Human Goodness

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Yi-Fu Tuan

Verlag:

University of Wisconsin Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35045792

EAN: 9780299226749

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 23.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 32.75

Beschreibung

In his many best-selling books, Yi-Fu Tuan seizes big, metaphysical issues and considers them in uniquely accessible ways. Human Goodness is evidence of this talent and is both as simple, and as epic, as it sounds. Genuinely good people and their actions, Tuan contends, are far from boring, naive, and trite; they are complex, varied, and enormously exciting. In a refreshing antidote to skeptical times, he writes of ordinary human courtesies, as simple as busing your dishes after eating, that make society functional and livable. And he writes of extraordinary courage and inventiveness under the weight of adversity and evil. He considers the impact of communal goodness over time, and his sketches of six very different individuals—Confucius, Socrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Keats, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and Simone Weil—confirm that there are human lives that can encourage and lead us to our better selves.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Yi-Fu Tuan

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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