Leading Lives That Matter compiles a wide range of texts--from ancient and contemporary literature, social commentary, and philosophy--related to questions of vital interest for those who are trying to decide What to do with their Lives and What kind of human beings they hope to become.
Three new guiding questions have also been added: To whom and to What Should I listen as I decide What work to do? With whom and for whom shall I live? What are my obligations to future human and other life?.
This second edition includes forty-seven new readings from a diverse array of writers, including Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Levertov, Malcolm Gladwell, Julia Alvarez, Alice Walker, Martin Luther King Jr., Pope Francis, and Chung Tzu.
Leading Lives That Matter invites readers into arguments That have persisted for generations about What we human beings Should do and who we Should be.
Each chapter\'s texts provide a variety of insights and approaches to be considered in addressing the question, arranged and introduced in ways That prompt deeper reflection.
Six guiding questions shape the chapters That contain the majority of the texts.
Mark Schwehn and Dorothy Bass identify four vocabularies typically used in discussions of the meaning of life choices: authenticity, virtue, exemplarity, and vocation.
This book draws upon both religious and secular wisdom, bringing these sources into conversation with one another.
Leading Lives That Matter compiles a wide range of texts--from ancient and contemporary literature, social commentary, and philosophy--related to questions of vital interest for those who are trying to decide What to do with their Lives and What kind of human beings they hope to become
