Of Vice And Men.(Review) From: Policy Review | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2001 Heritage Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

JOEL SCHWARTZ. Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America's Urban Poor, 1 825-2000. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS. 354 PAGES. $39.95

No LESS AN authority than N Hegel warns, "Talk about virtue ... borders on empty rhetoric." Why? Because in a well-organized society, institutions effortlessly guide each citizen's behavior such that "in order to be virtuous ... he has simply to follow the well-known and explicit rules of his own situation. In such a society, virtue is "actualized," and there is no need to exhort citizens with "argumentative and expository talk."

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