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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... Morality , and Citizenship at the Institute of United States Studies , the University of London . I would like to thank the Institute and its director , Gary McDowell , for the invitation to speak and for their hospitality dur- ing my ...
... moral revolution , since so little attention has been paid to it in the last thirty years . This is the proposition that erotic passion and inti- macy are fully satisfying only when men and women strive to exercise their capacities for ...
... morality , free from any sexual restraints . What begins as a well - intentioned and even high - minded attempt in the universities to free students from stereotypes and intolerance toward minority groups often translates in the wider ...
... moral disavowal . Its sole purpose is to expose how uptight the boy's father is about his son's older lover , with the heavy implication that he should lighten up and voluntarily deliver his underage son over to the jaded Brian . Large ...
... moral constraint through a crude physical simulacrum for the ethical and religious teachings often not available from school and family . Lest my prognoses seem too bleak , let me add at this point that a countermovement has been under ...
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