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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Some would say we are a nation in crisis. Our leaders are on trial, our teenagers are turning to violence and drugs, and families are splintering around us. Yet, according to Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, one cannot lose hope. The solution lies not within our governments, schools, or symbols of popular culture, but rather within ourselves, our families and our faith. President Hinckley stresses the...
2) The virtues
Author
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
University life only works alongside the cultivation of virtue. The intellectual life depends on the moral life. Without virtue we cannot sustain the practices necessary for advanced learning. In fact, without virtue, it's hard to see what the purpose of the university is. Learning begins with love (for the truth). If we don't have that, it's hard to know why we would bother with education at all.
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022, ©2018.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling...
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
[2000.]
Language
English
Description
Here are not only the Tortoise and the Hare, and the Grasshopper and the Ant, but dozens more of the delightful creatures that have been entertaining and instructing people for thousands of years. The storyteller Aesop lived in ancient Greece, far away from us in time and distance. But his clever little stories have as much meaning for us today as they did when he first told them so long ago.
5) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...
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