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jasowen6 's review for:
The Road to Character
by David Brooks
This book provides short biographies of several people from history, focusing on the moral progression of their lives. The challenges and development of each person's character is described. It is expected that the stories of some of these people will resonate with the reader -- while other stories may not. The problem for me with these biographies was largely in the repeated focus on the spiritual perspective for most of these people and the repeated inclusion of "sin" as the moral obstacle (or set of obstacles) for each person to overcome. But, it was never quite clear to me what is meant by "sin". Is it sin against the person's self, or a god, or humanity, or culture? The repeated use of "sin" with no clear description of what is meant by it left me confused and so I didn't get much out of this book. The most meaningful chapter in the book was the last, where the book gives more salient descriptions of the characteristics and faults that many of us struggle with.