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The Seductiveness of Virtue

Author : John J. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056766032X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Seductiveness of Virtue written by John J. Fitzgerald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John J. Fitzgerald addresses here one of life's enduring questions - how to achieve personal fulfillment and more specifically whether we can do so through ethical conduct. He focuses on two significant twentieth-century theologians - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Pope John Paul II - seeing both as fitting dialogue partners, given the former's influence on the Second Vatican Council's deliberations on the Jews, and the latter's groundbreaking overtures to the Jews in the wake of his experiences in Poland before and during World War II. Fitzgerald demonstrates that Heschel and John Paul II both suggest that doing good generally leads us to growth in various components of personal fulfillment, such as happiness, meaning in life, and freedom from selfish desires. There are, however, some key differences between the two theologians - John Paul II emphasizes more strongly the relationship between acting well and attaining eternal life, whereas Heschel wrestles more openly with the possibility that religious commitment ultimately involves anxiety and sadness. By examining historical and contemporary analyses, including the work of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the philosopher Peter Singer, and some present-day psychologists, Fitzgerald builds a narrative that shows the promise and limits of Heschel's and John Paul II's views.

Acinemas

Author : Graham Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474418953
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Acinemas written by Graham Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most extensive examination yet of control across disciplines and cultural modes of expression âe"" showing that control is the cultural logic of the 21st century.

The Seductiveness of Virtue

Author : John J. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Bloomsbury T & T Clark
ISBN 13 : 9780567669759
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Seductiveness of Virtue written by John J. Fitzgerald and published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark. This book was released on 2017 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John J. Fitzgerald addresses here one of life's enduring questions - how to achieve personal fulfillment and more specifically whether we can do so through ethical conduct. He focuses on two significant twentieth-century theologians - Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Pope John Paul II - seeing both as fitting dialogue partners, given the former's influence on the Second Vatican Council's deliberations on the Jews, and the latter's groundbreaking overtures to the Jews in the wake of his experiences in Poland before and during World War II. Fitzgerald demonstrates that Heschel and John Paul II generally suggest that doing good leads us toward various components of personal fulfilment, such as happiness, meaning in life, and freedom. There are, however, some key differences between the two theologians - John Paul II emphasizes more strongly the relationship between acting well and attaining eternal life, whereas Heschel wrestles more openly with the possibility that religious commitment ultimately involves anxiety and sadness. By examining historical and contemporary analyses, including the work of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the philosopher Peter Singer, and the field of positive psychology, Fitzgerald builds a narrative that shows the promise and limits of Heschel's and John Paul II views.

Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy

Author : Yong Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350265799
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy written by Yong Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major figure in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Ernest Sosa is a pioneer of contemporary virtue epistemology. Engaging with his important work for the first time, a team of renowned scholars of Chinese philosophy bring Western analytic epistemology into dialogue with themes and issues in the history of the Chinese tradition in order to reveal multiple points of connection. Drawing on thinkers and texts from Confucianism, Daoism, and Chinese Buddhism, chapters explore issues central to virtue epistemology, such as the reliabilist and responsibilist divide, the distinction between virtues constitutive of knowledge and virtues auxiliary to knowledge, epistemic competence, and the role of testimony. Including Sosa's constructive and systematic responses to each scholar's interpretation of his work, this volume demonstrates the value of cross-cultural dialogue, advancing the field of virtue epistemology, and paving the way for further engagement between philosophical traditions.

Culture and Politics

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349629650
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Politics written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science. Culture and Politics: A Reader explores this concept by compiling previously-published works that focus on the core themes of political culture research: Concepts and Applications, Culture and Globalization, Popular Culture, Civil Society and Social Capital, Social Movements and Collective Identity, Culture and Political Change, and Culture and Rationality. Each section includes general and article introductions as well as a 'suggested reading' list. Culture and Politics: A Reader provides a handy resource for students and teachers at both the graduate and under-graduate level.

Worshipping Virtues

Author : Emma Stafford
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1914535243
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Worshipping Virtues written by Emma Stafford and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greeks, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstractions claim our attention. This study examines the logic, the psychology and the practice of Greeks who worshipped these personifications with temples and sacrifices, and addressed them with hymns and prayers. Emma Stafford conducts case-studies of deified 'abstractions', such as Peitho (Persuasion), Eirene (Peace) and Hygieia (Health). She also considers general questions of Greek psychology, such as why so many of these figures were female. Modern scholars have asked, Did the Greeks believe their own myths? This study contributes importantly to the debate, by exploring widespread and creative popular theology in the historical period.

Blashfield's Instructions to Juries

Author : De Witt Clinton Blashfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Blashfield's Instructions to Juries written by De Witt Clinton Blashfield and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dietrich Icon

Author : Gerd Gemünden
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822338192
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Dietrich Icon written by Gerd Gemünden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCollection of essays on film icon Marlene Dietrich./div

Law Lectures

Author : Samuel Fox Mordecai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1430 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law Lectures written by Samuel Fox Mordecai and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Four Virtues

Author : Tobin Hart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1582704473
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Four Virtues written by Tobin Hart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world with greater knowledge, more advanced technology, and more groundbreaking innovation than ever at our fingertips, we are still looking to find our way. We are still searching for that essential insight on how to lead a really good life. By drawing from across tradition and time, from neuroscience to ancient wisdom, Tobin Hart reveals that we all possess four essential virtues--Presence, Heart, Wisdom, Creation--that help us to build, balance, and integrate our psychological and spiritual life on earth.

