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Freely Determined

Author : Kennon M Sheldon
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541620372
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Freely Determined written by Kennon M Sheldon and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned psychologist argues that free will is not only real but essential to our well-being It’s become fashionable to argue that free will is a fiction: that we humans are in the thrall of animal urges and unconscious biases and only think that we are choosing freely. In Freely Determined, research psychologist Kennon Sheldon argues that this perception is not only wrong but also dangerous. Drawing on decades of his own groundbreaking empirical research into motivation and goal setting, Sheldon shows us that embracing the ability to choose our path in life makes us happier, healthier, and more fulfilled. He also shows that this insight can help us choose better goals—ones that are concordant with our values and that, critically, we’re more likely to actually see through. Providing readers insight into how they can live a more self-directed, satisfying life, Freely Determined offers an essential guide for how we might recognize our freedom and use it wisely.

Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality

Author : William L. Rowe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801425578
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality written by William L. Rowe and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this succinct and well-written book, one of our most eminent philosophers provides a fresh reading of the view of freedom and morality developed by Thomas Reid (1710-1796). Although contemporary theorists have written extensively about the Scottish philosopher's contributions to the theory of knowledge, this is the first book-length study of his contributions to the controversy over freedom and necessity. William L. Rowe argues that Reid developed a subtle, systematic theory of moral freedom based on the idea of the human being as a free and morally responsible agent. He carefully reconstructs the theory and explores the intellectual background to Reid's views in the work of John Locke, Samuel Clarke, and Anthony Collins. Rowe develops a novel account of Reid's conception of free action and relates it to contemporary arguments that moral responsibility for an action implies the power to have done otherwise. Distilling from Reid's work a viable version of the agency theory of freedom and responsibility, he suggests how Reid's theory can be defended against the major objections--both historical and contemporary--that have been advanced against it. Blending to good effect historical and philosophical analysis, Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality should interest philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians.

A Conceptual-analytic Study of Classical Indian Philosophy of Morals

Author : Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180695445
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book A Conceptual-analytic Study of Classical Indian Philosophy of Morals written by Rajendra Prasad and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using recontructive ideas available in classical Indian original works, this book makes a departure in the style of modern writings on Indian moral philosophy. It presents Indian ethics, in an objective, secular, and wherever necessary, critical manner as a systematic, down-to-earth, philosophical account of moral values, virtues, rights and obligations. It thereby refutes the claim that Indian philosophy has no ethics as well as the counter-claim that it transcends ethics. It demonstrates that moral living proves that the individual, his society and the world are really real and not only taken to be real for behavioral purposes as the Advaitins hold, the self is amoral being a non-agent, moksa is not a moral value, and the Karmic theory, because of involving belief in rebirth, does not fuarantee that the doer of an action is also the experiencer of its results, contrary to what is commonly held, and Indian ethics can sustain itself even if such notions are dropped. Rajendra Prasad calls Indian ethics organismic because, along with ethical concerns, it also covers issues related to professions, politics, administration, sex, environment, etc. Therefore, in one format it is theoretical and applied, normative and metaethical, humanistic and non-humanistic, etc., of course, within the limits of the then cognitive enquiry.

The Works of John Owen, D.D. Edited by T. Russell. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, by W. Orme. (Funeral Sermon ... by D. Clarkson.).

Author : John OWEN (D.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Owen, D.D. Edited by T. Russell. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, by W. Orme. (Funeral Sermon ... by D. Clarkson.). written by John OWEN (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dissertation on Divine Justice, Or, The Claims of Vindicatory Justice Asserted

Author : John Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Dissertation on Divine Justice, Or, The Claims of Vindicatory Justice Asserted written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Self-Determination of Peoples

Author : Antonio Cassese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521637527
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Self-Determination of Peoples written by Antonio Cassese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive study of the doctrine of self-determination of peoples.

Washington University Studies

Author : Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Washington University Studies written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Washington University Studies

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Washington University Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

Author : Andre Gorz
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781680264
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology written by Andre Gorz and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work and the structure of the workforce, Gorz explores the new political agendas facing both left and right. Each is in disarray: the right, torn between the demands of capital and the ‘traditional values’ of its supporters, can only offer illusory solutions, while the left either capitulates to these or remains tempted by regressive, ‘fundamentalist’ projects inappropriate to complex modern societies. Identifying the grave risks posed by a dual society with a hyperactive minority of full-time workers confronting a silenced majority who are, at best, precariously employed, Gorz proposes a new definition of a key social conflict within Western societies in terms of the distribution of work and the form and content of non-working time. Taking into account changing cultural attitudes to work, he re-examines socialism’s historical project—which, he contends, has always properly been to lay down the rules and limits within which economic raitonality may be permitted to function, not to create some statist, productivist countersystem. Above all, he offers a vital fresh perspective for the left, whose objective, in his view, must be to extend the sphere to autonomous human activity, and increase the possibilities for individual self-fulfilment.

