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A Return to Modesty - Wendy Shalit


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A Return to Modesty - Wendy Shalit

 
Description: ISBN 0684863170 / Author: Wendy Shalit / Genre: Politics / Society / Philosophy

Newest Review: ... all seriousness, and away from sarcasm, what's wrong with being modest? There's absolutely nothing wrong with it; rather the ... more

 ... contrary, it makes us easier for us to raise our children without having to explain many things to them. Expressing the idea more seriously I would say, there are certain things that you might not want your children to see, right? But, this modesty should be in the right way and for the correct reasons. Shalit does her best to make seemingly logical arguments, like: "As Norman Lamm points out: 'You meet a person who is always bragging, always talking about his own achievements, boasting of his attractiveness o...more

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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue By Wendy Shalit I certainly did not choose to read a book called A Return to Modesty; I had to read it for I needed more material on the subject of modesty which it obviously tackles. To start with, I have nothing against religious on modest people; on the contrary, I admire those who have the guts to admit they are religious in an age in which this is considered a sin; probably this is why I like people like T. S. Eliot who celebrated spirituality in an age of despair. In this book, the American writer Wendy Shalit obviously tries to prove why women's modesty is the ...  Read the complete review

 

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