Chivalry-Now: The Code of Male Ethics

by Joseph D. Jacques

What does it mean to be a man? When a culture fails to answer that properly, the results can be disastrous. For men it can lead to broken identity, overcrowded prisons, spousal abuse, gang violence, chemical addiction and aggressive, anti-social tendencies that wreck havoc all over the world. For women it can mean living in a suppressed environment where involvement is marginalized. Using medieval chivalry as a springboard, this book leads the reader into a thought-provoking quest for values long ignored. By incorporating freedom, personal authenticity, democracy and equality (including feminism), this new form of chivalry is entirely relevant for today's world.

220 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2010

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reaffirmation of the code.

[Alejandro Shirvani · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice book with a nice message about the importance of having values and a moral code: this takes some of the medieval concepts of 'chivalry' as explained in Arthurian literature and knightly codes of behaviour, and places them in a modern context. At times the book can sound a little over the top and cliched but the fundamental message is good, and it makes some pertinent points about how the lack of moral code has permeated our politics and business and seems to be just accepted as the 'way things are'.

[M. Azhaari Shah Sulaiman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chivalry Now is an invitation to readers to delve back into the chivalrous ethics of the Knights in the time of Arthur of Camelot since such ethics were no longer present and practiced in the western world which is now deemed to be unethical and are poor with good morality and good virtues.

[Michael Goliat · Rating 5 out of 5]

If every man read this book, the world would be a better place.