Book Description
A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England
Author : Jessica Murphy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472119575
A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England
Author : Raja Halwani
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780812695434
Author Raja Halwani discusses how virtue ethics illuminates the three central areas of our lives -- care, love, and sex -- which are often considered to be crucial to a well-lived life. Halwani concludes that virtue ethics allows for those sexual lifestyles that are deemed by traditional morality to be wrong -- promiscuity, open relationships, and sex work -- which boldly counters the conservative viewpoint of many virtue ethicists. This argument about the relationship between romantic love and virtue also examines the works of other philosophers.
Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812697057
"MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for not taking seriously the dependent and animal sides of human nature, thereby overemphasizing the powers of reason and the pursuit of reason and the pursuit of autonomy. . . . This important work in ethics is essential for the professional philosopher and is highly readable for students at all levels and for thoughtful citizens." --Choice
Author : Tristan J. Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000222640
This book provides a unified account of the connection between justice and the good life. It argues that the virtues of character require institutions, while good institutions enable persons to live together virtuously. Although virtue ethics and political philosophy are rich and sophisticated philosophical traditions, there has been an unfortunate divergence, in theory and practice, between the virtues of character and the virtues of institutions. This book has two primary purposes. First, it reorients political philosophy around the concept of the good life. To do so, the author addresses the problem of political authority from a virtue ethics perspective. He also considers whether a political theory oriented around the good life is compatible with Rawls’s notion of reasonable pluralism. Second, the book explains the relationship between the virtues of institutions and the virtues of character. The author shows how institutions support the development and exercise of the virtues of character, while examining specific other-regarding virtues such as justice and friendship. The Authority of Virtue will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in virtue ethics, social and political philosophy, ancient philosophy, and political theory.
Author : Wesley J. Wildman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438471254
In Effing the Ineffable, Wesley J. Wildman confronts the human obsession with ultimate reality and our desire to conceive and speak of this reality through religious language, despite the seeming impossibility of doing so. Each chapter is a meditative essay on an aspect of life that, for most people, is fraught with special spiritual significance: dreaming, suffering, creating, slipping, balancing, eclipsing, loneliness, intensity, and bliss. These moments can inspire religious questioning and commitment, and, in extreme situations, drive us in search of ways to express what matters most to us. Drawing upon American pragmatist, Anglo-American analytic, and Continental traditions of philosophical theology, Wildman shows how, through direct description, religious symbolism, and phenomenological experience, the language games of religion become a means to attempt, and, in some sense, to accomplish this task.
Author : Audrey L. Anton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1786602385
The Bright and the Good examines the connection between intellectual and moral virtues both through the history of philosophy and as it can be illustrated in comprehensive examinations of specific virtues. The first part of the book investigates the original assumptions posited by Ancient Western philosophers concerning the apparent connection between moral and intellectual virtues. The second part follows the assumptions through history from the Medieval and Modern periods of philosophy, noting how the assumption has been tweaked to accommodate specific ideological and scientific precepts. The third part showcases inquiries into specific virtues, taking the reader on an investigation unfettered by any specific time period or ideology so as to consider the apparent connection between the moral and the intellectual on a case-by-case basis. These essays relate both historical context and contemporary concerns and examine topics including vice, ignorance, hope, courage, patience, justice and mercy.
Author : Meister Eckhart
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Mysticism
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Author : Meister Eckhart
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Mysticism
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Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : Sydney Dobell
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1878
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