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Terrible Virtue

Author : Ellen Feldman
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780062407566
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Terrible Virtue written by Ellen Feldman and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today. The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and a mother worn down by thirteen children, Margaret Sanger vowed her life would be different. Trained as a nurse, she fought for social justice beside labor organizers, anarchists, socialists, and other progressives, eventually channeling her energy to one singular cause: legalizing contraception. It was a battle that would pit her against puritanical, patriarchal lawmakers, send her to prison again and again, force her to flee to England, and ultimately change the lives of women across the country and around the world. This complex enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating—a competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom. With cameos by such legendary figures as Emma Goldman, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, H. G. Wells, and the love of Margaret’s life, Havelock Ellis, this richly imagined portrait of a larger-than-life woman is at once sympathetic to her suffering and unsparing of her faults. Deeply insightful, Terrible Virtue is Margaret Sanger’s story as she herself might have told it.

Virtue

Author : Gordon Loud
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105818306
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Virtue written by Gordon Loud and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do billions of people readily embrace belief in the virtue of religious faith? Explore the virtues we value and seek to uphold, and discover the role religion and politics play in our beliefs concerning virtue. Our virtuous aims lie at the heart of our manner of examining and method of questioning what we hold to be true concerning the world and religious faith. VIRTUE presents an opportunity for readers to examine religious faith and its measure while it lays bare our desires for and pursuit of virtue. From a position of clarity concerning our manner of thinking and beliefs, the focus on virtue is directed toward universal virtues we can embrace, value, and pursue in our daily living for the benefits they bestow. Where your virtue lies will shock your faith and will challenge you to embrace yourself and others in a better way.

Reclaiming Virtue

Author : John Bradshaw
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553095927
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Virtue written by John Bradshaw and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.

Virtue

Author : Hermione Hoby
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593188608
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Virtue written by Hermione Hoby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Summer Must Read by Wall Street Journal, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Esquire, Bustle, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, and more “[Hoby] might have just written the defining New York City novel of our fraught, socially anxious, and politically tumultuous times.” —Interview “Intense and addictive.” —New York Times A powerful novel of youth, desire, and moral conflict, in which a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour—at terrible cost. Arriving in New York City for an internship at an elite but fading magazine, Luca feels invisible: smart but not worldly, privileged but broke, and uncertain how to navigate a new era of social change. Among his peers is Zara, a young Black woman whose sharp wit and frank views on injustice create tension in the office, especially in the wake of a shock election that’s irrevocably destabilized American life. In the months that follow, as the streets of New York fill with pink-hatted protesters and the magazine faces a changing of the guard, Luca is taken under the wing of an attractive and wealthy white couple—Paula, a prominent artist, and Jason, her filmmaker husband—whose lifestyle he finds both alien and alluring. With the coming of summer, Luca is swept up in the fever dream of their marriage, accepting an invitation to join the couple and their children at their beach house, and nurturing an infatuation both frustrating and dangerous. Only after he learns of a spectacular tragedy in the city he has left behind does he begin to realize the moral consequences of his allegiances. In language at once lyrical and incisive, Virtue offers a clear-eyed, unsettling story of the allure of privilege and the costs of complacency, from a writer of astonishing acuity and vision.

The First Virtue

Author : Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743421361
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The First Virtue written by Michael Jan Friedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insidious plot for revenge has spanned several years in the life of Jean-Luc Picard, but how did this merciless vendetta get started? Like a double helix curling back on itself, the final answer lies at the very beginning... A series of terrorist attacks have heightened tensions between two alien races, bringing an entire sector to the brink of interplanetary war. While Picard, captain of the U.S.S. Stargazer, struggles to keep the peace, Lieutenant Commander Jack Crusher must team up with a Vulcan officer named Tuvok to uncover the hidden architect of the attacks, but the outcome of their quest would breed dire consequences for the future.

The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics

Author : Daniel C. Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107469775
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics written by Daniel C. Russell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics. They examine the theoretical structure of virtue ethics and its place in contemporary moral theory and other topics discussed include the history of virtue-based approaches to ethics, what makes these approaches distinctive, what they can say about specific practical issues and where we can expect them to go in the future. This Companion will be useful to students of virtue ethics and the history of ethics and to others who want to understand how virtue ethics is changing the face of contemporary moral philosophy.

