Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and MarryingAmy A. Kass, Leon Kass Despite current concerns for "family values" and the dissolution of marriages, Amy A. and Leon R. Kass see very little attention being paid to what makes for marital success. They argue there are no longer socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony; the very concepts of "wooing" and "courting" seem archaic. Yet they see major discontent with the present situation and detect among their students certain longings--for friendship, for wholeness, for a life that is serious and deep, and for associations that are trustworthy and lasting--longings they do not realize could be largely satisfied by marrying well. Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It addresses important questions that emerge not from theory, but from practice: Why marry? Is this love? How can I find and win the right one to marry? What about sex? Why a wedding and the promises of marriage? What can married life be like? Using readings taken mainly from classic texts of Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Aquinas, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Austen, Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Miss Manners, and many others, this collection challenges our unexamined opinions, expands our sympathies, elevates our gaze. It offers a higher kind of sex education, one that prepares hearts and minds for romance leading to lasting marriage, and introduces us to possibilities open to human beings in everyday life that may be undreamt of in our current philosophizing. This unapologetically pro-marriage anthology is intended to help young people of marriageable age and their parents think about the meaning, purpose, and virtues of marriage and, especially, about finding the right person with whom to make a life. |
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... eyes To twinkle in their spheres37 till they return . What if her eyes were there , they in her head ? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp ; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream ...
... eyes toward him in order to examine his face better . She finds nothing there which denies the comparison . His easy bear- ing is free without being arrogant . His manners are lively without being giddy . His sensitivity makes his ...
... eyes with her charms ; his heart must seek them out . It is no longer enough for her that he see her charms ; she wants him to suppose them . Has he not seen enough of them to be obliged to guess the rest ? It may be believed that ...
Contents
A Where Are We Now? Assessing Our Situation | 23 |
B Why Marry? Defenses of Matrimony | 81 |
What About Sex? Man Woman and Sexuality | 155 |
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