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Ethical Universe: the Vectors of Evil Vs. Good

Author : John W. McAlister
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665511915
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)

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Book Synopsis Ethical Universe: the Vectors of Evil Vs. Good by : John W. McAlister

Download or read book Ethical Universe: the Vectors of Evil Vs. Good written by John W. McAlister and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of a 20-year project which synthesizes the work of renowned social philosopher and humanistic psychoanalyst neo-Freudian, Dr. Erich Fromm and the best of Aristotle's Golden-Means doctrine merged with Sigmund Freud's tripartite division of the human psyche - ego, id and superego. This dynamic merger dictates a spherical representation of infinite blends of character traits. Extreme (therefore evil) syndromes garishly emblazon the surface of the sphere; Aristotle's practical wisdom and moral virtues, Freud's genital character and Fromm's Productive Orientation electrifies the synergistic, creative center of the sphere. Friedrich Nietzsche's moral philosophy as well as Saint Thomas Aquinas provided excellent tests of our hypothesis. Fore more on the author, see the last section, "About the Author." "For humanistic ethics all evil strivings are directed against life and all good serves the preservation and unfolding of life" — Erich Fromm, Man For Himself, 1947 "Fromm's affinity with Thomas Aquinas and the Christian theologian Paul Tillich shows us humanism and organized religion need not be hostile to each other!" — John McAlister, Ethical Universe, 2008 "Love ever your neighbor as yourselves - but first be such as LOVE THEMSELVES." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1883

The Science of Good and Evil

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429996757
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Good and Evil written by Michael Shermer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to motivate us to procreate), they are now searching for the very nature of humanity. In The Science of Good and Evil, science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates; how and why morality motivates the human animal; and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans. As he closes the divide between science and morality, Shermer draws on stories from the Yanamamö, infamously known as the "fierce people" of the tropical rain forest, to the Stanford studies on jailers' behavior in prisons. The Science of Good and Evil is ultimately a profound look at the moral animal, belief, and the scientific pursuit of truth.

An Ocean Vast of Blessing

Author : Steven D. Cone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630872423
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book An Ocean Vast of Blessing written by Steven D. Cone and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans are made in the image of God, and authentically coming to be human means to become like him. This work pursues a robust and renewed theology of grace in conversation with the patristic traditions of Irenaeus, the Cappadocian Fathers, and Augustine, the medieval theology of Maximus and Aquinas, and such modern interlocutors as Soren Kierkegaard, Bernard Lonergan, John Milbank, and John Behr. It thereby regrounds our interpretation of Scripture in the wide tradition of the church. By doing so, it argues that Christ's incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection form the only possible point of reference by which we can understand the universe, as God creates it and works in it to bring us into union with himself.

The Ethical State - An Essay On Political Ethics

Author : John David Garcia
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780972178648
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Ethical State - An Essay On Political Ethics written by John David Garcia and published by Watchmaker Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moral Evil and Jashodaben, (Mother India)

Author : Satendra Kumar Parashar
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664117040
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Book Synopsis Moral Evil and Jashodaben, (Mother India) by : Satendra Kumar Parashar

Download or read book Moral Evil and Jashodaben, (Mother India) written by Satendra Kumar Parashar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is our moral duty to bring Jashodaben (Mother India) back to the house of her husband. Due to corruption in the police, 99% criminals go unpunished. Mohammed said, “Let there arise a group of people who enjoin good and forbid evil”. Moral evils are due to genes or Nature. Sexual misconduct cannot be prevented without finding a woman for every man. The state should buy eggs and serum on a large scale. The aim is to create embryos and destroy male embryos. Marriages are delayed due to the demands of dowry, long periods of education, lavish marriages, time taken for finding a job etc. Marriages must be as cheap as possible. Moral evils are due to genes for adultery, genes for violence, genes for egoism etc. The liars say that there existed a temple on my land of Dayanand Cooperative housing society (Delhi) and it was the birth place of Lord Krishna. The Pure Religion: Pure Religion is based on a single article of faith, that is, God exists. God and Nature are 2 independent Realities. Our prayer: O lord I am alone in the world and except thou nobody is mine. O Lord, forgive my sins and save me from new sins. O Lord give me transcendent, mystical and noumenal knowledge. O Lord, guide me to the right path and keep us on the path of truth, justice, moral purity and charity altruism, peace. etc. O Lord, save me from illegitimate gains and pleasures O Lord, we will carry out a holy war against the unjust people, O Lord save us from a false belief in gods, angels, Jinn, Satan, Iblis, devil, resurrection of dead, soul, rebirth, miracles, prophets, fate, Freedom of Will, heaven, hell, incarnation of God in human form, idolatry, revelations, rebirth etc. Atheism and religious conflicts can be eliminated by the Pure Religion. [email protected]

