Human Excellence And Other Essays
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Author |
: Sean J. O'Connor |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:32912253 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Excellence and Other Essays by : Sean J. O'Connor
Author |
: C. S. Lewis |
Publisher |
: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2014-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802871848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802871844 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Reflections by : C. S. Lewis
This collection contains fourteen of Lewis's theological papers on subjects such as Christianity and literature, Christianity and culture, ethics, futility, church music, modern theology and biblical criticism, the Psalms, and petitionary prayer. Common to all of these varied essays are Lewis's uniquely effective style and his tireless concern to relate basic Christianity to all of life.
Author |
: Alan L. Contreras |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2017-03-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1544802730 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781544802732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Excellence by : Alan L. Contreras
Essays on the idea of excellence as applied to government, higher education, the fine arts and other arenas. Also includes Bluster's Last Stand: the Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Some Thoughts on Modern Libertarian Theory, The Rabble Revisited: a Current View of the Masses, Let the South Go, the short play Milo in Hell and other essays and short notes.
Author |
: Gabriel Richardson Lear |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2009-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400826087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140082608X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Happy Lives and the Highest Good by : Gabriel Richardson Lear
Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues--courage and generosity, for example--that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to read the entire Ethics as an attempt to flesh out the notion that the best life aims at the "monistic good" of contemplation. In defending the unity and coherence of the Ethics, Lear argues that, in Aristotle's view, we may act for the sake of an end not just by instrumentally bringing it about but also by approximating it. She then argues that, for Aristotle, the excellent rational activity of moral virtue is an approximation of theoretical contemplation. Thus, the happiest person chooses moral virtue as an approximation of contemplation in practical life. Richardson Lear bolsters this interpretation by examining three moral virtues--courage, temperance, and greatness of soul--and the way they are fine. Elegantly written and rigorously argued, this is a major contribution to our understanding of a central issue in Aristotle's moral philosophy.
Author |
: Robert Merrihew Adams |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 1987-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195364781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195364783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology by : Robert Merrihew Adams
Robert Merrihew Adams has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the commands of God. This collection of Adams' essays, two of which are previously unpublished, draws from his extensive writings on philosophical theology that discuss metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues surrounding the concept of God--whether God exists or not, what God is or would be like, and how we ought to relate ourselves to such a being. Adams studies the relation between religion and ethics, delving into an analysis of moral arguments for theistic belief. In several essays, he applies contemporary studies in the metaphysics of individuality, possibility and necessity, and counterfactual conditionals to issues surrounding the existence of God and problems of evil.
Author |
: John Stuart Mill |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 648 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192833847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192833846 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Liberty and Other Essays by : John Stuart Mill
Presents the text of four essays by nineteenth-century English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill, and includes textual and explanatory notes, chronology, and introduction.
Author |
: Aurel Kolnai |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0739100777 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780739100776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by : Aurel Kolnai
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the restoration of common-sense evaluation and philosophical realism at the center of his philosophical and political itinerary. In this volume, Daniel J. Mahoney presents Kolnai's major writings in political philosophy, writings that explore - in ways that are diverse but complementary - Kolnai's critique of progressive or egalitarian democracy. The title essay contains Kolnai's fullest account of the limits of liberty understood as emancipation from traditional, natural, or divine restraints. 'The Utopian Mind, ' a pr, cis of Kolnai's critique of utopianism in a posthumous book of the same title, appears here for the first time. 'Conservative and Revolutionary Ethos, ' Kolnai's remarkable 1972 essay comparing conservative and revolutionary approaches to political life, appears for the first time in English translation. The volume also includes a critically sympathetic evaluation of Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics and an incisive criticism of Jacques Maritain's efforts to synthesize Christian orthodoxy and progressive politics. Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy is a searching critique of political utopianism, as well as a pathbreaking articulation of conservative constitutionalism as the true support for human liberty properly understood. It is a major contribution to Christian and conservative political reflection in our ti
Author |
: George Orwell |
Publisher |
: Renard Press Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 15 |
Release |
: 2021-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781913724269 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1913724263 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why I Write by : George Orwell
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author |
: Cassius Jackson Keyser |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015012324490 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mole Philosophy & Other Essays by : Cassius Jackson Keyser
Author |
: John Stuart Mill |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 609 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199670802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199670803 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays by : John Stuart Mill
Collects four of the philosopher's essays on issues central to liberal democratic regimes. --Publisher.