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The Minor Virtues

Author : Lynn Levin

Publisher :

Page : 90 pages

File Size : 30,37 MB

Release : 2020-03-16

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 9781933974354

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The Minor Virtues, Lynn Levin's fifth collection of poems, begins with celebrations of small everyday practices--among them, fixing broken things and buying produce from the marked-down cart--which, when fancifully contemplated, branch into deeper appreciations of life. Levin's outlook is eclectic and occasionally very funny. Her moments are not without griefs and worries, yet, in these lyrics and narratives, she addresses them with good humor, respect, and abiding affection. As Willard Spiegelman observers, Lynn Levin's "many virtues, variously presented and contained here, are more than minor. Maturity, wisdom, and wit are among them."



The Jewish Moral Virtues

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz

Publisher : Jewish Publication Society

Page : 396 pages

File Size : 48,90 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9780827606647

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The Jewish Moral Virtues is a book of musar - practical ethical wisdom applied to contemporary life. In form and purpose, it is parallel to William Bennett's bestselling Book of Virtues. Authors Borowitz and Schwartz synthesize traditional scholarship from a wide range of Jewish sources with personal insights into modern ethical dilemmas. Traditionally, Jewish ethical teachers have been concerned with law or general guidance for a good life, i.e., virtue, rather than philosophical meditations upon specific issues. This collection is structured upon the twenty-four virtues selected by a thirteenth-century Roman Jew, Yehiel ben Yekutiel, including trustworthiness, lovingkindness, compassion, generosity, charity, humility, and pure-heartedness, among others, and expands to include wisdom from the ancient rabbis, medieval philosophers, and Yehiel's successors over the past seven centuries.



The Book of Virtues

Author : William J. Bennett

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 2005 pages

File Size : 45,2 MB

Release : 2010-05-11

Category : Education

ISBN : 1439126259

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Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.



The Virtues

Author : Pope Benedict XVI

Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor

Page : 91 pages

File Size : 25,29 MB

Release : 2010-10-22

Category : Religion

ISBN : 161278108X

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"The truly great thing in Christianity, which does not dispense one from small, daily things but must not be concealed by them either, is this ability to come into contact with God." -- Pope Benedict XVI One of the greatest spiritual teachers of our day, Pope Benedict XVI has frequently spoken about the pursuit of virtue. In this series of excerpts from his homilies, addresses, and encyclicals, the Holy Father draws on the lives of saints, the Catechism, and common experiences to bring us into a deeper understanding of the virtues and how to cultivate them in our lives so that we can grow closer to the Lord.



Core Virtues

Author : Mary Beth Klee

Publisher : Link Inst

Page : 167 pages

File Size : 29,3 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Education

ISBN : 9780967962603

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Virtues for the People

Author : Geert Roskam

Publisher : Universitaire Pers Leuven

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 32,71 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 905867858X

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This collection of essays addresses Plutarch's writings on practical ethics from different perspectives, including regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical and social presuppositions.



The Virtue of Aristotle's Ethics

Author : Paula Gottlieb

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 25,23 MB

Release : 2009-04-27

Category : History

ISBN : 052176176X

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Book Description

This text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.



Ethics in Early Buddhism

Author : David J. Kalupahana

Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 31,50 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9788120832800

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Throughout the centuries, moral philosophers, both Eastern and Western, considered a permanent and eternal law a necessary requirement for the formulation of a moral principle. If such a law was not empirically given, it had to be determined through reason. In contrast, early Buddhism presented a radical theory of impermanence. Interpreters of early Buddhism have been unable to abandon the presupposition of permanence, however, and hence have persisted in viewing nirvana or freedom as a permanent and eternal state to be contrasted with the impermanent world of sensory experience and bondage. Ethics in Early Buddhism is David J. Kalupahana's balanced and brilliantly concise attempt to place the early Buddhist descriptions of the world of experience, the state of freedom, and the moral principle leading to such freedom within the framework of impermanence.