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Remote Virtue

Author : Jen Letherer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Remote Virtue written by Jen Letherer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to media literacy from a Christian perspective provides the tools to find and assess the beneficial—or harmful—ideologies depicted in notable films, programs, and trends. Television and movies shape popular culture, with audiences often unaware of how media messages influence the way they think, act, and view the world. In this enlightening guide, author Jen Letherer interprets film and television shows from a Christian standpoint, revealing how beliefs and values portrayed on the big and small screens often impact the moral conduct of daily viewers. This book provides the tools for Christians to discern the implicit and explicit messages found within this medium, and shows how motion pictures can improve or erode religious principles and a spiritual way of life. In a conversational tone, the work combines classic film theory, an assessment of story structure, and faith-based film criticism to delve into meaning and interpretations of popular movies and shows. Highlighted television programs include Top Chef, Modern Family, Downton Abbey, and The Walking Dead. The book also features films like Citizen Kane, Thelma and Louise, Star Wars, Inception, and The Hunger Games. This fascinating critique prompts media consumers to analyze the messages that their favorite broadcast programs send, consider if those messages are in line with their own values, and align their viewing choices with their personal beliefs.

Virtue in Virtual Spaces

Author : Louisa Conwill
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Virtue in Virtual Spaces written by Louisa Conwill and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore new modes of creation to bring virtue back into virtual spaces. At its best, the internet channels the world into a global village of sorts, where digital citizens learn from each other, explore new modes of creation, and help others work through dilemmas in both physical and virtual spaces. Virtue in Virtual Spaces argues that the internet doesn't have to be the cultural wasteland of click-bait, partisan politics, and vulgar content that we see too often today. Technology has tremendous potential for good because of the inherent goodness of human creation and creativity which can be achieved through the development and use of technology. The authors draw from writing on virtue ethics and Catholic Social Teaching to demonstrate this potential goodness of technology. Eight of the main themes of Catholic Social Teaching are used to build a framework for designing technology to promote human flourishing. In this book, readers will engage with the philosophies behind their favorite social media platforms, examine how the design features in these platforms shape habits and imagination, and gain dialogue-based skills to bring virtue back into virtual spaces.

Virtue’s Reasons

Author : Noell Birondo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131531424X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Virtue’s Reasons written by Noell Birondo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection sheds light on precisely how virtues and reasons are related to each other and what can be learned by exploring this relationship. The first section analyzes how the virtues may be related to, or linked with, normative reasons in ways that improve our understanding of what constitutes virtuous character and ethical agency. The second section explores the reasons moral agents have for cultivating the virtues of character and how the virtues impact moral responsiveness or development. The final section examines how reasons can be employed in understanding the nature of virtue, and how specific virtues, like modesty and practical wisdom, interact with reasons.

Killing by Remote Control

Author : Bradley Jay Strawser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199339791
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Killing by Remote Control written by Bradley Jay Strawser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from this new form of killing by remote control. Many, for example, are troubled by the impact that killing through the mediated mechanisms of a drone half a world away has on the pilots who fly them. What happens to concepts such as bravery and courage when a war-fighter controlling a drone is never exposed to any physical danger? This dramatic shift in risk also creates conditions of extreme asymmetry between those who wage war and those they fight. What are the moral implications of such asymmetry on the military that employs such drones and the broader questions for war and a hope for peace in the world going forward? How does this technology impact the likely successes of counter-insurgency operations or humanitarian interventions? Does not such weaponry run the risk of making war too easy to wage and tempt policy makers into killing when other more difficult means should be undertaken? Killing By Remote Control directly engages all of these issues. Some essays discuss the just war tradition and explore whether the rise of drones necessitates a shift in the ways we think about the ethics of war in the broadest sense. Others scrutinize more specific uses of drones, such as their present use in what are known as "targeted killing" by the United States. The book similarly tackles the looming prospect of autonomous drones and the many serious moral misgivings such a future portends. "A path-breaking volume! BJ Strawser, an internationally known analyst of drone ethics, has assembled a broad spectrum of civilian and military experts to create the first book devoted to this hot-button issue. This important work represents vanguard thinking on weapon systems that make headlines nearly every day. It will catalyze debates policy-makers and military leaders must have in order to preserve peace and protect the innocent. - James Cook, Department Chair/Head of Philosophy, US Air Force Academy "The use of 'drones' (remotely piloted air vehicles) in war has grown exponentially in recent years. Clearly, this evolution presages an enormous explosion of robotic vehicles in war - in the air, on the ground, and on and under the sea. This collection of essays provides an invaluable contribution to what promises to be one of the most fundamental challenges to our assumptions about ethics and warfare in at least the last century. The authors in this anthology approach the ethical challenges posed by these rapidly advancing technologies from a wide range of perspectives. Cumulatively, they represent an essential overview of the fundamental ethical issues involved in their development. This collection makes a key contribution to an urgently needed dialogue about the moral questions involved." - Martin L. Cook, Adm. James B. Stockdale Professor of Professional Military Ethics, Professor Leadership & Ethics, College of Operational & Strategic Leadership, U.S. Naval War College

Growing in Virtue

Author : William C. Mattison III
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647123291
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Growing in Virtue written by William C. Mattison III and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling analysis tying the work of Aquinas to contemporary literature on virtue Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the virtues. Though popular literature provides instruction on attaining and growing in virtue, it lacks careful scholarly analysis of what exactly these good habits are in which we grow. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Mattison offers a robust account of habits, including what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. He draws on Aquinas to carefully delineate the commonalities and differences between natural (acquired) virtues and graced (infused) virtues. Along the way, Mattison discusses the distinction between disposition and habit; the role of “custom” in virtue formation; the nature of virtuous passions; the distinct contribution of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to graced life; explanations for persistent activity after the loss of virtue; and the possibility of coexistence of the infused and acquired virtues in the same person. For readers interested in virtue and morality from a philosophical perspective and scholars of theological ethics and moral theology in particular, Mattison offers compelling arguments from the work of Aquinas explicitly connected to contemporary scholarship in philosophical virtue ethics.

