Human goodness / / Yi- fu Tuan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812865303321
• Autore: Tuan Yi-fu <1930->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9786612270444; 1-282-27044-3; 0-299-22673-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 170/.44
• Soggetti: Virtue; Conduct of life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Vignettes -- Good" as Aesthetic-Moral Appreciation -- Decency and Wholesomeness -- Good Manners -- Good Manners Beget Good Society -- Good and Happy Society: Two Pictures -- Beyond Good Manners: Going the Extra Mile -- Indifference to Self-Image -- Unworldliness -- Selflessness -- Gratitude and Obligation -- Humility and Pride -- Generosity -- Respect for Animals -- Caring for and Respecting People -- Courage and Heroism -- Moral Courage -- Doing Good in the Midst of Evil -- The Trocmés of Le Chambon -- Good, Evil, and Stupidity -- Good Individuals -- Confucius (ca. 551-479 BCE) -- Socrates (ca. 469-399 BCE) -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- John Keats (1795-1821) -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) -- Simone Weil (1909-1943) -- Reflections -- Dark Background -- Gray Background -- Points of Light -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds. Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and enormously exciting.