{"product_id":"wing-to-wing-oar-to-oar-readings-on-courting-and-marrying-ethics-of-everyday-life","title":"Wing to Wing  Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (Ethics of Everyday Life)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite 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 longingsfor friendship  for wholeness  for a life that is serious and deep  and for associations that are trustworthy and lastinglongings 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945302913077,"sku":"ByrdShop_0268019606","price":28.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780268019600.jpg?v=1769882120","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wing-to-wing-oar-to-oar-readings-on-courting-and-marrying-ethics-of-everyday-life","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}