Tag Archives: David Brooks

ISIS Rapists

Posted on August 29, 2015 by PaulVK

David Brooks This wasn’t supposed to happen in the 21st century. Western experts have stared the thing in the face, trying to figure out the cause and significance of the moral disaster we are witnessing. President Obama has said that … Continue reading →

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The Structure of Gratitude

Posted on July 29, 2015 by PaulVK

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The Road to Character, Chapter 10, The Big Me, and Summary

Posted on May 28, 2015 by PaulVK

Handing This In Late I finished reading this book right before a week of vacation, wrote half of what I wanted to write on chapter 10, but then didn’t pick up this task again until now. I’ve listened to chapter … Continue reading →

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Not Slaves to Our Passions, Not Slaves to the Law, But Children of God

Posted on May 28, 2015 by PaulVK

The Culture War as Competing Visions of “The Good” In the most contested battlegrounds of today’s culture war both sides imagine themselves occupying the moral high ground and the other is morally deficient. Where they differ is where they imagine … Continue reading →

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David Brooks Nails the Implicit Contemporary Source of Identity and Moral Authority

Posted on May 28, 2015 by PaulVK

In progressive American culture If you were born at any time over the last sixty years, you were probably born into what the philosopher Charles Taylor has called “the culture of authenticity.” This mindset is based on the romantic idea … Continue reading →

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Samuel Johnson and Montaigne in The Road to Character by David Brooks

Posted on May 8, 2015 by PaulVK

Samuel Johnson and Michel de Montaigne David Brook’s The Road to Character is a biographical box of chocolates and this chapter, like many of the others has a treat composed of two kinds of sweets. He begins the chapter with Samuel Johnson with … Continue reading →

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David Brooks’ treatment of Augustine in The Road to Character

Posted on May 7, 2015 by PaulVK

Augustine Of all the figures in Brooks’ biographical box of chocolates Augustine I knew the best. Brooks’ treatment of Augustine as a ladder climbing youth fighting inner turmoil seems postured almost like a Tim Keller sermon for modern New Yorkers. … Continue reading →

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George Eliot in The Road to Character

Posted on May 7, 2015 by PaulVK

George Eliot When I first started audiobooks I decided I wanted to read more novels. A number of people had talked about Middlemarch so I thought I’d give it a try. I made it about half way through but I was … Continue reading →

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David Brooks — Interesting Vulnerability

Posted on May 6, 2015 by PaulVK

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2015/05/05/david-brooks-interesting-vulnerability/ Direct Washington Post link

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Dignity, the Road to Character Chapter 6

Posted on May 4, 2015 by PaulVK

  Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph Of all the chapters in this book so far this is probably the most intriguing and possibly muddled. While Dr. ML King Jr. gets his how holiday, these are two important civil rights leaders … Continue reading →

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