Moral Lessons in African Folktales Dan Insaidoo Author
Ein Angebot gefunden
Bester Preis: € 12,93 (vom 20.02.2020)Aus dem Archiv:
1
Moral Lessons in African Folktales Dan Insaidoo Author (1500)
~EN NWISBN: 9789988148553 bzw. 9988148550, vermutlich in Englisch, Icon Publishing Ltd, neu.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
This book challenges us to take a cursory glance at our contemporary world, where modern man’s scientific and technological ingenuity has led him to soar thorough the galaxy and made the heavens part of his domain; and contrast that with his level of morality today. Open any newspaper or listen to the radio and television news and you can’t help but lament on the appalling moral depravity and obscene behavior of our contemporary man. If you cast a glance around, you will see abhorrent and appalling moral depravity lurking in our faces.With this intractable moral depravity on the ascendancy, the author nostalgically reminiscences the upright morality of the good old days, and admonishes us to heed Plato’s philosophical advice: ‘now since men are by nature acquisitive, jealous, combative, and erotic, how shall we persuade them to behave themselves? By the policeman’s omnipresent club? {now, AK 47}. It is a brutal method, costly and irritating. There is a better way, and this is by lending to the moral requirements of the community.’Throughout this book the author emphasizes the significance of proper moral education in shaping the character of children, youngsters and even adults; because as he reminds us: ‘morals are the rules by which society exhorts its members and associations to behavior consistent with its order, security and growth’ {Will & Ariel Durant}.The author noted that in the traditional African societies, the wise elders, like the ancient Greek philosophers, strongly emphasized the teachability of moral values and therefore deliberately inculcated these values into their youngsters, so much that their societies did not degenerate into what Ariel & Will Durant described in 1500 Europe: “ the students are refractory and insolent in the extreme…in most university towns the citizens hesitated to go out at night for fear of the students, who on some occasions attacked them with open knives. As for adults, the preachers described them as quarrelsome, hypocrites, gluttons, drunkards and adulterers………. Vice of all sorts is now so common that it is committed without shame, nay, people even boast of it in sodomitish fashion; the coarsest, the most indecent sins have become virtues.”The author advises that in our contemporary era, we owe it to ourselves, our children, our great grandchildren and our beautiful world to continue to teach and accelerate the level of moral education into our youngsters through community groups, religious and secular instructions, and various books exhorting moral training.The stories in this book are some of the folktales filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe.The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.
This book challenges us to take a cursory glance at our contemporary world, where modern man’s scientific and technological ingenuity has led him to soar thorough the galaxy and made the heavens part of his domain; and contrast that with his level of morality today. Open any newspaper or listen to the radio and television news and you can’t help but lament on the appalling moral depravity and obscene behavior of our contemporary man. If you cast a glance around, you will see abhorrent and appalling moral depravity lurking in our faces.With this intractable moral depravity on the ascendancy, the author nostalgically reminiscences the upright morality of the good old days, and admonishes us to heed Plato’s philosophical advice: ‘now since men are by nature acquisitive, jealous, combative, and erotic, how shall we persuade them to behave themselves? By the policeman’s omnipresent club? {now, AK 47}. It is a brutal method, costly and irritating. There is a better way, and this is by lending to the moral requirements of the community.’Throughout this book the author emphasizes the significance of proper moral education in shaping the character of children, youngsters and even adults; because as he reminds us: ‘morals are the rules by which society exhorts its members and associations to behavior consistent with its order, security and growth’ {Will & Ariel Durant}.The author noted that in the traditional African societies, the wise elders, like the ancient Greek philosophers, strongly emphasized the teachability of moral values and therefore deliberately inculcated these values into their youngsters, so much that their societies did not degenerate into what Ariel & Will Durant described in 1500 Europe: “ the students are refractory and insolent in the extreme…in most university towns the citizens hesitated to go out at night for fear of the students, who on some occasions attacked them with open knives. As for adults, the preachers described them as quarrelsome, hypocrites, gluttons, drunkards and adulterers………. Vice of all sorts is now so common that it is committed without shame, nay, people even boast of it in sodomitish fashion; the coarsest, the most indecent sins have become virtues.”The author advises that in our contemporary era, we owe it to ourselves, our children, our great grandchildren and our beautiful world to continue to teach and accelerate the level of moral education into our youngsters through community groups, religious and secular instructions, and various books exhorting moral training.The stories in this book are some of the folktales filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe.The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.
Kategorie: Juvenile>Juvenile>YA>YA Fantasy,Adventure>YA Adventure
Daten vom 20.02.2020 07:52h
ISBN (andere Schreibweisen): 9988-1-4855-0, 978-9988-1-4855-3
Daten vom 20.02.2020 07:52h
ISBN (andere Schreibweisen): 9988-1-4855-0, 978-9988-1-4855-3
Zuerst gefunden: 20.02.2020 07:52:19
Zuletzt gefunden: 20.02.2020 07:52:19
Kleinster Preis: € 12,93 (vom 20.02.2020 07:52:19)
Höchster Preis: € 12,93 (vom 20.02.2020 07:52:19)
Fundstellen insgesamt: 1
Zuletzt gefunden: 20.02.2020 07:52:19
Kleinster Preis: € 12,93 (vom 20.02.2020 07:52:19)
Höchster Preis: € 12,93 (vom 20.02.2020 07:52:19)
Fundstellen insgesamt: 1
Momentan keine Suchergebnisse - vielleicht bald lieferbar
Ihre Suche nach ist bei mehr als 100 angebundenen Webshops momentan nicht lieferbar. Wir finden dieses Buch aber trotzdem innerhalb weniger Wochen.
Sie Suchen nach diesem Buch:Moral Lessons in African Folktales Dan Insaidoo Author
ISBN: 9789988148553
Speichern Sie diese Suche kostenlos in ab, dann werden Sie automatisch benachrichtigt, sobald dieses Buch verfügbar ist. Meistens finden wir dieses Buch innerhalb weniger Wochen und verständigen Sie dann per E-Mail. Sie können dann frei entscheiden, ob Sie das Buch kaufen wollen oder nicht.
Unser Suchtipp für Ihre Suche:
- Suchen nach Suchbegriffen wie Autor oder Titel des Buches sind erfolgreicher als solche nach der ISBN.: Suche nach "folktales insaidoo lessons" liefert mehr Ergebnisse
Sie haben jetzt folgende Möglichkeiten:
- Speichern Sie diese Seite in Ihren Lesezeichen oder Favoriten ab, dann können Sie jederzeit die Suche erneut ausführen.
- Das Buch ist tatsächlich derzeit vergriffen bzw. nicht lieferbar. Es ist z.B. eine Rarität. Möglicherweise ist es aber in einiger Zeit lieferbar. Speichern Sie dazu diese Suche kostenlos ab oder lassen Sie sich kostenlos auf dieses Gerät benachrichten und Sie werden automatisch per E-Mail oder Nachricht informiert, sobald dieses Buch wieder lieferbar wird. Wir sind zuversichtlich, dass wir jedes Buch auf diese Weise innerhalb relativ kurzer Zeit finden. Probieren Sie es einfach aus!
Mich bei neuen Ergebnissen benachrichtigenSuche jetzt kostenlos SpeichernIn 50 Millionen auch bereits vergriffenen Büchern recherchieren!
Anmeldung mit Google:
ODER
Anmeldung mit Facebook:
Lade…