Virtues and Passions in Literature

The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.Paradoxically, our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric, emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. §Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character, courage, engagement, and wisdom to unfold. §The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress, never entirely accomplished, lift us toward personal fulfilment. §Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Tsung-I Dow, Bernard Micallef, Victor Gerald Rivas, Dorothea Olkowski, Evgenia Cherkasova, Bruce Ross, Rebecca M. Painter, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, Raymond J. Wilson III, Peter Weigel, Annika Ljung-Baruth, Lawrence F. Rhu, John Baldacchino, Rajiv Kaushik, Jaimie Jadovitz, Enrico Escher, Martin Holt, William Roberts, Munir Beken.