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Humanity’s Beauty and Risk

Author : Ahmed Fathi Shalabi
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039193684
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Humanity’s Beauty and Risk written by Ahmed Fathi Shalabi and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We experience beauty and risk on a daily basis: in what we see, what we feel, how we accept and judge others, and why we are human. Beauty and risk both challenge and frustrate us to think, learn, listen, and question ourselves. Humanity’s Beauty and Risk is an exploration of that challenge. One part poetry and two parts philosophy, this text explores the stages of human development: Infancy’s Dictums, Toddler’s Structure, Childhood’s Truth, Adolescence’s Love, Adult’s Maturity, and the Higher Self. Readers are guided to be fully present, aware of where they are and what they are doing, and to question what they think they know about these two captivating states. This mental exercise can be practised on a daily basis, making us more aware of how and why we experience, feel, and accept beauty and risk in our lives. When we reflect on those experiences, we think about what makes us different—and what makes us human.

The Precipice

Author : Toby Ord
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 031648489X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Precipice written by Toby Ord and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker

Creation and Humanity

Author : Ian A. McFarland
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664231357
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Creation and Humanity written by Ian A. McFarland and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major sourcebook provides significant primary readings from the history of Christian theology on the topics of creation and humanity. Beginning with an extended introduction, McFarland fleshes out the topics of creation and humanity in sections such as "God as Creator," "The Human Creature," "Evil and Sin," and "Providence," and provides a brief introduction to each selection that demonstrates its importance and establishes its historical context. This collection will be of special value in classrooms, allowing students to experience firsthand some major works that shaped efforts to forge a sound Christian understanding of creation and humanity.

The Human Capacity for Transformational Change

Author : Valerie A. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136263527
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The Human Capacity for Transformational Change written by Valerie A. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realisation of the power of a collective mind. This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformational change towards a just and sustainable future. It describes how and why our current decision-making on any complex issue is marked by clashes between the different interests involved. More optimistically, the book pursues a mode of thinking that brings together government, specialised and community interests at the local, regional and personal scales in a collective transformation process. Practical examples signal the emergence of a new knowledge tradition that promises to be as powerful as the scientific enlightenment. Written in accessible language, this book will be insightful reading for anyone struggling with transformational change, especially researchers, students and professionals in the fields of administration, governance, environmental management, international development, politics, public health, public law, sociology, and community development

Enhancement Fit for Humanity

Author : Michael Baggot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000486990
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Enhancement Fit for Humanity written by Michael Baggot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what constitutes an enhancement fit for humanity in the age of nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, information technologies, and technologies related to the cognitive sciences. It considers the influence of emergent technology upon our understanding of human nature and the impact on future generations. Drawing on the Catholic tradition, in particular, the book gathers international contributions from scientific, philosophical, legal, and religious perspectives. Together they offer a positive step in an ongoing dialogue regarding the promises and perils of emergent technology for man’s integral human development.

X-Risk

Author : Thomas Moynihan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913029824
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book X-Risk written by Thomas Moynihan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How humanity came to contemplate its possible extinction. From forecasts of disastrous climate change to prophecies of evil AI superintelligences and the impending perils of genome editing, our species is increasingly concerned with the prospects of its own extinction. With humanity's future on this planet seeming more insecure by the day, in the twenty-first century, existential risk has become the object of a growing field of serious scientific inquiry. But, as Thomas Moynihan shows in X-Risk, this preoccupation is not exclusive to the post-atomic age of global warming and synthetic biology. Our growing concern with human extinction itself has a history. Tracing this untold story, Moynihan revisits the pioneers who first contemplated the possibility of human extinction and stages the historical drama of this momentous discovery. He shows how, far from being a secular reprise of religious prophecies of apocalypse, existential risk is a thoroughly modern idea, made possible by the burgeoning sciences and philosophical tumult of the Enlightenment era. In recollecting how we first came to care for our extinction, Moynihan reveals how today's attempts to measure and mitigate existential threats are the continuation of a project initiated over two centuries ago, which concerns the very vocation of the human as a rational, responsible, and future-oriented being.

