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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... pleasures of contemplation - for St. Augustine it is an intolerable mark of human pride , arrogance , and folly to believe that human nature is ca- pable of such an ascent to transcendence on its own . No perfection is possible for man ...
... pleasures are thoroughly despicable and lead only to perdition . But , as a fallen mortal tainted by the original sin of Eve , St. Augustine not only can't achieve chastity but worries that even aiming for it might in itself be a ...
... pleasures will never know what it means to love , because he lacks the capacity for loyalty to a single beloved : An excess of passion is a bar to love , because there are men who are slaves to such passionate desire that they cannot be ...
... pleasure alone . But , in contrast with the demands of chivalry and its ideal of chastity for both men and women , there's nothing wrong with enjoying those sensual de- lights to the fullest ... pleasures in themselves 24 THE CODE OF MAN.
... pleasures in themselves as long as you keep them in their proper place , subordinated to a man's more se- rious aspirations for honorable achievement and cultivation . Let's look a little more closely at The Book of the Courtier ...
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