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Reverence : renewing a forgotten virtue / / Paul Woodruff



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Autore: Woodruff Paul <1943-2023.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reverence : renewing a forgotten virtue / / Paul Woodruff Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
Disciplina: 170
Soggetto topico: Honor
Respect
Note generali: Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-243) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Text Credits; 1 Introducing Reverence; 2 Without Reverence; 3 Music and a Funeral: Finding Reverence; 4 Bare Reverence; 5 Ancient Greece: The Way of Being Human; 6 Ancient China: The Way of Power; 7 Reverence Without a Creed; 8 Reverence Across Religions; 9 Relativism; 10 The Reverent Leader; 11 The Silent Teacher; 12 Home; Notes; Works Cited; Index and Glossary of Proper Names
Sommario/riassunto: Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behaviour and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance of the forgotten virtue of reverence, and how awe for things greater than oneself can - indeed must - be a touchstone for other virtues like respect, humility, and charity. Ranging widely over diverse cultural terrain - from Philip Larkin to ancient Greek poetry, from modern politics to Chinese philosophy - Woodruff shows how absolutely essential reverence is to a well-functioning society.
Titolo autorizzato: Reverence  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-773155-4
1-280-53224-6
9786610532247
0-19-803371-0
0-19-530305-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910957007403321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.