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Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar - Readings on Courting and Marrying (Hardcover)
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Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar - Readings on Courting and Marrying (Hardcover)
Series: Ethics of Everyday Life
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Despite current concerns for "family values" and the dissolution of
marriages, Amy A. and Leon R. Kass see very little attention being
paid to what makes for marital success. They argue there are no
longer socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young
men and women in the direction of matrimony; the very concepts of
"wooing" and "courting" seem archaic. Yet they see major discontent
with the present situation and detect among their students certain
longings-for friendship, for wholeness, for a life that is serious
and deep, and for associations that are trustworthy and
lasting-longings they do not realize could be largely satisfied by
marrying well. Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is
an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the
contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to
marriage. It addresses important questions that emerge not from
theory, but from practice: Why marry? Is this love? How can I find
and win the right one to marry? What about sex? Why a wedding and
the promises of marriage? What can married life be like? Using
readings taken mainly from classic texts of Homer, Herodotus,
Plato, Aquinas, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Austen, Tolstoy,
C.S. Lewis, Miss Manners, and many others, this collection
challenges our unexamined opinions, expands our sympathies,
elevates our gaze. It offers a higher kind of sex education, one
that prepares hearts and minds for romance leading to lasting
marriage, and introduces us to possibilities open to human beings
in everyday life that may be undreamt of in our current
philosophizing. This unapologetically pro-marriage anthology is
intended to help young people of marriageable age and their parents
think about the meaning, purpose, and virtues of marriage and,
especially, about finding the right person with whom to make a
life.
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