Reverence Renewing a Forgotten Virtue

Name: Reverence Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
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ISBN: 9780195157956

ISBN-10: 0195157958

ISBN-13: 9780195157956

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paul Woodruff

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Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior 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. He…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.01" wide x 5.00" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Paul Woodruff is former dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies and currently Darrell K. Royal Professor in Ethics and American Society at the University of Texas at Austin. His latest book is The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness and Rewards .



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Introducing Reverence



Without Reverence



Music and a Funeral: Finding Reverence



Bare Reverence



Ancient Greece: The Way of Being Human



Ancient China: The Way of Power



Reverence Without a Creed



Reverence Across Religions



Relativism



The Reverent Leader



The Silent Teacher



Home


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Index and Glossary of Proper Names