Faster Than Light

Author : Marilyn Nelson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147354
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Faster Than Light written by Marilyn Nelson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities. Poems include the stories of historical figures like Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy lynched in 1955, and the inhabitants of Seneca Village, an African American community razed in 1857 for the creation of Central Park. "Bivouac in a Storm" tells the story of a group of young soldiers, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, as they trained near Biloxi, Mississippi, "marching in summer heat / thick as blackstrap molasses, under trees / haunted by whippings." Later pieces range from the poet's travels in Africa, Europe, and Polynesia, to poems written in collaboration with Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, a former Benedictine monk and the subject of Nelson's playful fictional fantasy sequence, "Adventure-Monk!" Both personal and historical, these poems remain grounded in everyday details but reach toward spiritual and moral truths.

Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes

Author : Gérard Deledalle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110854570
Total Pages : 1794 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes written by Gérard Deledalle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Signs of Humanity / L'homme et ses signes".

Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society

Author : Krijn Pansters
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111453073
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society written by Krijn Pansters and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Conversion in Scripture, Self, and Society offers a broad – historical, theological, and philosophical – reflection on the phenomenon of moral conversion. Examining life-changing transformations within trajectories of spiritual and moral growth, the contributors to this volume show how individuals move, or should move, in one way or another, away from the pursuit of solipsistic satisfactions, through the practice of self-awareness and the performance of social attentiveness, toward the prioritization of shared values. Together, they address the difficulty of realizing in selves and societies some sort of definitive moral conversion – of final turn toward the truly good. Contributors are: David Couturier, Matthew Dugandzic, Erik Eynikel, Aaron Gies, Patrick Jones, Angela Knobel, Daniel Lightsey, Peter Lovas, Giulia Lovison, Krijn Pansters, Hanna Roose, Anton ten Klooster, Willem Marie Speelman, Mark Therrien, Luke Togni, Brian Treanor, Louke van Wensveen, Archibald van Wieringen, and Jamie Washam.

Humanity and Ukraine

Author : Oksana Koshulko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666960535
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Humanity and Ukraine written by Oksana Koshulko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity and Ukraine: Resistance through Language, Culture, and Taking up of Armsis dedicated to a nation under siege, the Ukrainian heroes, who stood up to fight for the freedom and independence of Ukraine and to resist the Russian occupiers when the rest of the world believed in the embedded myth that the Russian army was the 'second army in the world.' This recounts the legendary courageous fighting and resistance by the Ukrainian military and civilians against the Russian invaders waging war on Ukraine. The book analyses the long history of Ukraine, starting with Kyivan Rus, when the Russian invaders tried to steal and rewrite Ukrainian history, through to the current situation of threat to Ukrainian culture and educational institutions, including museums, archives, and libraries. All of this continue to be under systematic and ruthless enemy fire and are subjected to looting and destruction by the occupiers. Ukrainians continue to act to create archival exhibitions, to resist and above all to fight. The book also analyses the plight of Ukrainian war refugees in host countries, of the Crimean Tatars in Russian occupied Crimea and the prospects for Ukraine as a thriving country within Europe and the world after the Ukrainian victory.

Teaching, Friendship and Humanity

Author : Nuraan Davids
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811572127
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Teaching, Friendship and Humanity written by Nuraan Davids and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book extends liberal understandings in and about democratic citizenship education in relation to university pedagogy, more specifically higher teaching and learning. The authors’ argument is in defence of cultivating humanity through (higher) educational encounters on the basis of virtues that connect with the idea of love. Unlike romantic and erotic love, the book examines love in relation to educational encounters whereby humans or citizens can engage autonomously, deliberatively andresponsibly, yet lovingly. The rationale for focussing on the notion of philia (love) in educational encounters, the authors argue, is that doing so allows our current understandings of such encounters to be expanded beyond mere talk of reasonable engagements—autonomous action, deliberative iterations, and simple action—toward emotive enactments that could enhance human relations in educational encounters.

