Author: Catholic Church. Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher: CCCB Publications
ISBN: 9780889974951
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Abromaitis, Jonas
Publisher: CCCB Publications
ISBN: 9780889974968
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Rebecca Todd Peters
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826418586
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Provides a helpful overview of the complicated contemporary debates about globalization. This book argues that our moral task is to ensure that globalization proceeds in ways that honour creation and life, and that any theory of globalization ought to be grounded in values that emphasize a democratized understanding of power.

Author: Corey Miller
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532653212
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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What is the Good Life? Learn from some of the greatest minds in Greek, Jewish, and Christian thought. Comparing their thought reveals a new apex reached in the age-old question concerning the relationship of Jerusalem and Athens, faith and reason. Few have been more influential in Judaism and Christianity than Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas, yet Aristotle influenced them both in significant ways. By adopting and adapting some of Aristotle’s best thinking, we can appreciate Maimonides’ and Aquinas’ search for the Good Life from their respective views, ranging from the fall to human perfectibility. This examines human nature, the human telos, and how each would prescribe the route to the Good Life. For all three, it is ultimately about the knowledge of God. But what does that mean? The comparative approach is more illuminating than if considered in isolation. Comparatively, Aristotle’s approach may be characterized as informational, Maimonides’ as instructional, and Aquinas’ as pneumatic-relational. The role of faith as a virtue in both Maimonides and Aquinas makes a substantive difference over Aristotle’s in philosophical and practical ways. It is used to exploit their accounts of the human fall, moral perfection, and ultimate human perfection—the knowledge of God.

Author: Fred Dallmayr
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813138582
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The great German novelist Thomas Mann implored readers to resist the persistent and growing militarism of the mid-twentieth century. To whom should we turn for guidance during this current era of global violence, political corruption, economic inequality, and environmental degradation? For more than two millennia, the world's great thinkers have held that the ethically "good life" is the highest purpose of human existence. Renowned political philosopher Fred Dallmayr traces the development of this notion, finding surprising connections among Aristotelian ethics, Abrahamic and Eastern religious traditions, German idealism, and postindustrial social criticism. In Search of the Good Life does not offer a blueprint but rather invites readers on a cross-cultural quest. Along the way, the author discusses the teachings of Aristotle, Confucius, Nicolaus of Cusa, Leibniz, and Schiller, in addition invoking more recent writings of Gadamer and Ricoeur, as guideposts and sources of hope during our troubled times. Among contemporary themes Dallmayr discusses are the role of the classics in education, proper and improper ways of spreading democracy globally, the possibility of transnational citizenship, the problem of politicized evil, and the role of religion in our predominantly secular culture. Dallmayr restores the notion of the good life as a hallmark of personal conduct, civic virtue, and political engagement, and as the road map to enduring peace. In Search of the Good Life seeks to arouse complacent and dispirited citizens, guiding them out of the distractions of shallow amusements and perilous resentments in the direction of mutual learning and civic pedagogy -- a direction that will enable them to impose accountability on political leaders who stray from fundamental ethical standards.

Author: Paul Marcus
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429914792
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), French phenomenological philosopher and Talmudic commentator, is regarded as perhaps the greatest ethical philosopher of our time. While Levinas enjoys prominence in the philosophical and scholarly community, especially in Europe, there are few if any books or articles written that take Levinas's extremely difficult to understand, if not obtuse, philosophy and apply it to the everyday lives of real people struggling to give greater meaning and purpose, especially ethical meaning, to their personal lives. This book attempts to fill in the large gap in the Levinas literature, mainly through using a Levinasian-inspired, ethically-infused psychoanalytic approach.

Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004279024
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, the Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Rector of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, is one of today’s leading Jewish ethicists. In Search of a Good Life presents influential essays by Dorff and explains his contribution to Jewish religious thought in the second half of the 20th century.

Author: Roswitha McIntosh
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781450526487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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In Search of the Good Life portrays the qualities that make for a good life, such as courage, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and love. One reviewer called it, "a Tao for modern living ... a guide, comfort and aid to meditation." The book, written in lyric prose and beautifully illustrated by well-known artist Mimi Stuart, answers many questions. What is the Good Life? Is it freedom to do as we want; is it wealth and power? Or is it happiness and contentment? Where do we begin our search for the Good Life? It begins within ourselves, for we all differ and are wise to accept our preferences, limitations and strengths. Do we look for happiness? Or will happiness find us if we give it a chance? How do we cope with death, betrayal and loss? The author's long and varied life has led her to many answers that she shares in this slim volume. A reviewer calls it: "A gem of a book, the essence of the sages distilled into a highly readable and poetic narrative. Highly recommended to those who want to get the most out of life."

Author: Frederick Marryat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Author: Otto A. De La Camp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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