Title: Morality – Nature’s Crowning Achievement: The Making of
Our Moral Compass
Author: Bill Wilson
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
ISBN: 978-1728376608
Pages: 130
Genre: Non-Fiction / Cognitive Science
Reviewer: Ephantus M.
Pacific Book Review
In a world where life’s intricacies are progressively endangering our safety, welfare, and
even existence, we must carefully consider developing our own personal moral
compass in order to effectively navigate through. This is the key message in author Bill
Wilson’s revolutionary book, Morality- Nature’s Crowning Achievement: The Making of
Our Moral Compass.
Everyone of us has a moral compass that must be continually adjusted and fostered
throughout our lives by taking into account the consequences of both our own and other
people’s actions. Wilson believes developing our moral sensitivity is essential because
only then will we be able to maintain the kind of vigilant watchfulness which will protect
our freedoms and morality even as the world goes fully into the era of artificial
intelligence, where computers will be affecting practically every part of our lives.
Reflecting on events, issues, puzzles, and developments around us can also help our
moral sense develop and become more refined over time. Therefore, our best options
are to be compassionate, take life as it is, and cling to love no matter what, as stated by
the author in these lines: “…for without love deep within our beings, there can be no
light, no flourishing, at all.”
The author has included famous tales, poetry, and musical verses in this book which
have influenced the moral compass of countless numbers of individuals worldwide.
They include “The First Letter of St. John in the New Testament”, “Romeo and Juliet,”
“The Merchant of Venice, ” and “The High-Ranking Religious Professional and the
Looked-Down-Upon Tax Collector, at Prayer” among others. At the conclusion of the
book is a wonderful narrative for younger readers which tells the tale of Jimbo the
elephant and Conché the bird. The story’s main themes are love, forgiveness, hope,
patience, and self-control.
Morality- Nature’s Crowning Achievement: The Making of Our Moral Compass,which
draws upon the author’s sixty years of life experience, is a worthwhile book that I
wholeheartedly recommend to readers of all ages. It is powerful, reliable, and
innovative, and anybody who looks at it will undoubtedly feel its influence.
