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Martial virtues : lessons in wisdom, courage, and compassion from the world's greatest warriors / Charles Hackney.
LIBRA GV1101 .H33 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hackney, Charles H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martial arts.
- Spiritual life.
- Martial arts--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo ; Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub., [2010]
- Summary:
- These are a few of the virtues of the ideal warrior or martial artist. But from whence do these virtues arise? Are they inherent, or can they be cultivated and taught? If so, how?
- Spanning the globe from East to West, surveying philosophers, warriors, and civilizations from the ancient Greeks to the samurai and ninja of medieval Japan to the modern heroes of today, Charles Hackney employs the tools of the modern psychologist to examine the development of martial virtues.
- In these pages, you will learn what Bruce Lee and Sun Tzu have to say about wisdom, what Miyomoto Musashi has to say about audacity and courage, and what Yagyu Munenori has to say about justice. More importantly, you will learn what modern psychology has to say about how such virtues can be cultivated, both within yourself and in others.
- You will also learn the stories of many of the greatest warriors of fact and fiction, including Aeneas and Hector of Troy; William the Marshall, called the greatest knight who ever lived; Kuo Chieh, the Chinese Robin Hood, the famous Shaolin master Tid Kiu Sam; the 300 Spartans that turned aside a Persian Army at Thermopylae; the 47 ronin of Japan who revenged the unjust punishment of their master Korean General Kim Yu-shin, and Toshitsugu Takamatsu 33rd Grandmaster or Togakure Ryu Ninjutsu.
- Contents:
- The martial arts and the character of the warrior
- Virtue ethics, positive psychology, and the martial arts
- Approaches to the warrior virtues
- Courage
- Justice
- Temperance
- Wisdom
- Benevolence
- Courtesy (not a virtue, but still vital)
- Tying it all together : what's your story?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804840231
- 0804840237
- OCLC:
- 299278073
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