Broadband Applications and the Digital Home

Author : John Turnbull
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 0852964285
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Broadband Applications and the Digital Home written by John Turnbull and published by IET. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the technological challenges and applications of providing fast, 'always-on' internet connections to the home. Current delivery mechanisms of broadband into and around the home are explored in depth.

Virtue, Vice, and Value

Author : Thomas Hurka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195158652
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Virtue, Vice, and Value written by Thomas Hurka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurka's book puts forth a comprehensive theoretical account of moral virtue and vice. More specifically, it gives an account of the intrinsic goodness of virtue, and intrinsic evil of vice, that can fit into a consequentialist moral theory.

History of Latin Christianity

Author : Henry Hart Milman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752582448
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book History of Latin Christianity written by Henry Hart Milman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicolas V. In nine volumes.

The Dream of the Red Chamber (World's Classics Series)

Author : Cao Xueqin
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027246938
Total Pages : 1127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Dream of the Red Chamber (World's Classics Series) written by Cao Xueqin and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Dream of the Red Chamber provides a detailed, episodic record of life in the two branches of the wealthy, aristocratic Jia clan—the Rongguo House and the Ningguo House—who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital. Their ancestors were made Dukes and given imperial titles, and as the novel begins the two houses are among the most illustrious families in the city. One of the clan's offspring is made a Royal Consort, and a lush landscaped garden is built to receive her visit. In the novel's frame story, a sentient Stone, abandoned by the goddess Nüwa when she mended the heavens aeons ago, begs a Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk to take it with them to see the world.

Hung Lou Mêng

Author : Xueqin Cao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hung Lou Mêng written by Xueqin Cao and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Latin Christianity

Author : Henry Hart Milman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book History of Latin Christianity written by Henry Hart Milman and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Latin Christianity Including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas 5. by Henry Hart Milman

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book History of Latin Christianity Including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas 5. by Henry Hart Milman written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of the Stone

Author : Cao Xueqin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442945109
Total Pages : 1788 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Stone written by Cao Xueqin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of the Stone" is considered one of the classics of Chinese literature. it was composed in the middle of the eighteenth century at the time of Qing Dynasty and depicts the social structure of China at that time. The novel gives a detailed description of the lives of characters and also describes the nature of desire and delusion. Mesmerizing!

Dreaming across Languages and Cultures

Author : Laurence Wong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868280
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming across Languages and Cultures written by Laurence Wong and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming across Languages and Cultures: A Study of the Literary Translations of the Hong lou meng (also called The Dream of the Red Chamber, Red Chamber Dream, or The Story of the Stone) is a groundbreaking monograph in translation studies. Integrating theory with practice, it examines, analyses, compares, and evaluates 14 versions of the greatest Chinese novel in five major European languages, namely, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. In this study, translation, linguistic, literary, and semiotic theories, as well as the author’s own experience of translating Dante and Shakespeare, are drawn on. Though primarily aimed at scholars specializing in translation and in Hong lou meng studies, the book also introduces students of Chinese literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies to new interdisciplinary perspectives. By illustrating salient points with lively and interesting examples, too, it enables the non-specialist to see the fascinating intricacies of language and translation, as well as the complex relationship between translation and culture. In view of its new approach to a new topic, of its many impressive insights, and, above all, of the amazing depth and breadth of its investigation, Dreaming across Languages and Cultures is truly monumental.

Brahman and Dao

Author : Ithamar Theodor
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739188143
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Brahman and Dao written by Ithamar Theodor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present geopolitical rise of India and China evokes much interest in the comparative study of these two ancient Asian cultures. There are various studies comparing Western and Indian philosophies and religions, and there are similar works comparing Chinese and Western philosophy and religion. However, so far there is no systemic comparative study of Chinese and Indian philosophies and religions. Therefore there is a need to fill this gap. As such, Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion is a pioneering volume in that it highlights possible bridges between these two great cultures and complex systems of thought, with seventeen chapters on various Indo-Chinese comparative topics. The book focuses on four themes: metaphysics and soteriology; ethics; body, health and spirituality; and language and culture.

10 Classic Epics

Author : Golgotha Press
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1610424379
Total Pages : 12101 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book 10 Classic Epics written by Golgotha Press and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 12101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 10 classic epics with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Hung Lou Meng - Book 1 by Cao Xueqin Hung Lou Meng - Book 2 by Cao Xueqin Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville The Iliad by Homer (Translated by Samuel Butler) Varney the Vampire by Thomas Preskett Prest War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy DISCLAIMER: There has been concern about the table of contents (or lack thereof) in the ""50 Classic Books"" Series. Golgotha Press has addressed this problem and readers who download the books as of November 2011 can access a functional table of contents by going to the front of the book and paging forward two pages. Because of the size of this book, the ""active"" feature in the conversion is removed. We are trying resolve this problem, but until then, please follow the steps above. If you still experience the problem, please contact us so we can investigate exactly what is happening. Please note, however, that the table of contents does not become active until you purchase the book--preview mode does not currently support active TOC's. We apologize for any confusion or frustration this has caused.

Hung Lou Meng; Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, A Chinese Novel, In Two Books

Author : Xueqin Cao
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387328338
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Hung Lou Meng; Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, A Chinese Novel, In Two Books written by Xueqin Cao and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.