The Code of Man: Love Courage Pride Family Country"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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... hero Aeneas must renounce his passion for Dido , Queen of Carthage , in order to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome . She mounts her own funeral pyre and stabs herself as Aeneas watches the rising flames from his departing ship ...
... hero and the goddess extolled by Homer . Finally , and not surprisingly , sites in the ancient world later associated with the Virgin Mary - for in- stance , Ephesus in Turkey , where she is said to have lived out her final days - were ...
... hero in his own right of the Telemacheiad , the first five books of Homer's Odyssey . The capstone of Emile's education is his passion for his future wife , Sophy . In Sophy he sees the virtues that he wants to cultivate in himself ...
... hero , and once she meets Emile , she believes she may have found him . Rousseau brings us full circle because he attempts a return to the Ladder of Love on the basis of modern egalitarianism . Not everyone ap- proved of the attempt ...
... hero from the pages of Homer , but in Emile she gets a boy who is very much a product of the modern age . Before in ... heroes of antiquity . But he also practices a trade , and Jean - Jacques has taught him to be frugal . He will not ...
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