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Passions and Virtue

Author : Servais Pinckaers
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813227518
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Passions and Virtue written by Servais Pinckaers and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the last that noted moral theologian Servais Pinckaers, OP, wrote before his death, was conceived as a follow-up to his previous work Plaidoyer pour la vertu (An Appeal for Virtue) (2007) Pinckaers' aim in Passions and Virtue was to show the positive and essential role that our emotions play in the life of virtue. His purpose is part of a larger project of renewing moral theology, a theology too often experienced as an ethics of obligation rather than as a practical guide to living virtuously. To this end, Pinckaers sketches a positive psychology of the passions as found in the biblical tradition, in the writings of the Fathers of the Church, in pagan authors and, especially, in the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Virtuous Passions

Author : G. Simon Harak
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 157910830X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Virtuous Passions written by G. Simon Harak and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-12-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Formation of Christian Character, G. Simon Harak, S.J. Suggests that morality is best approached from a discussion of human passions -- what moves us, draws us, engages our fascination and interest.

The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues

Author : Sandra Maitri
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781585424061
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues written by Sandra Maitri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the mysterious nine-pointed symbol of the enneagram illuminates the worst pitfalls and highest virtues of our psyches. The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues elucidates human experience beyond the personality structure. In the tradition of the enneagram, the Virtues are said to be the affective atmosphere that replaces the compulsive and reactive emotional patterns-called the Passions-as one becomes freer of the ego. Sandra Maitri shows how the shift in our consciousness, or soul, from being informed by the Passions to being informed by the Virtues, is one of the hallmarks of inner development. In this book, Maitri explores how our awareness of the Passions, in turn, leads to the manifestation of the Virtues. This shift supports rowth on the level of personality as well as on the level of what is beyond-Being, or True Nature. Maitri is widely known as one of the most literate and indepth writers and teachers on the uses of the enneagram as a tool of inner development. In this book she provides what can be for some an entry into inner work, and for others, who have been engaged in the journey for a longer time, a uniquely incisive explication of concepts they may have missed.

Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama

Author : Unhae Park Langis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441187456
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama written by Unhae Park Langis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of passion, prudence and virtue in Shakespearean drama from the perspective of ethical criticism.

Thomas Aquinas on the Passions

Author : Robert Miner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521897483
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on the Passions written by Robert Miner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an understanding of Thomas Aquinas' account of the passions, the elemental forces that affect human happiness.

Passions of the Christ

Author : F. Scott Spencer
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781540964465
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Passions of the Christ written by F. Scott Spencer and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A senior New Testament scholar delves into the emotional life of Jesus in the Gospels-his anger, grief, disgust, surprise, compassion, and joy-that reveal what mattered most to Jesus and motivated his mission"--

Thinking about the Emotions

Author : Alix Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198766858
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about the Emotions written by Alix Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason. Fourteen leading philosophers here offer a broad survey of the development of our understanding of the emotions. The thinkers they discuss include Aristotle, Aquinas, Ockham, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Hobbes, Hume, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James, Brentano, Stumpf, Scheler, Heidegger, and Sartre. Central issues include the taxonomy of the emotions; the distinction between emotions, passions, feelings and moods; the relation between the emotions and reason; the relationship between the self and the emotions. At a metaphilosophical level, the collection also raises issues about the value of historical study of the discipline, and what light it can shed on contemporary concerns. Thinking about the Emotions is a fascinating and illuminating collective study of how philosophers have grappled with this most intriguing part of our nature as beings who feel as well as think and act.

Aquinas on Virtue

Author : Nicholas Austin
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626164738
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Aquinas on Virtue written by Nicholas Austin and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquinas on Virtue is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas. This book offers a systematic analysis of Aquinas on the nature, genesis, and role of virtue in human life.

An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections

Author : Francis Hutcheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virtue Is Knowledge

Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613668X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Virtue Is Knowledge written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relation between virtue and knowledge is at the heart of the Socratic view of human excellence, but it also points to a central puzzle of the Platonic dialogues: Can Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? Lorraine Smith Pangle traces the argument for the primacy of virtue and the power of knowledge throughout the five dialogues that feature them most prominently—the Apology, Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, and Laws—and reveals the truth at the core of these seemingly strange claims. She argues that Socrates was more aware of the complex causes of human action and of the power of irrational passions than a cursory reading might suggest. Pangle’s perceptive analyses reveal that many of Socrates’s teachings in fact explore the factors that make it difficult for humans to be the rational creatures that he at first seems to claim. Also critical to Pangle’s reading is her emphasis on the political dimensions of the dialogues. Underlying many of the paradoxes, she shows, is a distinction between philosophic and civic virtue that is critical to understanding them. Ultimately, Pangle offers a radically unconventional way of reading Socrates’s views of human excellence: Virtue is not knowledge in any ordinary sense, but true virtue is nothing other than wisdom.

