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Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times
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- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- ISBN
- 9781641770989
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Encounter Books
ISBN-10
1641770988
ISBN-13
9781641770989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038459363
Product Key Features
Book Title
Leading a Worthy Life : Finding Meaning in Modern Times
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ethics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Essays
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Religion, Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Leon Kass's new book is a gift so great that one feels any expression of thanks to be inadequate. Kass deals with fundamental subjects with an extraordinary combination of grace and depth; he shows us how a life of penetrating questioning can lead to a deep and powerful understanding of the human things. William Kristol As a scientist, humanist and teacher of the young, Leon Kass has studied the ills of late 20th century American culture as closely as anyone, never failing to ask the big questions: what is a worthy life and how can one live it? In these sobering but hopeful essays, Kass ponders the challenges and the prospects for finding meaning in family life, work, public service and the quest for knowledge under present circumstances. Each essay is a treasure, to read, ponder, and read again. Mary Ann Glendon Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University Leon Kass presents the attractions of morality in subtle detail and graceful prose. His essays, most of them done with his late wife Amy Kass, seek to grasp what is permanent rather than charge or drift into restless, unmeaning change. Neither grouch nor censor, Kass earns his readers' respect for argument, utility, and wisdom. Harvey Mansfield Professor of Government, Harvard Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Dewey Decimal
170
Synopsis
Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea--regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it's all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our "interesting time" paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question "How to live?" suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial--and still available--aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times., Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea-regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it's all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our "interesting time" paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question "How to live?" suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial-and still available-aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times., Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are
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