Leading a Worthy Life
Leading a Worthy Life Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. With a once confident culture no longer offering…
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Leading a Worthy Life
Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea--regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one.
We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it's all for.Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our "interesting time" paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. The old Socratic question "How to live?" suddenly commands serious attention.
Young Americans, if