Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781473318878
The translation of this early work by Jean Jacques Rousseau was originally published in 1889 and we are now republishing it. 'Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar' was intended by Rousseau to be a defence of religion from the viewpoint of a humble Catholic vicar. The vicar's creed is Socinianism (or Unitarianism as it is called today). Because it rejected original sin and divine Revelation, both Protestant and Catholic authorities took offence. This publication also contains a piece by the South African novelist and political activist Olive Schreiner.
Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Paul Shore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004423370
The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology—a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit—and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society’s restoration in the broader context of world history.
Author : E. Kennedy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230601685
In this overview of secularism and its history, Kennedy traces, through a series of intellectual biographies of leading European thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Dostoyevsky, and Solzhenitsyn, just how the Western world changed from religious to secular.
Author : David S. Pacini
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823229659
Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly presents a genealogy and critique of the ideal of conscience in modern philosophical theology, particularly in the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. It shows why the apparently emancipatory rejection of heteronomy compromised the ideal of self-legislated freedom. David Pacini argues that, despite its advocacy of the popular political value of common understanding, the modern religion of conscience has become the Achilles' heel of both Kantian and Freudian thought. It is doomed to succumb to its own fundamentally narcissistic or self-relating orientation. Avoiding the tenacious cliché that the luminaries of modern philosophy simply replaced God with the self, David Pacini argues that the modern religion of conscience emerges out of a far more radical kind of disenchantment, one in which both God and self are de-divinized. Bereft of divinity, the God of modernity becomes empty; the self of modernity, in its autonomy, becomes hopelessly tied to dissociation from origins and to loss of a world. Left only to itself, the conscientious individual has only the world it legitimates through self-relating. But given that any other world is inconceivable, the conscientious individual can never know whether its world is just or merely the expression of self-interest. Paradoxically, Pacini argues, the most formidable proponents of the modern religion of conscience share with their critics a common problem: the self-legislating self has become both indispensable and impossible within much of modern philosophy and theology. This unique and interdisciplinary interpretation of conscience makes an important contribution for scholars and students of modern philosophy, Christian theology, psychoanalytic theory, and literary criticism.
Author : Giovanni Tarantino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 100070842X
Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe. Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the loyalty, values, and trust of "others". Accessibly written, divided into three thematic parts, and enhanced by a variety of illustrations, Feeling Exclusion is perfect for students and researchers of early modern emotions and religion.
Author : Ernest J. Lajeunesse
Publisher : Heritage
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 1960-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487581596
This historical survey is intended to serve as an introduction to a series of documents relating to the exploration and settlement of Canada's southernmost frontier - the Detroit River region.
Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8726892367
Alcohol abuse is one of societies great levellers. It does not matter whether you are a prince or a peasant, when the demon drink controls you, you are the same. That is the message at the heart of Leo Tolstoy's 'The Cause of it All' - a warning against over-imbibing. It features Mihayla, the apparently respectable head of a rural Russian family. Then there is the vagrant who has been given shelter in their home for a night. Both get drunk, with Mihayla trying to bite his wife before the vagrant stops him. In the morning, the vagrant has gone - along with some of their belongings. Mihayla pursues him. But will this violent alcoholic choose revenge - or realise that they are both controlled by the same demon? It is a theme that has never - and probably will never - be outdated. The scourge of alcohol abuse features in Anne Bronte's 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall', Patricia Highsmith's 'Strangers on a Train' and 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy’s major works include 'War and Peace' (1865–69) and 'Anna Karenina' (1875–77), two of the greatest novels of all time and pinnacles of realist fiction. Beyond novels, he wrote many short stories and later in life also essays and plays. In the years following the publication of 'War and Peace' Tolstoy - who was born to a Russian aristocratic family - had a spiritual awakening that made him a committed Christian anarchist and pacifist. His philosophy inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author : Willard R. Espy
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780816043132
An easy-to-use dictionary of over 80,000 rhyming words.