Edmund F. Byrne, Carmel, is a retired philosophy professor who has taken up poetry after years of publishing books and articles in his professional field. For 20 years, he was a section editor for the Journal of Business Ethics. Recently, he has reviewed books critical of the “just war” theory. During his time teaching at IUPUI, he established a Peace and Global Justice Award. His recent poetry title was released on May 29, Human Kindness Shortfalls, which addresses human nature and kindness.
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Each of the poems in this book addresses a problem that human kindness has failed to resolve sufficiently thereby to enhance people’s ability to improve the world as we know it.
Collectively, these poems are divided into five categories in the following order: First, destructive activities known personally by the author; second, examples and illustrations of issues that compromise the ability of families to thrive; third, failures in the political realm that undermine social well-being; fourth, critiques of the human propensity for war; fifth, some of the author’s experiences reflective of ecological woes in the world. As noted above, by associating each of these concerns with a shortfall of human kindness, the author implies that greater openness to others in our attitudes could improve the world in which we live.
Human Kindness Shortfalls by Edmund F. Byrne is published by Austin Macauley Publishers and is available on austinmacauley.com, at Amazon, and at many booksellers.
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