Noble Purpose by William Damon

Noble Purpose by William Damon

Noble Purpose draws upon religious, philosophical and literary writings to show how humans in many cultures and historical epochs have pursued noble purposes by answering God's call as each hears it. Noble purpose can be pursued both in heroic acts and in everyday behaviour.

William Damon is a Stanford University professor of education, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute on Conflict, Revolution, and Peace, and the Director of Stanford's Center on Adolescence. He was a University Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Development at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, before moving to California. Damon has written extensively about the importance of moral commitment at all phases of life. Damon has been working on a collaborative initiative (with Howard Gardner and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) for the past seven years that aims to encourage brilliance and social responsibility in critical areas of contemporary work. Business, media, science, the arts, higher education, and philanthropy are among the domains.

Damon has teamed up with a group of senior journalists (the Washington-based Committee for Concerned Journalists) to build a traveling curriculum in journalism studies (see www.journalism.org) as part of the larger Good Work project (www.goodworkproject.org). Hundreds of newsrooms in print, broadcast, and online have already benefited from our training program.

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ISBN 13	9781932031546
ISBN 10	1932031545
Title	Noble Purpose
Author	William Damon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.
Year published	2003-09-25
Number of pages	128
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