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Author : Andrew Donald Youpa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Authority, Priority, and the Virtue of Prudence written by Andrew Donald Youpa and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felix R. Livingston
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498575587
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book On the Private and Public Virtues of an Honorable Entrepreneur written by Felix R. Livingston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings on honor, and his observation that a democracy’s definition of honor “stands for the peculiar individual character of that nation before the world,” provide inspiration for an ideal entrepreneurial innovator discussed in this book. Beginning with Aristotle, contributions of the giants of moral, political, and economic thinking are aggregated in a Credo for honorable entrepreneurs who are dedicated to freedom and general human flourishing. The Credo’s maxims and duties can help entrepreneurs prevent a separation of the honorable and the useful, which is a moral challenge faced by many leaders in all parts of society. Like-minded individuals who share this vision can rebalance power and repair America’s triune social order, while creating wealth and a surplus that can benefit the poorest among us.
Author : Paul J. Wadell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442209747
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Happiness and the Christian Moral Life written by Paul J. Wadell and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happiness and the Christian Moral Life introduces students to Christian Ethics looking at ethics as a path to the "good life" and happiness, rather than a strict set of rules or regulations. Revised and updated throughout, the second edition maintains the book's distinctive focus on happiness. Each chapter now features a list of suggested readings to point students and instructors towards further resources. Other changes to the second edition include a more fully developed account of Augustine's understanding of happiness, new discussions of how technology shapes relationships and happiness, and consideration of the relationship between the natural law and the virtues.
Author : Daniel Mark Nelson
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Priority of Prudence written by Daniel Mark Nelson and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Priority of Prudence, Daniel Mark Nelson proposes a reappropriation of a moral perspective that focuses on the cardinal virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and prudence. The study aims to recover and rehabilitate the virtue of prudence as a way of resuming a moral conversation that has been stalemated for too long. Nelson's main source for reviving the virtue of prudence is St. Thomas Aquinas's account of the cardinal virtues in the Summa Theologica. A primary problem with using Aquinas as a source for reviving an ethics of virtue centered on prudence is that he is commonly perceived as the most prominent figure in the conflicting natural-law tradition. According to Nelson's reinterpretation, however, Aquinas teaches that moral understanding depends first and foremost on prudence working in accord with other cardinal virtues and that natural law functions to explain moral reasoning rather than to guide it. This study serves to advance the debate about the contemporary relevance of an ethics of virtue by way of its significantly more detailed explication of prudence. Nelson makes important connections between influential reinterpretations of the ethical theory of Aquinas that have been published during the last thirty years and widespread interest in an ethics of virtue that has been expressed by Alasdair Maclntyre, Stanley Hauerwas, William Sullivan, Robert Bellah, and others. The Priority of Prudence represents a significant contribution to the scholarly literature both in the study of Aquinas and in the debate on the ethics of virtue.
Author : Walter Joseph Buehler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Role of Prudence in Education written by Walter Joseph Buehler and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarke Forsythe
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458755010
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Politics for the Greatest Good written by Clarke Forsythe and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a level-headed voice, leading policy strategist Clarke Forsythe speaks clearly into the fray of political striving. Here he campaigns for a recovery of a rich understanding of the virtue of prudence, and for its application by policymakers and citizens to contemporary public policy. As Forsythe explains, prudence, in its classical sense, is the ability to apply wisdom to right action. In this book he explores the importance of applying the principles of prudence--taking account of limitations in a world of constraints and striving to achieve the greatest measure of justice under current circumstances--to the realm of politics, especially that of bioethics. In particular, Forsythe applies these concepts to the ongoing debate among pro-life advocates regarding gradual versus radical change as the most effective way to achieve political and legislative goals. Drawing on the Bible, philosophy, and the wisdom of historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and William Wilberforce, he makes a strong case for a strategy of seeking to achieve the maximal change possible at a given time--or political prudence. As such, it has broad implications for political scientists and strategists both within and beyond the pro-life context.
Author : Charles E. Curran
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809138791
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Historical Development of Fundamental Moral Theology in the United States written by Charles E. Curran and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches the development of fundamental moral theology in the U.S. and then uses original sources to document the significant changes that have occurred in the discipline, as well as the primary issues in Catholic moral theology today.
Author : Yves Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492955702
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Nature and Functions of Authority written by Yves Simon and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS paper intends to set forth the present state of an investigation which is still far from being complete, although it was started many years ago. In order to characterize the purpose and the spirit of this research, I should like to specify the problems which stimulated it. These problems arise from commonplace observations. Radical anarchists excepted, no social thinker ever questioned the fact that social happiness is based upon a felicitous combination of authority and liberty. However vague and ill-defined our concepts of authority and liberty may be, we realize at once that authority and liberty are at the same time antinomic and complementary terms. By saying that they are antinomic terms, I do not mean that their antinomic character is absolute and unqualified. I mean only that, in a certain sense and to some extent, those terms are undeniably opposed to one another. As to their complementary character, it is quite clear that authority, when it is not fairly balanced by liberty, is but tyranny, and that liberty, when it is not fairly balanced by authority, is but abusive license. Each of these terms destroys itself at the very moment when it destroys the other term by its excess. Therefore, both unrestricted liberty and boundless authority are fictitious conceptions, each of which implies its own negation together with the annihilation of society. There would be hardly any exaggeration in the statement that the essential question, for every social group, is that of combining rightly the forces of authority and liberty.In the practical solution of such a question, the social virtues of the responsible persons play the decisive role. Whatever the considered community, small or large, familial, economic or political, its happiness depends on the ability of its head to determine exactly the right limits of his authority, together with the ability of those who must obey to recognize that their claim for freedom cannot reasonably exceed certain limits. Inquiring into the nature of this ability to delineate the boundaries of one's field of action, let us say that it consists in a particular form of the virtue of prudence, in a wisdom which is practical in the full sense of the term, and proceeds from the virtuous dispositions of the will, justice, moderation, and charity.