Curiosity as an Epistemic Virtue

Author : Nenad Miščević
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030571033
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Curiosity as an Epistemic Virtue written by Nenad Miščević and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores curiosity from a normative epistemological viewpoint. Taking into account recent developments in the psychology of curiosity, as well as research on the nature and motivation of scientific inquiry, Miščević identifies curiosity as a positive and vital character trait. Key topics covered include: · Curiosity as a subject in the history of philosophy · Curiosity as a possible ethical virtue · The importance of curiosity about oneself · Whether curiosity is good in itself or only as a means to an end (e.g. in the pursuit of truth). The book begins with a brief historical overview, before turning to the nature of curiosity from both a psychological and philosophical viewpoint. Curiosity is revealed as a crucial instrument in the advancement of science and wisdom, as well as within the wider picture of meaningful human life. Miščević skilfully defends the idea that curiosity motivates and organises our cognitive abilities, playing the central role in our cognitive lives.

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author : Justin Oakley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139432184
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles written by Justin Oakley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professionals, it is said, have no use for simple lists of virtues and vices. The complexities and constraints of professional roles create peculiar moral demands on the people who occupy them, and traits that are vices in ordinary life are praised as virtues in the context of professional roles. Should this disturb us, or is it naive to presume that things should be otherwise? Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles. They provide insights into the central notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical professional-client relationships would be like.

After Virtue

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623569818
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

Virtue and Action

Author : Rosalind Hursthouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192895842
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Virtue and Action written by Rosalind Hursthouse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of Rosalind Hursthouse's essays on Aristotle, virtue ethics, and social philosophy. These articles provide valuable context and clarification for much of her more famous work while drawing attention to new avenues of philosophical investigation that Hursthouse pursued. Hursthouse's work played an integral role in establishing virtue ethics as a distinctive approach in ethical theory. This collection includes essays on the development of virtue in children, what the Aristotelian practically wise person knows, how virtue ethicists can inform discussions about environmental and animal ethics, what the starting point for virtue politics should be in a contemporary political context, and how human nature and ethical naturalism could provide the foundation for a virtue ethical system.

Intelligent Virtue

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199228787
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Intelligent Virtue written by Julia Annas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Annas offers a new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. She argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of the kind we find in someone exercising an everyday practical skill, such as farming, building, or playing the piano. This helps us to see virtue as part of an agent's happiness or flourishing.

Virtue Falls

Author : Christina Dodd
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250028418
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Virtue Falls written by Christina Dodd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twenty-three years ago, four year old Elizabeth Banner witnessed her mother's brutal murder in her home in Virtue Falls, Washington, but has no memory of it. Her father was convicted of the crime, but he was innocent and the killer is still out there. And her investigation could provoke another bloody murder--her own"--

Virtue Capitalists

Author : Hannah Forsyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009206486
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Virtue Capitalists written by Hannah Forsyth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious study of the making of the professional middle class in the Anglophone world from c.1870 to 2008.

The Poky Little Puppy

Author : Janette Sebring Lowrey
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0375861297
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Poky Little Puppy written by Janette Sebring Lowrey and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night a puppy,who is always late coming home finds there is no dessert for him. On board pages.

The Virtue of Loyalty

Author : Troy Jollimore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197612652
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Virtue of Loyalty written by Troy Jollimore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virtue of Loyalty presents ten new academic essays on the topic of loyalty considered as a virtue, written by scholars from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, law, religious studies, empirical psychology, and child development. Many of the essays are concerned with the issue of whether loyalty is a virtue, and under what conditions. Others confront questions pertaining to the psychological traits and commitments that accompany or enable loyalty.

Socrates' Education to Virtue

Author : Mark J. Lutz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791436547
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Socrates' Education to Virtue written by Mark J. Lutz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-02-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Plato's dialogues contain a surprisingly neglected account of Socrates' education about the love of noble virtue and that recovering this education could help broaden and deepen liberalism's moral and political horizon.

A Return to Modesty

Author : Wendy Shalit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476765170
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book A Return to Modesty written by Wendy Shalit and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of A Return to Modesty reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty. When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically critique the "hook-up" scene and outline the harms of making sexuality so public. Today, with social media increasingly blurring the line between public and private life, and with child exploitation on the rise, the concept of modesty is more relevant than ever. Updated with a new preface that addresses the unique problems facing society now, A Return to Modesty shows why "the lost virtue" of modesty is not a hang-up that we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct to be celebrated. A Return to Modesty is a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune "Baby, It’s Cold Outside." Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery, but a natural instinct—and one that may be able to save us from ourselves.