Leading Lives that Matter: What We Should Do and who We Should beMark R. Schwehn, Dorothy C. Bass Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006 - 545 páginas "Leading Lives That Matter" draws together a wide range of texts -- including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy -- offering challenge and insight to those who are thinking about what to do with their lives. Instead of giving prescriptive advice, Mark Schwehn and Dorothy Bass approach the subject of vocation as an ongoing conversation. They include in this conversation some of the Western tradition's best writings on human life -- its meaning, purpose, and significance -- ranging from ancient Greek poetry to contemporary fiction. Including Leo Tolstoy's novella "The Death of Ivan Ilych" as an extended epilogue, this volume will help readers clarify and deepen how they think about their own lives. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Prologue | 9 |
Albert Schweitzer I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor | 29 |
Authenticity | 40 |
Charles Taylor from The Ethics of Authenticity | 49 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Solitude of Self | 59 |
Aristotle from Nicomachean Ethics | 65 |
Theodore Roosevelt The Vigor of Life | 83 |
Bonnie MillerMcLemore Generativity Crises of My Own | 263 |
Arlie Russell Hochschild Theres No Place Like Work | 272 |
Abigail Zuger M D Defining a Doctor | 278 |
King Hussein and Noa Ben ArtziPelossof Two Eulogies | 294 |
William Butler Yeats The Choice | 302 |
Martha Nussbaum interviewed by Bill Moyers | 308 |
1430 The Parable of the Talents | 317 |
James Baldwin Sonnys Blues | 330 |
2028 | 89 |
Badcock Choosing | 101 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Place of Responsibility | 107 |
Are Some Lives More Significant Than Others? | 117 |
S Lewis Learning in WarTime | 124 |
The Martyrdom of Perpetua | 144 |
Dorothy Day from Therese | 153 |
Three Biographical Sketches | 166 |
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | 175 |
Russell Muirhead from Just Work | 188 |
Robert Frost Two Tramps in Mud Time | 196 |
Abraham Joshua Heschel from The Sabbath | 216 |
William Wordsworth The World Is Too Much with Us | 222 |
Gilbert Meilaender Friendship and Vocation | 229 |
Is a Balanced Life Possible | 245 |
Robert Wuthnow The Changing Nature of Work in | 255 |
To Whom Should I Listen? | 359 |
Amy Tan Two Kinds | 370 |
with Alex Haley from The Autobiography of Malcolm X | 381 |
Vincent Harding I Hear Them Calling | 395 |
Willa Cather The Ancient People | 404 |
Garret Keizer from A Dresser of Sycamore Trees | 413 |
William Ernest Henley Invictus | 434 |
The Book of Jonah | 440 |
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Weddings | 447 |
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken | 458 |
Wendell Berry from Jayber Crow | 467 |
Michael T Kaufman Robert McG Thomas | 481 |
Epilogue | 487 |
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Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be Mark R. Schwen,Dorothy C. Bass Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
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