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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... give men an ex- cuse to act on their own basest impulses . Women say they're sexual agents , too , so why not give them what they want ? After thirty years of relentless behavior modification , the grand result is that young men in ...
... give him the strongest possible motive to overcome his own vices in order to prove himself worthy of her . His erotic longing provides him with a mirror in which he can view himself through his beloved's eyes , seeing his own ...
... give up our chance for salvation and join him in Hell . In the paintings of Sassetta , that most Augustinian of artists , the wise and majestic goddesses like Aphrodite and Athena so admired by the an- cients are reduced to the image of ...
... gives him the strongest possible motive to overcome them . When the woman returns his love , a man's imperfections seem to vanish , reemerging as virtues : Love causes a rough and uncouth man to be distinguished for his hand- someness ...
... gives him the strongest motive to aim for goodness . Without the softening influence of a woman , a man's life would be ... give them some verbal ammunition for the ever - increasing number of horny young whippersnappers who surround us ...
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