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Author : Ernest Lefever
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Irony Of Virtue written by Ernest Lefever and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They reveal his dramatic transformation from a liberal pacifist during World War II to a human realist.
Author : Reinhold Niebuhr
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226583996
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Irony of American History written by Reinhold Niebuhr and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away . . . the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard.”—President Barack Obama Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr’s masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue. Impassioned, eloquent, and deeply perceptive, Niebuhr’s wisdom will cause readers to rethink their assumptions about right and wrong, war and peace. “The supreme American theologian of the twentieth century.”—Arthur Schlesinger Jr., New York Times “Niebuhr is important for the left today precisely because he warned about America’s tendency—including the left’s tendency—to do bad things in the name of idealism. His thought offers a much better understanding of where the Bush administration went wrong in Iraq.”—Kevin Mattson, The Good Society “Irony provides the master key to understanding the myths and delusions that underpin American statecraft. . . . The most important book ever written on US foreign policy.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, from the Introduction
Author : Daniel A. Morris
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498500757
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Virtue and Irony in American Democracy written by Daniel A. Morris and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What virtues are necessary for democracy to succeed? This book turns to John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr, two of America’s most influential theorists of democracy, to answer this question. Dewey and Niebuhr both implied—although for very different reasons—that humility and mutuality are important virtues for the success of people rule. Not only do these virtues allow people to participate well in their own governance, they also equip us to meet challenges to democracy generated by free-market economic policy and practices. Ironically, though, Dewey and Niebuhr quarreled with each other for twenty years and missed the opportunity to achieve political consensus. In their discourse with each other they failed to become “one out of many,” a task that is distilled in the democratic rallying cry “e pluribus unum.” This failure itself reflects a deficiency in democratic virtue. Thus, exploring the Dewey/Niebuhr debate with attention to their discursive failures reveals the importance of a third virtue: democratic tolerance. If democracy is to succeed, we must cultivate a deeper hospitality toward difference than Dewey and Niebuhr were able to extend to each other.
Author : Peter Augustine Lawler
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stuck with Virtue written by Peter Augustine Lawler and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cloning, gene therapy, stem-cell harvesting--are we on the path to a Huxley-like Brave New World? Not really, argues political philosopher and Kass Commission member Peter Augustine Lawler in Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future, even as he admits that we will likely become more obsessive and anxious and will be subjected to new forms of tyranny. Rather, he contends, human nature is such that the biotechnological world to come, despite the best efforts of its proponents, will still fail to make it possible to feel good without being good. It will be harder, Lawler warns, to be virtuous in the future, because we will be more detached than ever from the natural sources of happiness. But we may take some solace in the fact that virtue will still be the best way to live well with what we really know. With irony and wit, Lawler delivers the good news about the future of the American individual: We're going to remain free, because the modern effort to make increasingly individualistic human beings at home with themselves and their environments through technological progress cannot succeed. That is the truth and promise, concludes Lawler, of a genuinely postmodern conservatism.
Author : Roberta J. Hackel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111712338
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (117 download)
Download or read book De Sade’s quantitative moral universe written by Roberta J. Hackel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "De Sade's quantitative moral universe".
Author : André Comte-Sponville
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805045567
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (455 download)
Download or read book A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues written by André Comte-Sponville and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Simone Weil, by way of Aquinas, Kant, Rilke, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Rawls, among others, Comte-Sponville elaborates on the qualities that constitute the essence and excellence of humankind.
Author : William J. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126259
Total Pages : 1917 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Book of Virtues written by William J. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 1917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.
Author : Philip Cafaro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742578542
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Environmental Virtue Ethics written by Philip Cafaro and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-02-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is one certainty regarding the human relationship with nature-there is no getting away from it. But while a relationship with nature is a given, the nature of that relationship is not. Environmental ethics is the attempt to determine how we ought and ought not relate to the natural environment. A complete environmental ethic requires both an ethic of action and an ethic of character. Environmental virtue ethics is the area of environmental ethics concerned with character. It has been an underappreciated and underdeveloped aspect of environmental ethics-until now. The selections in this collection, consisting of ten original and four reprinted essays by leading scholars in the field, discuss the role that virtue and character have traditional played in environmental discourse, and reflect upon the role that it should play in the future. The selections also discuss the substantive content of the environmental virtues and vices, and apply them to concrete environmental issues and problems. This collection establishes the indispensability of environmental virtue ethics to environmental ethics. It also enhances the breadth and quality of the ongoing discussion of environmental virtue and vice and the role they should play in an adequate environmental ethic.
Author : Howard A. Barnes
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810824386
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Horace Bushnell and the Virtuous Republic written by Howard A. Barnes and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents all major aspects of the life and thought of Horace Bushnell (1802-1876) within the context of 19th-century America.
Author : Robin Lovin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198813562
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr written by Robin Lovin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative Handbook features 38 chapters placing Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) in his historical context to offer readers an appreciation of his insights and how he was received by his contemporaries.