The Irish Homestead

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Homestead written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Our Humanity

Author : Valerii Aleksandrovich Kuvakin
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 161592955X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Our Humanity written by Valerii Aleksandrovich Kuvakin and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian philosopher Valery A. Kuvakin reviews the major principles of humanism as the starting point for an overall definition of humanity. Humanism, as definied by Kuvakin, is based on the scientific method, seeks objective knowledge, is anthropocentric, uses reason as its guiding principle, and extolls common sense based on scientifically verifiable knowledge without any restriction from tradition, customs, political systems, or religion. Arrayed against these humanist values are the "pseudovalues" of the paranormal and irrational faith, and the "antivalues" of greed, corruption, addiction, violence, and environmental destruction. Avoiding both the heaven of our fantasies and the hell of our own making, humanism offers the 21st century the basis for establishing a just, free, and sane society.

God, Humanity and the Cosmos

Author : Christopher Southgate
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567486273
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book God, Humanity and the Cosmos written by Christopher Southgate and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors include: Christopher Southgate John Hedley Brooke Celia Deane-Drummond Paul D. Murray Michael Robert Negus Lawrence Osborn Michael Poole Jacqui Stewart Fraser Watts David Wilkinson This fully revised and updated edition of God, Humanity and the Cosmos includes new chapters by John Hedley Brooke, Paul D. Murray and David Wilkinson. In addition to a systematic exploration of contemporary perspectives in physics, evolutionary biology and psychology as they relate to theological descriptions of the universe, humanity and consciousness, the book now provides a thorough survey of the theological, philosophical and historical issues underpinning the science-religion debate. Contributors also examine such issues as theological responses to the ecological crisis and to biotechnology; how science is treated and valued in education; and the relation of science to Islamic thought. Dr Christopher Southgate is Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter.'

A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity

Author : Anders Omstedt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031643267
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical View of the Ocean and Humanity written by Anders Omstedt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology

Author : Joseph R. Carvalko Jr.
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030264076
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Conserving Humanity at the Dawn of Posthuman Technology written by Joseph R. Carvalko Jr. and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the latest scientific and technological developments likely to shape our post-human future. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the author argues that we stand at the precipice of an evolutionary change caused by genetic engineering and anatomically embedded digital and informational technologies. The author delves into current scientific initiatives that will lead to the emergence of super smart individuals with unique creative capacities. He draws on technology, psychology and philosophy to consider humans-as-they-are relative to autonomy, creativity, and their place in a future shared with ‘post humans.’ The author discusses the current state of bioethics and technology law, both which policymakers, beset by a torrent of revolutionary advances in bioengineering, are attempting to steer. Significantly, Carvalko addresses why we must both preserve the narratives that brought us to this moment and continue to express our humanity through, music, art, and literature, to ensure that, as a uniquely creative species, we don’t simply vanish in the ether of an evolution brought about by our own technology.

The Dramatizing of Theology

Author : Matthew S. Farlow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153260386X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Dramatizing of Theology written by Matthew S. Farlow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Farlow traces the thoughts of Balthasar and Barth so as to enter into theological truth of God's Being-in-Act. This exploration embarks on a journey into the reality of our Triune God who has engaged his creation so as to elicit fellow actors. God seeking out humanity is God with us, a truth that not only informs our theological endeavors, but invites us into the dramatic performance of reconciliation. As Farlow illumines, God is an acting God who seeks fellow participants in his ongoing drama of salvation. Through the dramatizing of theology, the church and her theologians come to realize God's threefold movement--revelation, invitation and reconciliation. It is a unified act that startles humanity, and thus theology, out of its "spectator's seat," so as to drag it onto the world's stage. As Farlow discusses, it is through the dramatizing of theology that we find ourselves best equipped to participate faithfully in the role of a lifetime.