Morality, Hope and Grief

Morality, Hope and Grief
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 1845456637
ISBN-13 : 9781845456634
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Morality, Hope and Grief by : Hansj Rg Dilger

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS. The contributions describe the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalised in the context of global modernity.

Ethics of Hope

Ethics of Hope
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Publisher : SCM Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780334048886
ISBN-13 : 0334048885
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Ethics of Hope by : Jurgen Moltmann

For a time of peril, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann offers an ethical framework for the future. Moltmann has shown how hope in the future decisively reconfigures the present and shapes our understanding of central Christian convictions, from creation to New Creation.

Radical Hope

Radical Hope
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9780674040021
ISBN-13 : 0674040023
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Hope by : Jonathan Lear

Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.

Mourning Nature

Mourning Nature
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9780773549364
ISBN-13 : 0773549366
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Mourning Nature by : Ashlee Cunsolo

We are facing unprecedented environmental challenges, including global climate change, large-scale industrial development, rapidly increasing species extinction, ocean acidification, and deforestation – challenges that require new vocabularies and new ways to express grief and sorrow over the disappearance, degradation, and loss of nature. Seeking to redress the silence around ecologically based anxiety in academic and public domains, and to extend the concepts of sadness, anger, and loss, Mourning Nature creates a lexicon for the recognition and expression of emotions related to environmental degradation. Exploring the ways in which grief is experienced in numerous contexts, this groundbreaking collection draws on classical, philosophical, artistic, and poetic elements to explain environmental melancholia. Understanding that it is not just how we mourn but what we mourn that defines us, the authors introduce new perspectives on conservation, sustainability, and our relationships with nature. An ecological elegy for a time of climatic and environmental upheaval, Mourning Nature challenges readers to turn devastating events into an opportunity for positive change. Contributors include Glenn Albrecht (Murdoch University, retired); Jessica Marion Barr (Trent University); Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota); Ashlee Cunsolo (Labrador Institute of Memorial University); Amanda Di Battista (York University); Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh); Bernie Krause (soundscape ecologist, author, and independent scholar); Lisa Kretz (University of Evansville); Karen Landman (University of Guelph); Patrick Lane (Poet); Andrew Mark (independent scholar); Nancy Menning (Ithaca College); John Charles Ryan (University of New England); Catriona Sandilands (York University); and Helen Whale (independent scholar).

Grieving a Suicide

Grieving a Suicide
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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9780830883974
ISBN-13 : 0830883975
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Grieving a Suicide by : Albert Y. Hsu

Albert Y. Hsu wrestles with emotional and spiritual questions surrounding suicide, ultimately pointing survivors to the God who offers comfort in our grief and hope for the future. This revised edition now includes a discussion guide for suicide survivor groups.

The Moral Psychology of Hope

The Moral Psychology of Hope
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781786609731
ISBN-13 : 1786609738
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Moral Psychology of Hope by : Claudia Blöser

That we can hope is one of the capacities that define us as human beings. To hope means not just to have beliefs about what will happen, but to imagine the future as potentially fulfilling some of our most important wishes. It is therefore not surprising that hope has received attention by philosophers, psychologists and by religious thinkers throughout the ages. The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.

The Ethics of Death

The Ethics of Death
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Publisher : Fortress Press
Total Pages : 403
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ISBN-10 : 9781451487572
ISBN-13 : 1451487576
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ethics of Death by : Lloyd Steffen

In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Their respectful and engaging dialogue highlights the complex and challenging issues that surround many deaths in our modern world and helps readers frame thoughtful responses. Unafraid of difficult topics, Steffen and Cooley fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.

Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa

Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9781472428417
ISBN-13 : 1472428412
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa by : Dr Marian Burchardt

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.

Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope

Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9781441198600
ISBN-13 : 1441198601
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope by : Jill Graper Hernandez

The idea of 'hope' has received significant attention in the political sphere recently. But is hope just wishful thinking, or can it be something more than a political catch-phrase? This book argues that hope can be understood existentially, or on the basis of what it means to be human. Under this conception of hope, given to us by Gabriel Marcel, hope is not optimism, but the creation of ways for us to flourish. War, poverty and an absolute reliance on technology are real-life evils that can suffocate hope. Marcel's thought provides a way to overcome these negative experiences. An ethics of hope can function as an alternative to isolation, dread, and anguish offered by most existentialists. This book presents Marcel's existentialism as a convincing, relevant moral theory; founded on the creation of hope, interwoven with the individual's response to the death of God. Jill Hernandez argues that today's reader of Marcel can resonate with his belief that the experience of pain can be transcended through a philosophy of hope and an escape from materialism.

Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics

Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics
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Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780190906801
ISBN-13 : 0190906804
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Ethics by : Sandra Shapshay

This book articulates and defends an interpretation of Schopenhauer's ethics as an original and credible contribution to the history of ethics. It presents Schopenhauer's ethics of compassion in direct tension with his resignationism and aims to show surprising continuities with Kant's ethics.