Author : James F. Keenan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781442202979
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Moral Wisdom written by James F. Keenan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when religion and spirituality have been divorced from one another and morality and ethics are viewed as being confining rather than liberating, Fr. James Keenan has developed a new edition to his beloved book Moral Wisdom. There are new discussions of social sin and Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Caritas in Veritate, a clearer exploration of Jesus in the New Testament, and new study questions at the end of each chapter. 'Moral wisdom, ' as Fr. Keenan calls it, is the distinctive gift of the Catholic tradition, a gift that helps us discern what values to pursue and which virtues to embody on the path to becoming who we really are and who God calls us to be. Fr. Keenan uses a conversational style filled with stories and examples to open the treasure trove of resources in the Catholic tradition for developing moral wisdom. He lifts up the lessons on love, conscience, sin, and suffering, helping readers connect with the formative influences of the Catholic heritage and appreciate what gives meaning to our lives and what enhances our relationships with friends and family
Author : Kevin Carnahan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351999451
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality written by Kevin Carnahan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last several decades, the Just War debate amongst theologians has been dominated by two accounts of moral rationality. One side assumes a presumption against harm (PAH), and the other identifies with a presumption against injustice (PAI). From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality argues that the time has come to leave behind these two viewpoints in favor of a prudentially grounded approach to Just War thinking. This book offers a compelling new perspective on this important and pertinent subject. As such, academics and students in Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Ethics and Political Theory will all find it an invaluable resource on Just War theory.
Author : Eric Hall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630874000
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Groundless Gods written by Eric Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundless Gods: The Theological Prospects of Post-Metaphysical Thought deals with possible interpretations of an emerging interest in contemporary theology: postmetaphysical theology. This book attempts to openly come to grips, not only with what metaphysics and postmetaphysics imply, but also with what it could mean to do or not do theology from the standpoint of the nonmetaphysician. The book asks, for instance, whether this world has any singular definition, and whether God is some being standing apart from the world or an experience within the world.
Author : Joseph Alvin Burroughs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Prudence Integrating the Moral Virtues According to Saint Thomas Aquinas written by Joseph Alvin Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian P. Hall
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597526908
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Values Shift written by Brian P. Hall and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do your values influence your leadership style? -Have you clearly defined your own values? -Does your leadership style reflect your values? -How is your organization's development influenced by its values, by your values? 'Values Shift' will guide you to an understanding of how Òvalues are basically a quality information system that when understood tell about what drives human beings and organizations . . . 'Values Shift' will help you clarify your values, those of your organization, and to use this information to lead organizational development and change and to fulfill your organization's mission.
Author : Jonathan Brant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197599079
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Cultivating Virtue in the University written by Jonathan Brant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the globe, educators are grappling with how best to prepare a new generation to engage the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Along with knowledge and skills, many are now emphasizing the importance of character. Yet, while there has been a robust movement to educate character among children and adolescents, much less attention has been given to the ethical formation of college and university students. What is the role of colleges and universities in educating the character of students? Should universities even attempt to cultivate virtue? If so, how can they do so effectively in a pluralistic context? Cultivating Virtue in the University seeks to answer these questions by gathering diverse perspectives on character education within twenty-first century universities. With essays from some of the world's leading scholars, this volume catalyzes a critical debate about the possibilities and limits of character education in the university while offering theoretical and practical perspectives on what such education could look like in increasingly global and intercultural institutions. By engaging insights from education, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology, the volume encourages scholars and educators to embrace the opportunities and challenges of cultivating virtue in the university.
Author : Jean Porter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467446203
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Justice as a Virtue written by Jean Porter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Aquinas,” says Jean Porter, “gets justice right.” In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than a virtue of social institutions, as John Rawls and his interlocutors have described it — and as most people think of it today. Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas’s account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas’s views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice that he could not have anticipated.
Author : Oswald Mascarenhas
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787561933
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets written by Oswald Mascarenhas and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. The book extends the discussion on human dignity to its practical applications, maps out strategic approaches for responding to turbulent markets, and drills moral skills for taming current turbulent markets.
Author : Erica Benner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831849
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Machiavelli's Ethics written by Erica Benner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the "Machiavellian" maxim that the ends justify the means. By carefully reconstructing the principled foundations of his political theory, Erica Benner gives the most complete account yet of Machiavelli's thought. She argues that his difficult and puzzling style of writing owes far more to ancient Greek sources than is usually recognized, as does his chief aim: to teach readers not how to produce deceptive political appearances and rhetoric, but how to see through them. Drawing on a close reading of Greek authors--including Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch--Benner identifies a powerful and neglected key to understanding Machiavelli. This important new interpretation is based on the most comprehensive study of Machiavelli's writings to date, including a detailed examination of all of his major works: The Prince, The Discourses, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories. It helps explain why readers such as Bacon and Rousseau could see Machiavelli as a fellow moral philosopher, and how they could view The Prince as an ethical and republican text. By identifying a rigorous structure of principles behind Machiavelli's historical examples, the book should also open up fresh debates about his relationship to later philosophers, including Rousseau, Hobbes, and Kant.
