Leading Lives That Matter : What We Should Do and Who We Should Be

by Schwehn, Mark R.

• ISBN13: 9780802832566
• ISBN10: 0802832563
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

"Leading Lives that Matter" draws together a wide range of texts -- including fiction, autobiography, and philosophy -- that offer challenge and insight for those who are thinking about what to do with their lives.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xii
Preface	xvi
Introduction	1	(8)
Prologue	9	(40)
William James
"What Makes a Life Significant?"	14	(15)
Albert Schweitzer
"I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor"	29	(20)
PART I: VOCABULARIES
Authenticity
Charles Taylor
from The Ethics of Authenticity	49	(10)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Solitude of Self"	59	(6)
Virtue
Aristotle
from Nicomachean Ethics	65	(18)
Theodore Roosevelt
"The Vigor of Life"	83	(6)
Vocation
Matthew 20:20-28	89	(1)
Lee Hardy
"Making the Match: Career Choice"	90	(11)
Gary D. Badcock
"Choosing"	101	(6)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"The Place of Responsibility"	107	(4)
Frederick Buechner
"Vocation"	111	(1)
Will Campbell
"Vocation as Grace"	112	(5)
PART II: QUESTIONS
1. Are Some Lives More Significant Than Others?	117	(64)
C.S. Lewis
"Learning in War-Time"	124	(5)
Aristotle
from Nicomachean Ethics	129	(1)
Homer
from The Iliad	130	(14)
The Martyrdom of Perpetua	144	(9)
Dorothy Day
from Therese	153	(13)
Three Biographical Sketches	166	(9)
Ray Kroc	168	(3)
Iris Chang	171	(2)
Joseph S. ("Smiley") Landrum	173	(2)
Thomas Gray
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"	175	(6)
2. Must My Job Be the Primary Source of My Identity?	181	(64)
Russell Muirhead
from Just Work	188	(3)
Dorothy L. Sayers
"Why Work?"	191	(5)
Robert Frost
"Two Tramps in Mud Time"	196	(3)
Margaret Piercy
"To be of use"	199	(2)
H.G. Wells
"The Door in the Wall"	201	(15)
Abraham Joshua Heschel
from The Sabbath	216	(6)
William Wordsworth
"The World Is Too Much with Us" and "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"	222	(7)
Gilbert Meilaender
"Friendship and Vocation"	229	(16)
3. Is a Balanced Life Possible and Preferable to a Life Focused Primarily on Work?	245	(68)
Robert Wuthnow
"The Changing Nature of Work in the United States: Implications for Vocation, Ethics, and Faith"	255	(8)
Bonnie Miller-McLemore
"Generativity Crises of My Own"	263	(9)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
"There's No Place Like Work"	272	(6)
Abigail Zuger, M.D.
"Defining a Doctor"	278	(3)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Village Blacksmith"	281	(2)
Wendell Berry
"An Invisible Web"	283	(11)
King Hussein and Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
Two Eulogies for Yitzhak Rabin	294	(4)
Annie Dillard
"Living Like Weasels"	298	(4)
William Butler Yeats
"The Choice"	302	(1)
Jane Addams
"Filial Relations"	303	(5)
Martha Nussbaum
interviewed by Bill Moyers	308	(5)
4. Should I Follow My Talents as I Decide What to Do to Earn a Living?	313	(46)
Matthew 25:14-30
The Parable of the Talents	317	(1)
John Milton
"On His Blindness"	318	(2)
Immanuel Kant
from Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals	320	(1)
Elizabeth Gaskell
from The Life of Charlotte Bronte	321	(1)
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
from the screenplay of Good Will Hunting	322	(8)
James Baldwin
"Sonny's Blues"	330	(29)
5. To Whom Should I Listen?	359	(68)
Will Weaver
"The Undeclared Major"	364	(6)
Amy Tan
"Two Kinds"	370	(11)
Malcolm X with Alex Haley
from The Autobiography of Malcolm X	381	(5)
Lois Lowry
from The Giver	386	(9)
Vincent Harding
"I Hear Them...Calling"	395	(9)
Willa Cather
"The Ancient People"	404	(9)
Garret Keizer
from A Dresser of Sycamore Trees	413	(14)
6. Can I Control What I Shall Do and Become?	427	(24)
William Ernest Henley
"Invictus"	434	(1)
Thomas Lynch
"Passed On"	435	(3)
Stephen Dunn
"The Last Hours"	438	(2)
The Book of Jonah	440	(4)
Sullivan Ballou
A Letter to His Wife, 1861	444	(3)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Weddings"	447	(2)
Thomas Merton
from Thoughts in Solitude	449	(2)
7. How Shall I Tell the Story of My Life?	451	(36)
Robert Frost
"The Road Not Taken"	458	(1)
Mary Catherine Bateson
"Composing a Life Story"	459	(8)
Wendell Berry
from Jayber Crow	467	(1)
John Steinbeck
from East of Eden	468	(3)
Dan McAdams
"An American Life Story"	471	(10)
Michael T. Kaufman
"Robert McG. Thomas, 60, Chronicler of Unsung Lives"	481	(6)
Epilogue	487	(53)
Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych	492	(48)
Index	540