Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life

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humanebeings, May 6, 2009 (view all comments by humanebeings)
With all the cruelty, injustice, destruction, violence, oppression, and exploitation in the world, it can be challenging to feel hopeful and powerful enough to help create true positive change. But according to Zoe Weil, in her book, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life, we all have the power to support and nurture a world of compassion, sustainability, kindness, justice and peace, both through our daily choices, and through helping transform systems.

In Most Good, Least Harm, Weil introduces the MOGO Principle (MOGO stands for most good), which focuses on our doing the most good and least harm for all: ourselves, other people, animals and the planet. According to Weil: “When we do the most good and the least harm through our daily choices, our acts of citizenship, our communities, our work, our volunteerism, and our interactions, we create inner and outer peace.”

Weil’s book doesn’t try to tell us what to think or believe, nor does it offer a prescription of 50 simple things we have to do to save the world. She doesn’t pretend that major change is easy or simple, or that there is one right answer (or even that she has all the answers). Weil asserts that change on both a personal and systemic level is essential to creating a humane world. She emphasizes that no one is perfect, and that pursuing a MOGO life to the best of our ability will bring inner peace to us and a more humane world to everyone. Additionally, unlike many books focused on “green” or sustainable choices, Weil does not exclude animals as individuals from the MOGO circle of concern, nor does she set up false either/or dichotomies. She emphasizes the importance of our relationships with all beings and insists that we look for both/and solutions that benefit everyone.

Weil’s book is filled with questions for us to ask ourselves, encouraging us to really pay attention to the impact of our choices and to analyze how well our lives reflect the message we want it to express. Most Good, Least Harm is also filled with stories of people trying to live MOGO lives, which I found hopeful and inspiring.

Most Good, Least Harm will lead you on an incredibly empowering, inspiring, heartening and joyful experience and will give you the tools and inspiration to discover greater inner peace, as well as to help create a peaceful, compassionate, sustainable world for all.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9781135956103

Subtitle:

A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life

Publisher:

Beyond Words Publishing

Author:

Weil, Zoe

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

224

Dimensions:

8.20x5.40x.60 in. .45 lbs.