Leading a worthy life finding meaning in modern 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 lon...
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New York :
Encounter Books,
2020.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Finding meaning in modern times: An overview
- I. Love, family, and friendship: Some reflections on modern culture
- The end of courtship
- The higher sex education: Help from an old story (with Amy Kass)
- Virtually intimate: Is the Internet good for love and friendship?
- What's your name? (with Amy Kass)
- II. Human excellence and human dignity: Real and distorted
- Ageless bodies, happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness
- Human dignity: What it is and why it matters
- For the love of the game: The dignity of sport (with Eric Cohen)
- A dignified death and its enemies: Why doctors must not kill
- A more perfect human: The promise and peril of modern science
- III. In search of wisdom: Learning, teaching, and truth
- The aims of liberal education: On seeking truth
- Looking for an honest man: The case of humanities
- Science, religion, and the human future
- IV. The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg
- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
- The Ten Commandments
- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation.