Creating New States

Author : Aleksandar Pavkovic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317158474
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Creating New States written by Aleksandar Pavkovic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secession is the creation of a new independent state out of an existing state. This key volume examines the political, social and legal processes of the practice of secession. Following an analysis of secessionist movements and their role in attempts at secession, eight case studies are explored to illustrate peaceful, violent, sequential and recursive secessions. This is followed by a look at the theoretical approaches and a discussion that focuses on the economic causes. Normative theories of secession are discussed as well as the status of secession in legal theory and practice. The book systematizes our present knowledge of secessions in an accessible way to readers not familiar with the phenomenon and its consequences. It is ideal as a supplementary text to courses on contemporary political and social movements, applied ethics and political philosophy, international relations and international law, state sovereignty and state formation.

Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Author : Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563246371
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States written by Zbigniew Brzezinski and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mammoth volume on the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), assembling major accords and protocols that form the institutional framework of the Commonwealth, key political statements by leaders of CIS member states, coverage of CIS responses to internal crises, and a detailed chronology of developments in the early years of the CIS's existence, plus color maps and statistics. Introductory notes to each group of documents supply historical background and highlight the inner dynamics of the CIS. An introduction places the dissolution of the USSR and the development of the CIS in a larger historical and geopolitical context. Includes contacts of CIS embassies and consulates in the US. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dante's Ten Heavens

Author : Edmund G. Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dante's Ten Heavens written by Edmund G. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kant's Deontological Eudaemonism

Author : Jeanine M. Grenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019267949X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Kant's Deontological Eudaemonism written by Jeanine M. Grenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Professor Jeanine Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a system of eudaemonism, indeed, as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms of it: a system of what she calls Deontological Eudaemonism. In Deontological Eudaemonism, one achieves happiness both rationally conceived (as non-felt pleasure in the virtually unimpeded harmonious activity of one's will and choice) and empirically conceived (as pleasurable fulfilment of one's desires) only via authentic commitment to and fulfilment of what is demanded of all rational beings: making persons as such one's end in all things. To tell this story of Deontological Eudaemonism, Grenberg first defends the notion that Kant's deontological approach to ethics is simultaneously (and indeed, foundationally, and most basically) teleological. She then shows that the realization of an aptitude for the virtuous fulfilment of one's obligatory ends provides the solid basis for simultaneous realization of happiness, both rationally and empirically conceived. Along the way, she argues both that Kant's notion of happiness rationally conceived is essentially identical to Aristotle's conception of happiness as unimpeded activity, and that his notion of happiness empirically conceived is best realized via an unwavering commitment to the fulfilment of one's obligatory ends.

An Exposition of the Creed

Author : John Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book An Exposition of the Creed written by John Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No More Free Lunch

Author : Claes Brundenius
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319009184
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book No More Free Lunch written by Claes Brundenius and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 2010, the Cuban government decided to embark on an economic reform program, unprecedented after the Revolution in 1959. This opened up opportunities for Cuban economists and scholars to participate in the development of the reform program. Thanks to grants from SSRC (Social Sciences Research Council, New York) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several researchers from the Cuban think tank CEEC (Center for Studies of the Cuban Economy, Havana) got an opportunity to visit countries that could be of interest for the reform process, notably Vietnam, but also Brazil, South Africa and Norway. The result of these field visits and a subsequent workshop involving contributions from Cuban as well as non-Cuban scholars, this volume showcases unprecedented new insights into the process and prospects for reform along many dimensions, including foreign direct investment, import substitution, entrepreneurship and business creation, science and technology development, and fiscal policies. The resulting analysis, in a comparative perspective, provides a framework for future research as well as for business practice and policymaking.

The Works of John Owen, D.D.

Author : John Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Works of John Owen, D.D. written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Concept of Equality in the Writings of Rousseau, Bentham, and Kant

Author : Alfred Tuttle Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Equality in the Writings of Rousseau, Bentham, and Kant written by Alfred Tuttle Williams and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: