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Introduction -- Finding meaning in modern times: An overview -- I. Love, family, and friendship: Some reflections on modern culture -- The end of courtship -- The higher sex education: Help from an old story (with Amy Kass) -- Virtually intimate: Is the Internet good for love and friendship? -- What's your name? (with Amy Kass) -- II. Human excellence and human dignity: Real and distorted -- Ageless bodies, happy souls: Biotechnology and the pursuit of happiness -- Human dignity: What it is and why it matters -- For the love of the game: The dignity of sport (with Eric Cohen) -- A dignified death and its enemies: Why doctors must not kill -- A more perfect human: The promise and peril of modern science -- III. In search of wisdom: Learning, teaching, and truth -- The aims of liberal education: On seeking truth -- Looking for an honest man: The case of humanities -- Science, religion, and the human future -- IV. The aspirations of humankind: Athens, Jerusalem, Gettysburg -- Human flourishing and human excellence: The truth(s) of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ten Commandments -- The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln's refounding of the nation.;Most American young people, li

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Leon R. Kass
Publisher
Encounter Books
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781594039416
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Political Science, Religion
Rating
4.6 / 5 (59 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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