Author : Scott R. Erwin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667617
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Theological Vision of Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History" written by Scott R. Erwin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about Americas role in the world, and commentators with divergent political and religious positions look to his 1952 work, The Irony of American History, in support of their views. In this study, Scott R. Erwin argues that an appreciation of Niebuhrs theological vision is necessary for understanding the full measure of Irony and his perspective on life more broadly. Such a study is important because many individuals reading Irony today fail to acknowledge the central role that his Christian beliefs played in his writings. Niebuhr described his theological vision as being in the battle and above it, and it was this perspective that led Niebuhr, in Irony, to assert that America must both take morally hazardous action in combating the aggression of the Soviet Union and engage in critical self-evaluation to prevent the country from assuming the most odious traits of its Cold War foe. Niebuhr developed his theological vision over the course of the 1930s and 1940s through engagement with Christian doctrine, as most readily seen in his academic works such as The Nature and Destiny of Man, and with current events, as seen in his many journalistic writings during this period. By focusing primarily on Niebuhrs writings between 1931 and 1952, Erwin traces the development of his Christian interpretation of human nature and history, establishes how it informed his theological vision, and reveals how that theological vision underlies his writings on current affairs.
Author : R. Ward Holder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317026985
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Irony of Barack Obama written by R. Ward Holder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the political theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, described by Barack Obama as 'one of my favourite philosophers', this book assesses the challenges facing the President during his first term. It evaluates his success in adhering to Niebuhr's path of 'Christian realism' when faced with the pragmatic demands of domestic and foreign affairs. In 2008 Candidate Obama used the ideas of 'Hope' and 'Change' to inspire voters and secure the presidency. Obama promised change not only regarding America's policies, but even more fundamentally in the nation's political culture. Holder and Josephson describe the foundations of President Obama's Christian faith and the extent to which it has shaped his approach to politics. Their book explores Obama's journey of faith in the context of a broadly Augustinian understanding of faith and politics, examines the tensions between Christian realism and pragmatic progressivism, explains why a Christian realist interpretation is essential to understanding Obama's presidency, and applies this model of understanding to considerations of foreign and domestic policy. By combining this theological and political analysis the book offers a special opportunity to reflect on the relationship between Christian faith and statesmanship, reflections that are missing from current popular discussions of the Obama presidency. Through consideration of Niebuhr's models of the prophet and the statesman, and the more popular alternative of the political evangelist, Holder and Josephson are better able to explain the president's successes and his failures, and to unveil the Augustinian limits of the political life.
Author : John Bussanich
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441112847
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates written by John Bussanich and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring chapters by leading international scholars in Ancient Philosophy, the is a comprehensive one volume reference to guide to Socrates' thought.
Author : Matza, David
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141284360X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Becoming Deviant written by Matza, David and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brook Ziporyn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438448198
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Beyond Oneness and Difference written by Brook Ziporyn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Oneness and Difference considers the development of one of the key concepts of Chinese intellectual history, Li. A grasp of the strange history of this term and its seemingly conflicting implications—as oneness and differentiation, as the knowable and as what transcends knowledge, as the good and as the transcendence of good and bad, as order and as omnipresence—raises questions about the most basic building blocks of our thinking. This exploration began in the book's companion volume, Ironies of Oneness and Difference, which detailed how formative Confucian and Daoist thinkers approached and demarcated concepts of coherence, order, and value, identifying both ironic and non-ironic trends in the elaboration of these core ideas. In the present volume, Brook Ziporyn goes on to examine the implications of Li as they develop in Neo-Daoist metaphysics and in Chinese Buddhism, ultimately becoming foundational to Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism, the orthodox ideology of late imperial China. Ziporyn's interrogation goes beyond analysis to reveal the unsuspected range of human thinking on these most fundamental categories of ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
Author : Daniel J. Treier
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802830749
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Virtue and the Voice of God written by Daniel J. Treier and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology's longest tradition is as a course of study that leads to wisdom. With the growth of the academy, however, theology fell into a fixation with the objective results of science. In this illuminating study Daniel Treier retrieves the older, deeper understanding of theology and connects wisdom in theological education to the theological interpretation of scripture, giving rise to a renewed understanding of the role of virtue in each. Dialoguing with a number of prominent proponents of theological interpretation of scripture, Treier builds on a biblical theology of wisdom that involves the daily lives of all God's people. Ultimately, Treier connects educational discussions of theology and hermeneutical discussions through a trinitarian understanding of wisdom. As a result, the increasingly diverse forms and social locations of theology can be integrated into the mainstream of theological reflection. Filled with interdisciplinary wisdom, Virtue and the Voice of God is a timely recovery of the essential conversation between theological education, virtue, and scriptural interpretation.
Author : Vladimir R. Rossman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110821117
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Perspectives of Irony on Medieval French Literature written by Vladimir R. Rossman and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Perspectives of Irony on Medieval French Literature".
