The Soul of Civility Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves

Maybe what you need to know about this book is the Wall Street Journal said that it quotes Marcus Aurelius too much.

I think the original title of the book was something about politeness.

What happens when civility collapses? What happens when norms are shattered? What happens when no people don't behave like philosophers?

And that's really the wellspring of true civility and it's like a very stoical insight like you know we're so inclined it's part of the human condition to point fingers and blame and to be focusing on what other people should be doing differently. And yet he inverts that and he says you know only focus on you. I forgive the shortcomings of others and avoid falling short yourself which is a high standard one that I fall short of all the time.

Hudson has since published her first book, Soul of Civility, Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.

I don't wanna paint any vocation, any geography, any period in history, or any locale with a broad brush.

And that is why this thing called friendship, this thing called community, this thing called society is never a foregone conclusion.

How does that fit into Augustine's framework? He was full of self-loathing.

chapter of my book, it's called on misplaced meaning and forgiveness, that as these traditional touchstones of meaning in modern life and, but also across human history, things like friendship, family, faith, they have been on the decline in recent decades.