The Power of Ideals by William Damon & Anne Colby Summary
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In "The Power of Ideals," Stanford professors Damon and Colby challenge biological determinism, revealing how moral excellence shapes our choices. Through stories of Nelson Mandela and Eleanor Roosevelt, they prove what Pamela King called "accessible to all" - the transformative power of truthfulness, humility, and faith.
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When Goodness Becomes a Choice
What drives a person to risk everything for a principle? To stand alone against tyranny, to sacrifice comfort for justice, to choose truth when lies would be easier? These aren't rhetorical questions-they're the puzzles at the heart of human morality. We live in an age increasingly cynical about goodness itself, where researchers reduce compassion to brain chemistry and philosophers dismiss virtue as evolutionary programming. Yet history keeps producing people who shatter these tidy explanations: individuals who transform suffering into purpose, who see injustice and refuse to look away, who build movements from moral conviction alone. The gap between what science says we are and what we sometimes become reveals something profound about human nature-something that can't be measured in laboratory experiments or explained away by genes and culture.
The Poverty of Trolley Problems
Lives That Rewrote the Rules
How Moral Excellence Actually Develops
Truth as the Foundation
The Paradox of Humility and the Power of Faith
The Choice Before Us
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"BeFreed turned my guilty doomscrolling into something that feels productive and inspiring."
"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
"BeFreed replaced my podcast queue. Imagine Spotify for books — that’s it. 🙌"
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