Spinoza on Reason, Passions, and the Supreme Good

Author : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198847904
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Spinoza on Reason, Passions, and the Supreme Good written by Andrea Sangiacomo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's thought is at the centre of an ever growing interest. Spinoza's moral philosophy, in particular, points to a radical way of understanding how human beings can become free and enjoy supreme happiness. And yet, there is still much disagreement about how exactly Spinoza's recipe is supposed to work. For long time, Spinoza has been presented as an arch rationalist who would identify in the purely intellectual cultivation of reason the key for ethical progress. Andrea Sangiacomo offers a new understanding of Spinoza's project, by showing how he himself struggled during his career to develop a moral philosophy that could speak to human beings as they actually are (imperfect, passionate, often not very rational). Spinoza's views significantly evolved over time. In his early writings, Spinoza's account of ethical progress towards the Supreme Good relies mostly on the idea that the mind can build on its innate knowledge to resist the power of the passions. Although appropriate social conditions may support the individual's pursuit of the Supreme Good, achieving it does not depend essentially on social factors. In Spinoza's later writings, however, the emphasis shifts towards the mind's need to rely on appropriate forms of social cooperation. Reason becomes the mental expression of the way the human body interacts with external causes on the basis of some degree of agreement in nature with them. The greater the agreement, the greater the power of reason to adequately understand universal features as well as more specific traits of the external causes. In the case of human beings, certain kinds of social cooperation are crucial for the development of reason. This view has crucial ramifications for Spinoza's account of how individuals can progress towards the Supreme Good and how a political science based on Spinoza's principles can contribute to this goal.

Passion Is the Gale

Author : Nicole Eustace
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838799
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Passion Is the Gale written by Nicole Eustace and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.

Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric

Author : Jamie Dow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025569
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric written by Jamie Dow and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Aristotle, arousing the passions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction. On that basis a skill in doing so can be something valuable, an appropriate constituent of the kind of expertise in rhetoric that deserves to be cultivated and given expression in a well-organised state. Such are Jamie Dow's principal claims in Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric. He attributes to Aristotle a normative view of rhetoric and its role in the state, and ascribes to him a particular view of the kinds of cognitions involved in the passions. In the first sustained treatment of these issues, and the first major monograph on Aristotle's Rhetoric in twenty years, Dow argues that Aristotle held distinctive and philosophically interesting views of both rhetoric and the nature of the passions. In Aristotle's view, he argues, rhetoric is exercised solely in the provision of proper grounds for conviction (pisteis). This is rhetoric's valuable contribution to the proper functioning of the state. Dow explores, through careful examination of the text of the Rhetoric, what normative standards must be met for something to qualify in Aristotle's view as 'proper grounds for conviction', and how he supposed these standards could be met by each of his trio of 'technical proofs' (entechnoi pisteis)—those using reason, character and emotion. In the case of the passions, Dow suggests, meeting these standards is a matter of arousing passions that constitute the reasonable acceptance of premises in arguments supporting the speaker's conclusion. Dow then seeks to show that Aristotle's view of the passions is compatible with this role in rhetorical expertise. This involves taking a stand on a number of controversial issues in Aristotle studies. In Passions and Persuasion, Dow rejects the view that Aristotle's Rhetoric expresses inconsistent views on emotion-arousal. Aristotle's treatment of the passions in the Rhetoric is, he argues, best understood as expressing a substantive theory of the passions as pleasures and pains. This is supported by a new representationalist reading of Aristotle's account of pleasure (and pain) in Rhetoric 1. Dow also defends a distinctive understanding of how Aristotle understood the contribution of phantasia ('appearance') to the cognitive component of the passions. On this interpretation, Aristotelian passions must involve the subject's affirming things to be the way that they are represented. Thus understood, the passions of an emotionally-engaged audience can constitute a part of their reasonable acceptance of a speaker's argument.

Geometry of the Passions

Author : Remo Bodei
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487517793
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Geometry of the Passions written by Remo Bodei and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision. By means of a theoretical and historical analysis, Bodei interprets the relationship between passion and reason as a conflict between two complementary logics. Geometry of the Passions investigates the paradoxical conflict-collaboration between passions and reason, and between individual and political projects. Tracing the roles passion and reason have played throughout history, including in the political agendas of Descartes, Hobbes, and the French Jacobins, Geometry of the Passions reveals how passion and reason may be used as a vehicle for affirmation rather than self-enslavement.

Make Work Matter

Author : Michaela PhD O'Donnell
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493432362
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Make Work Matter written by Michaela PhD O'Donnell and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decades, work has changed dramatically. Yet we are still sent into the new world of work with old, outdated tools, expectations, and strategies. This leaves us ill-equipped in our pursuit of meaningful work that will impact our communities and change the world. The result? Unmet expectations and unfulfilled longings. Not to mention curiosity about how to do the work we sense God calling us to. Make Work Matter provides a blueprint for a better future. Filled with stories and insights from faithful entrepreneurs and built on solid research, this book will help you - discover what God is calling you to do in a changing world - define where you are in this season of work - embrace what the Bible says (and doesn't say) about calling - develop a mindset and habits suited for the new world of work - reflect on and work out ways that sustain you on the journey It's time to close the gap between what you're doing now and the meaningful work you desire to accomplish. This book will help you chart your own way forward.

From passion to peace; or, The pathway of the pure

Author : James Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book From passion to peace; or, The pathway of the pure written by James Allen and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics

Author : Tara Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139455109
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics written by Tara Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand's view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This book explains the fundamental virtues that Rand considers vital for a person to achieve his objective well-being: rationality, honesty, independence, justice, integrity, productiveness, and pride. Tracing Rand's account of the harmony of human beings' rational interests, Smith examines what each of these virtues consists of, why it is a virtue, and what it demands of a person in practice. Along the way she addresses the status of several conventional virtues within Rand's theory, considering traits such as kindness, charity, generosity, temperance, courage, forgiveness, and humility. Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics thus offers an in-depth exploration of several specific virtues and an illuminating integration of these with the broader theory of egoism.