Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2007-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402064225
The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.
Author : James E. Fleming
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814760147
Throughout the history of moral, political, and legal philosophy, many have portrayed passions and emotions as being opposed to reason and good judgment. At the same time, others have defended passions and emotions as tempering reason and enriching judgment, and there is mounting empirical evidence linking emotions to moral judgment. In Passions and Emotions, a group of prominent scholars in philosophy, political science, and law explore three clusters of issues: “Passion & Impartiality: Passions & Emotions in Moral Judgment”; “Passion & Motivation: Passions & Emotions in Democratic Politics”; and “Passion & Dispassion: Passions & Emotions in Legal Interpretation.” This timely, interdisciplinary volume examines many of the theoretical and practical legal, political, and moral issues raised by such questions.
Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493415468
★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 1826
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Author : Randall B. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1108841155
By focusing attention on the importance of preaching, this book should spur a fundamental reconsideration of 'scholastic' culture and education.
Author : Mark Schroeder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199299501
Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires. Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.
Author : Randall B. Smith
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1945125101
Preaching was immensely important in the medieval Church, and Thomas Aquinas expended much time and effort preaching. Today, however, Aquinas’s sermons remain relatively unstudied and underappreciated. This is largely because their sermo modernus style, typical of the thirteenth century, can appear odd and inaccessible to the modern reader. In Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas, Randall Smith guides the reader through Aquinas’s sermons, explaining their form and content. In the process, one comes to appreciate the sermons in their rhetorical brilliance, beauty, and profound spiritual depth while simultaneously being initiated into a fascinating world of thought concerning Scripture, language, and the human mind. The book also includes analytical outlines for all of Aquinas’s extant sermons. Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide is an indispensable volume for those interested in the thought of Aquinas, in the intellectual and spiritual milieu in which he worked, and in the manifold ways of preaching the Gospel message.
Author : Andrea Sangiacomo
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198847904
Andrea Sangiacomo offers a new understanding of Spinoza's moral philosophy, how his views significantly evolved over time, and how he himself struggled during his career to develop a theory that could speak to human beings as they actually are--imperfect, passionate, and often not very rational.
Author : Howard J. Curzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199693722
Howard J. Curzer presents a fresh new reading of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which brings each of the virtues alive. He argues that justice and friendship are symbiotic in Aristotle's view; reveals how virtue ethics is not only about being good, but about becoming good; and describes Aristotle's ultimate quest to determine happiness.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401033269
