kropotkin and Murray Bookchin, this book argues that morality does not arise from command, law, or hierarchy, but from mutual aid-the everyday practices through which human beings live together without domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than judging others, this book turns ethics inward. It examines moral vices such as hubris, envy, cruelty, authoritarianism, greed, and intellectual arrogance as stable dispositions that weaken cooperation and sustain hierarchy. In contrast, moral virtues are understood as character traits that nurture solidarity, reciprocity, and equality of dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as a guide for ethical self-reflection and character formation, \u003ci\u003eMoral Vices and Virtues\u003c\/i\u003e treats ethics as a social practice rooted in lived relations, not abstract rules. It is an invitation to cultivate cooperation in daily life-and to understand moral development as the art of living together without domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mason Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798245536224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d","brand":"Mason Carter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454359253247,"sku":"9798245536224","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b79290a9-6489-4b37-be43-b5232df54f48.jpg?v=1777305744","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moral-vices-and-virtues-mason-carter-9798245536224","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}