Ebook {Epub PDF} Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue by Paul Woodruff

Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. Like an important engine part that has rusted over time, the idea of reverence has become increasingly foreign. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the 4/5(1).  · Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance of the forgotten virtue of reverence, and how awe for things greater th. Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies/5.  · Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. by Paul Woodruff. pages, Oxford University Press, $ This little book wins people over because of its .

Reverence Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. By Paul Woodruff. On the virtue of reverence held in high esteem in Greek and Chinese traditions. A Book Simply put, reverence is the virtue that keeps human beings from trying to act like gods." Read the Book Review. Related Main Practice. I finished a fine little book, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue (Oxford Univ. Press, ), by Paul Woodruff, a classical scholar at UT-Austin who is into Thucydides and ancient political philosophy. For many today, "reverence" is just a polite Sunday codeword for "shut up and stop hitting your sister." For Woodruff, reverence is a forgotten classical virtue that has more to do with. Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance of.

Reverence Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. Reverence. By Paul Woodruff. An eloquent and uplifting overview of this ancient virtue held in the highest esteem by the ancient Greeks and Chinese. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance of the forgotten virtue of reverence, and how awe for things greater than oneself can--indeed must--be a touchstone for other virtues like respect, humility, and charity. Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue —the title is straightforward, the subtitle a lament easily understood and therefore not much elaborated. This book by Paul Woodruff (Professor of Humanities at the University of Texas in Austin) is a delight, in part from the beauty and pertinence of the poetry that Woodruff brings in to illuminate his discussion, and from the charm added by his explications.