Beauty, Violence, Representation

Author : Lisa A. Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134102062
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Beauty, Violence, Representation written by Lisa A. Dickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections of these questions and representing a spectrum of voices, the volume takes its place in a growing body of recent critical work that takes violence and representation as its object. This collection offers a unique opportunity, however, to address a significant gap in the critical field, for it seeks to interrogate specifically the nexus or interface between beauty and violence. While other texts on violence make use of regimes of representation as their subject matter and consider the effects of aestheticization, beauty as a critical category is conspicuously absent. Furthermore, the book aims to "rehabilitate" beauty, implicitly conceptualized as politically or ethically regressive by postmodern anti-aesthetics cultural positions, and further facilitate its come-back into critical discourse.

Xenophon’s Virtues

Author : Gabriel Danzig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111313573
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Xenophon’s Virtues written by Gabriel Danzig and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Plato’s and Aristotle’s theories of virtue have received extensive scholarly attention, less work has been done on Xenophon’s portraits of virtue and on his attitude towards the theoretical issues connected with it. And yet, Xenophon offers one of the best sources we have for thinking about virtue in ancient Greece, because he combines the analytical interests of a Socratic with a historian’s interest in real life. Until recently, scholars of Xenophon tended to focus either on the historiographical writings or on the philosophical writings (chiefly Memorabilia, with some attention to the other Socratic writings and Hiero). Cyropaedia was treated as a separate entity, and Xenophon’s short and more technical treatises were generally studied only by those with particular interest in their specialized topics (such as horsemanship, hunting, and Athenian finances). But recent work by Vincent Azoulay and by Vivienne Gray have shown the essential unity of his writings. This volume continues this pan-Xenophontic trend by studying the virtues across Xenophon’s oeuvre and connecting them with a wide range of Greek literature, from Homer and the tragedians to Herodotus and Thucydides, the orators, Plato, and Aristotle.

Roman Political Thought

Author : Jed W. Atkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108619746
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Roman Political Thought written by Jed W. Atkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the Romans teach us about politics? This thematic introduction to Roman political thought shows how the Roman world developed political ideas of lasting significance, from the consequential constitutional notions of the separation of powers, political legitimacy, and individual rights to key concepts in international relations, such as imperialism, just war theory, and cosmopolitanism. Jed W. Atkins relates these and many other important ideas to Roman republicanism, traces their evolution across all major periods of Roman history, and describes Christianity's important contributions to their development. Using the politics and political thought of the United States as a case study, he argues that the relevance of Roman political thought for modern liberal democracies lies in the profound mixture of ideas both familiar and foreign to us that shape and enliven Roman republicanism. Accessible to students and non-specialists, this book provides an invaluable guide to Roman political thought and its enduring legacies.

The American State Reports

Author : Abraham Clark Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American State Reports written by Abraham Clark Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mysticism in Maharashtra

Author : R. D. Ranade
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805767
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism in Maharashtra written by R. D. Ranade and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book analyses and evaluates the mystical trends observable in the writings of mystics in Medieval India with particular emphasis on the mystics of Maharashtra. We get a fair idea of the spiritual heaven introduced into Indian thought by the writers such as Ramananda, Kabir, Gauranga, Jnanesvara, Namadeva, Ekanatha, Tukarama, Ramadasa and others. The list exhausts all types of mysticism that are known to exist. The book is rather a study of comparative mysticism and it draws striking parallelism between the mystics of Maharashtra and the Western mystics like Plotinus, Eckhart, Dante and others."

Mysticism in India

Author : R. D. Ranade
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438416865
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism in India written by R. D. Ranade and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1983-06-30 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism in India is a complete and informative description of the teachings, works, and lives of the great poet-saints of Maharashtra written by a scholar and professor who was also a mystic. Jnaneshwar, Namadev, Tukaram, Eknath, Ramdas, and the other saints discussed belonged to the great devotional religious movement that spread through medieval India. With the exception of Ramdas, they all belonged to the tradition of the Varkaris, the most popular sect in contemporary Maharashtra. Their compositions exemplify the universality of their faith and practice, and are recognized as literary treasures. Ranade was primarily interested in the poet-saints as mystics—teachers of the perennial philosophy—whose experiences have general metaphysical and religious implications. At the heart of his classic is a comprehensive, objective presentation of the thought of these saints, augmented by a deep appreciation of their value and relevance to present-day scholars and seekers. Mysticism in India is the only major study in English of medieval Indian religious literature. The book's enduring value has been enhanced by the addition of a foreword by a scholar currently working in Marathi literature, and a preface by a present-day poet-saint of Maharashtra.

The Virtues of Poetry

Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970672
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Virtues of Poetry written by James Longenbach and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating look at the many forms of poetry's essential excellence by James Longenbach, a writer with "an ear as subtle and assured as any American poet now writing" (John Koethe) "This book proposes some of the virtues to which the next poem might aspire: boldness, change, compression, dilation, doubt, excess, inevitability, intimacy, otherness, particularity, restraint, shyness, surprise, and worldliness. The word ‘virtue' came to English from Latin, via Old French, and while it has acquired a moral valence, the word in its earliest uses gestured toward a magical or transcendental power, a power that might be embodied by any particular substance or act. With vices I am not concerned. Unlike the short-term history of taste, which is fueled by reprimand or correction, the history of art moves from achievement to achievement. Contemporary embodiments of poetry's virtues abound, and only our devotion to a long history of excellence allows us to recognize them." –from James Longenbach's preface The Virtues of Poetry is a resplendent and ultimately moving work of twelve interconnected essays, each of which describes the way in which a particular excellence is enacted in poetry. Longenbach closely reads poems by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, Bishop, and Ashbery (among others), sometimes exploring the ways in which these writers transmuted the material of their lives into art, and always emphasizing that the notions of excellence we derive from art are fluid, never fixed. Provocative, funny, and astute, The Virtues of Poetry is indispensable for readers, teachers, and writers. Longenbach reminds us that poetry delivers meaning in exacting ways, and that it is through its precision that we experience this art's lasting virtues.