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ON CIVILITY Restorative Reflections: Where has all the civility gone? A collection of poetry that takes us on a treasure hunt to restore the concept o

ON CIVILITY Restorative Reflections: Where has all the civility gone? A collection of poetry that takes us on a treasure hunt to restore the concept o

Curtin, John-Robert
Chan, Ying Kit

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral PoetrySelf-Help

ISBN10: 1938462424
ISBN13: 9781938462429
Publisher: Old Stone Press
Published: Aug 18 2020
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.24 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This collection of poetry centers on my reflections of the concepts surrounding civility, and writing the poems has been restorative to me and to my understanding of this ancient concept.

Beginning with the traditional notion of manners and politeness (George Washington, Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior, 1744), and continuing to the more subtle concepts of compassion, dignity, human value, human worth, forgiveness, and self-dignity, this collection is an attempt to understand and explain a concept that has varied over time and through different cultures. The concept is often connected with civilization and civil because they share the same root word, but civility is more active, more basic, and more personal. Being civil to one another is much more active and positive a good than mere politeness or courtesy, (Robert B. Pippin, The Persistence of Subjectivity, 2005).

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