Human Goodness
Tuan, Yi-Fu
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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. In a refreshing antidote to skeptical times, he writes of ordinary human courtesies, as simple as busing your dishes after eating, that make society functional and livable. And he writes of extraordinary courage and inventiveness under the weight of adversity and evil. He considers the impact of communal goodness over time, and his sketches of six very different individuals—Confucius, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Keats, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Simone Weil—confirm that there are human lives that can encourage and lead us to our better selves.
BOOK REVIEWS
“Yi-Fu Tuan has produced a series of profiles that confirm his core assertion: humanity in the aggregate may be dispiriting, but in certain human lives a goodness prevails that has the power to instruct, inspire, and confound. In time of war, his discussion of physical and moral courage is especially pertinent.”—William Howarth, Princeton University, author of Walking with Thoreau
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0299226700
ISBN(13-digit): 9780299226701
Dewey Decimal: 170/.44
Library of Congress: 2007040158
Book Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 232
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