The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life Free Audiobook Download by David Brooks

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life is David Brooks's second book on the subject of living a moral life. This audiobook synopsis will give you a quick overview of this book.

Written by David Brooks, the book is a philosophical look at the question of what it means to be good. The author poses this question after reflecting on his life, career, and personal successes in contrast with his countless friends who had to struggle and work much harder than he did to make any progress. David Brooks traces the history of morality and philosophy through nine philosophers including Augustine, Plato, Descartes, Hobbes, Kierkegaard, and Kant. Brooks also addresses the role moral neutrality plays as well as religion in determining how we act morally. The audiobook download is narrated by Arthur Morey.

In order to understand the meaning of a moral life, one must understand what morality is. One explanation suggests that morality is the desire to do good for other people. Others say it is about doing something for others because it will make you feel better about yourself. Morality does not always have to be about being kind; sometimes it has to do with self-defence and justice, according to David Brooks's book, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life.

What are the first and second mountain in David Brooks’ The Second Mountain? According to David Brooks, the first mountain is the mountain of moral relativism, which is where people’s relationships to society and others become governed by personal interests. The second mountain is the question of what makes a person good.

The Second Mountain is a remarkable book, written by David Brooks - an American writer and journalist. The book discusses the need for individuals to find a moral compass through different historical figures such as Buddha, Confucius, and Jesus Christ. In the audiobook of his book, he speaks very eloquently about the relationship between morality and religion.

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life is the story of "a quest…for a moral life" which follows the author's search for his moral identity after he has been divorced and is coping with the loss of his son. In contrast to David Brooks' previous book, Bobos in Paradise, this book describes modern society as being morally empty with increasing amounts of consumerism and self-indulgence.