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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... means we have to define the norm in terms of the extreme . Young people have to be taught that there's no such thing as male or fe- male behavior by nature , and this can be done by exposing them to the more idiosyncratic excesses of ...
... meaning of manliness still lies in the sphere of romantic relationships . The validity of the traditional teachings about manly virtue is somewhat less clear in other spheres of contemporary living . One could argue , for instance ...
... meaning of manliness , from Plato's Symposium to Castiglione's Book of the Courtier , from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Mozart's Marriage of Figaro . A man's love for a woman can give him the strongest possible motive to overcome ...
... mean by " ro- mance ” —no idealistic fervor about serving a lady and improving one's own character by proving one's devotion to her . When Ovid writes about adultery , it sounds like something from the swinging suburbs of Cheever or ...
... means you shouldn't have sex all the time , but by the same token you can still have a fair amount of it . There's nothing wrong with sex in itself . It's only a drawback when it distracts you from the more serious pursuits of a ...
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