T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil

Author : Matthias Grebe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567682447
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil written by Matthias Grebe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil provides an extensive exploration of the theology of theodicy, asking questions such as should all instances of suffering necessarily be understood as evil? Why would an omnipotent and benevolent God allow or perpetrate evil? Is God unable or unwilling to reduce human and non-human suffering on Earth? Does humanity have the capacity to exercise a moral evaluation of God's motives and intentions? Conventional disciplinary boundaries have tended to separate theological approaches to these questions from philosophical ones. This volume aims to overcome these boundaries by including biblical (Part I), historical (Part II), doctrinal (Part III), philosophical (Part IV), and pastoral, interreligious perspectives and alternative intersections (Part V) on theodicy. Authors include thinkers from analytic and continental traditions, multiple Christian denominations and other religions, and both established and younger scholars, providing a full variety of approaches. What unites the essays is an attempt to answer these questions from the perspective of biblical testimony, historical scholarship, modern theological and philosophical thinking about the concept of God, non-Christian religions, science and the arts. The result is a combination of in-depth analysis and breadth of scope, making this a benchmark work for further studies in the theology of suffering and evil.

The Science of Good and Evil

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805077698
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (776 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Good and Evil written by Michael Shermer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how and why people made the leap fom social primate to moral primate, discussing how humans transformed the moral sentiments displayed in many primate species into ethical principles.

Living and Value

Author : Frederick Ferre
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450598
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Living and Value written by Frederick Ferre and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.

Theology and Technique

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172525977X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Theology and Technique written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and Technique is a posthumous, incomplete volume drafted in the 1970s that nevertheless constitutes a significant addition to the Ellul corpus. Working from Jacques Ellul’s original outline, a collaborative team including three of Ellul’s children, a grandson, and Ellul scholars has assembled previous partial publications that Ellul himself approved for eventual incorporation along with relevant unpublished essays and notes into a book which throws the relationship between Ellul’s radical theology and sociological critique into fresh perspective. Frédéric Rognon contributes an especially insightful general introduction. The translation by Christian Roy is a model of rendering the complexities of the French original into English. This latest Ellul publication will be essential to any serious attempt to appreciate the scope and depth of Ellul’s Christian engagement with the challenges of the contemporary world.

Studies in the Eighteenth Century III

Author : R.F. Brissenden
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442650834
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Eighteenth Century III written by R.F. Brissenden and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1976-12-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes. The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich area of study: the burgeoning of ideas about man and his place in the world, social history, philosophy and literature, literary criticism and traditions, the poetry and prose of the giants of the age. For all students of eighteenth-century studies this book will be vital reading.

The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory

Author : Christopher Michael Langan
Publisher : Mega Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 0971916225
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory written by Christopher Michael Langan and published by Mega Foundation Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback version of the 2002 paper published in the journal Progress in Information, Complexity, and Design (PCID). ABSTRACT Inasmuch as science is observational or perceptual in nature, the goal of providing a scientific model and mechanism for the evolution of complex systems ultimately requires a supporting theory of reality of which perception itself is the model (or theory-to-universe mapping). Where information is the abstract currency of perception, such a theory must incorporate the theory of information while extending the information concept to incorporate reflexive self-processing in order to achieve an intrinsic (self-contained) description of reality. This extension is associated with a limiting formulation of model theory identifying mental and physical reality, resulting in a reflexively self-generating, self-modeling theory of reality identical to its universe on the syntactic level. By the nature of its derivation, this theory, the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe or CTMU, can be regarded as a supertautological reality-theoretic extension of logic. Uniting the theory of reality with an advanced form of computational language theory, the CTMU describes reality as a Self Configuring Self-Processing Language or SCSPL, a reflexive intrinsic language characterized not only by self-reference and recursive self-definition, but full self-configuration and self-execution (reflexive read-write functionality). SCSPL reality embodies a dual-aspect monism consisting of infocognition, self-transducing information residing in self-recognizing SCSPL elements called syntactic operators. The CTMU identifies itself with the structure of these operators and thus with the distributive syntax of its self-modeling SCSPL universe, including the reflexive grammar by which the universe refines itself from unbound telesis or UBT, a primordial realm of infocognitive potential free of informational constraint. Under the guidance of a limiting (intrinsic) form of anthropic principle called the Telic Principle, SCSPL evolves by telic recursion, jointly configuring syntax and state while maximizing a generalized self-selection parameter and adjusting on the fly to freely-changing internal conditions. SCSPL relates space, time and object by means of conspansive duality and conspansion, an SCSPL-grammatical process featuring an alternation between dual phases of existence associated with design and actualization and related to the familiar wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics. By distributing the design phase of reality over the actualization phase, conspansive spacetime also provides a distributed mechanism for Intelligent Design, adjoining to the restrictive principle of natural selection a basic means of generating information and complexity. Addressing physical evolution on not only the biological but cosmic level, the CTMU addresses the most evident deficiencies and paradoxes associated with conventional discrete and continuum models of reality, including temporal directionality and accelerating cosmic expansion, while preserving virtually all of the major benefits of current scientific and mathematical paradigms.

Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond

Author : B. Åström
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113729163X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Rape in Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond written by B. Åström and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy – including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters – this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbø, Håkan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid.

Prophet of Justice, Prophet of Life

Author : Robert Boak Slocum
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625646070
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Prophet of Justice, Prophet of Life written by Robert Boak Slocum and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was William Stringfellow? Like most prophets, he was brilliant. But he was also, like most prophets, difficult, irascible, suspicious, contentious--and full of courage. He was a lawyer, a social activist, and a dedicated communicant of the Episcopal Church. He graduated from Harvard Law School in the 1950s but put aside the promise of a lucrative career and went to work in East Harlem, one of New York City's poorest neighborhoods. At the height of the Vietnam War, he took the Reverend Daniel Berrigan into his home and was indicted for harboring a fugitive. In the 1970s, while the Episcopal Church was struggling with such issues as the ordination of women and the funding of programs for minorities, he accused the ecclesiastical hierarchy of arrogance, duplicity, and lack of leadership. Everything William Stringfellow said and did was grounded in his profound belief in the Incarnation and the Eschaton. He knew Jesus Christ to be the Word of God, who is in all things and who challenges the powers and principalities of this world, calling people and institutions to repentance and newness of life. In Prophet of Justice, Prophet of Life editor Robert Boak Slocum has gathered a diverse group of clergy, legal scholars, and seminary faculty to produce this stimulating and provocative series of essays on the life and work of William Stringfellow.

The Knowledge of Good

Author : Robert S. Hartman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496106
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge of Good written by Robert S. Hartman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents Robert S. Hartman’s formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R.M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G.E. Moore, P.H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J.O. Urmson. Open Access funding for this volume has been provided by the Robert S. Hartman Institute.

Life Scientific Philosophy, Phenomenology of Life and the Sciences of Life

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401720797
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Life Scientific Philosophy, Phenomenology of Life and the Sciences of Life written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings to the public the fruits of the groundlaying work on the philosophy/phenomenology of life presented in some 30 volumes of the Analecta Husserliana, and inaugurates a new phase in philosophy/phenomenology - a truly radical turn. As Tymieniecka in her introduction puts it, the time is ripe to abandon the prejudices against empiria and set aside in a `second position' the epistemological/constitutive criterion of validity and truth - without, however, abandoning it. To the contrary: recognising with our present culture the overwhelmingly superior validity of the pragmaticity test, which science indubitably applies in its `verification' of technology, philosophy/phenomenology at last reaches the full significance of reality: the fullness of the vital fact of life, which comprises not only the works and enjoyment of the mind and the spirit, but those of the bios and the cosmos too. The full-fledged dialogue with the hard-core sciences opens up; philosophy of life and the human creative condition draws together all the radiations of life into its field of inquiry. Tymieniecka thus proposes a new mathesis universalis - the dream of Leibniz and Husserl - which can at least be fulfilled.

The Dreaming Universe

Author : Fred Alan Wolf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684801590
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Dreaming Universe written by Fred Alan Wolf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf provides a provocative exploration of the mysteries of how and why we dream, artfully combining anthropology, psychology, and physics to present his revolutionary theory that establishes previously unrecognized links between the physical act of dreaming and the development of consciousness. Line art.

Good and Real

Author : Gary L. Drescher
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262042339
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Good and Real written by Gary L. Drescher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, and other topics, Good and Real tries to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence. In Good and Real, Gary Drescher examines a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, quantum mechanics, and other topics, in an effort to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence. Many scientists suspect that the universe can ultimately be described by a simple (perhaps even deterministic) formalism; all that is real unfolds mechanically according to that formalism. But how, then, is it possible for us to be conscious, or to make genuine choices? And how can there be an ethical dimension to such choices? Drescher sketches computational models of consciousness, choice, and subjunctive reasoning--what would happen if this or that were to occur? --to show how such phenomena are compatible with a mechanical, even deterministic universe. Analyses of Newcomb's Problem (a paradox about choice) and the Prisoner's Dilemma (a paradox about self-interest vs. altruism, arguably reducible to Newcomb's Problem) help bring the problems and proposed solutions into focus. Regarding quantum mechanics, Drescher builds on Everett's relative-state formulation--but presenting a simplified formalism, accessible to laypersons--to argue that, contrary to some popular impressions, quantum mechanics is compatible with an objective, deterministic physical reality, and that there is no special connection between quantum phenomena and consciousness. In each of several disparate but intertwined topics ranging from physics to ethics, Drescher argues that a missing technical linchpin can make the quest for objectivity seem impossible, until the elusive technical fix is at hand.