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Individualism In William Brooks The Road To Character

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In the last chapter of The Road to Character, Brooks briefly provides the biographies of two quarterbacks, Johnny Unitas and Joe Namath. In doing so, Brooks, continues to discuss the past moral ecology in contrast to the present day as he mentions that these football players are “decades apart” and have “different moral cultures.” From there, Unitas is described as coming from an “old culture,” one which focuses on “self-effacement and self-defeat.” On the other hand, Namath is labelled as an individual who embodies the contemporary culture of “self-expression and self-glorification”. More to the point, Unitas is labelled as a person who is more collective as he makes “his teammates better.” Contrary to this, Namath represents individualism,

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