Why Can't We Be Good?

<b>The widely respected social philosopher embarks on his most gripping and broadly appealing work asking the ultimate question of human nature: Why do we repeatedly violate our most deeply held values and beliefs?</b> <p/> After nearly forty years of weighing humanity's deepest dilemmas-working in settings ranging from university and high school classrooms to corporate offices and hospitals-bestselling author philosopher and religious scholar Jacob Needleman presents the most urgent deeply felt and widely accessible work of his career. <p/> In <i>Why Can't We Be Good?</i> Needleman identifies the core problem that therapists and social philosophers fail to see. He depicts the individual human as a being who knows what is good yet who remains mysteriously helpless to innerly adopt the ethical moral and religious ideas that are bequeathed to him.