The Code of Man: Love Courage Pride Family CountryHarper Collins, 09/06/2009 - 304 páginas "In many ways," Waller R. Newell writes, "young men today are in deep spiritual trouble. But they are also yearning for a way back to the noblest ideals of American manhood." The Code of Man represents a deep and thought-provoking effort to help guide contemporary men back to those ideals, as embodied in what Newell calls the five paths to manliness: love, courage, pride, family, and country. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he argues, we have grown so concerned about the roles of sex and violence in our society that we have forgotten the older virtues: romance and eros, courage and patriotism, the blend of love and bravery it takes to raise a family. In The Code of Man, he exhorts us to look to the traditional virtues of the past for inspiration. Contrasting the time-honored lessons of traditional voices -- Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln, Jane Austen and Teddy Roosevelt -- with the chaotic signals emanating from sources like Eminem, video games like Thrill Kill, and Goth culture, Newell illustrates how we have come to associate courage with violence, "transgression" with wisdom. Most disturbing, he argues, the essential triumph of Western culture may have left us with a building reserve of untapped aggressive energy, and no consensus about how to channel it -- a situation that threatens to weaken us at the core. Seamlessly weaving together literary references from a diverse body of sources, Waller Newell offers an open-eyed look at what it means to be a man in America today, and a clarion call to recapture our traditions if we are to preserve our character as a society ... and avoid catastrophe. |
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... ancients . The fable of Orpheus and Eurydice evokes a love between man and woman so strong that it lasts beyond the ... ancient world , female deities were often depicted as sources of wisdom for men about the mysteries of nature and ...
... ancient literature . It's reflected in Odysseus's special partnership with Athena , the Goddess of Wisdom , who teaches him that victories over the trials and dangers of a mortal's life are won more often through clever reasoning ...
... ancient litera- ture from exploring a purely human obsession between a man and a woman as a theme for serious moral or psychological reflection . That , as I say , is a more modern , Romantic kind of love . As we'll see at greater ...
... ancients ) the flowering of our natures but a constant spiritual struggle against na- tures that are hopelessly tainted with sin . Only in a devotion to Mary is there any relaxation of these drastic extremes , any respite 18 THE CODE OF ...
... ancient sculpture . She is not a goddess but a real mother , cradling her son's broken body after it's been taken down from the cross . Overcome with grief and pity , she holds him in her lap like a baby , and at that moment becomes ...
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