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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... society at large through graduates who go on to become teach- ers , social workers , and journalists . As we saw in the discussion of the Just Say Yes Web site , graduates of these programs may believe they have an ethical mission to ...
... society , one could argue that statesmanship may no longer call for the pride of a Caesar or even a Churchill . As I will make plain in later chapters , I believe these arguments against courage and pride are grossly exaggerated , if ...
... society . His natural goodness and simplicity are forti- fied by an education in the great Greek and Roman classics , stressing manly valor , purity , moderation , simplicity , and modesty . One of the models Jean - Jacques provides for ...
... society . People need a motive to be good citizens the private satisfactions of family life . For her part , Sophy has always hoped to meet a young man like Telemachus , the stouthearted and steadfast son of Odysseus in Homer's epic ...
... society and fulfilling his duties as a citizen , husband , and fa- ther through his romantic passion for Sophy . The material rewards of modern individualism are not enough , either for a satisfying personal life or for a healthy ...
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