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Author: Mark J Boone Publisher: James Clarke & Company ISBN: 0227906403 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 205
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The first fruits of the literary career of St Augustine, the great theologian and Christian philosopher par excellence, are the dialogues he wrote at Cassiciacum in Italy following his famous conversion in Milan in AD 386. These four little books, largely neglected by scholars, take up the ancient philosophical project of identifying the principles and practices that heal human desires in order to attain happiness, renewing this philosophical endeavour with insights from Christian theology. Augustine's later books, such as the Confessions, would continue this project of healing desire, as would the writings of others including Boethius, Anselm, and Aquinas. Mark J. Boone's The Conversion and Therapy of Desire investigates the roots of thisproject at Cassiciacum, where Augustine is developing a Christian theology of desire, informed by Neoplatonism but transformed by Christian teaching and practices.
Author: Mark J Boone Publisher: James Clarke & Company ISBN: 0227906403 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
The first fruits of the literary career of St Augustine, the great theologian and Christian philosopher par excellence, are the dialogues he wrote at Cassiciacum in Italy following his famous conversion in Milan in AD 386. These four little books, largely neglected by scholars, take up the ancient philosophical project of identifying the principles and practices that heal human desires in order to attain happiness, renewing this philosophical endeavour with insights from Christian theology. Augustine's later books, such as the Confessions, would continue this project of healing desire, as would the writings of others including Boethius, Anselm, and Aquinas. Mark J. Boone's The Conversion and Therapy of Desire investigates the roots of thisproject at Cassiciacum, where Augustine is developing a Christian theology of desire, informed by Neoplatonism but transformed by Christian teaching and practices.
Author: Mark J. Boone Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The philosophical schools of late antiquity commonly diagnosed human unhappiness as rooted in some fundamental disorder in our desires, and offered various therapies or prescriptions for the healing of desire. Among these only the neo-Platonic treatment for desire requires redirecting desire towards an immaterial world. Although Augustine agrees with the neo-Platonists on the need to redirect our desires to an immaterial world, he does not adopt their therapy for desire. Instead he adopts a thoroughly Christian approach to the healing of desire. The conversion of desire results from the Trinitarian God's gracious actions taken to heal our desires. Augustine does not recommend fleeing from the influence of the body, as neo-Platonism encourages, but fleeing to Christ, immersing ourselves in the life of the Church, and practicing the theological virtues. In this dissertation I examine Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues. In Contra academicos (Against the academics), Augustine argues that we must vigorously desire wisdom in order to attain it; that we must have hope in the possibility of attaining wisdom; and that our desire for wisdom must be bound in faith to Christ. In De beata vita (On the happy life), Augustine argues that the Trinitarian God is the only perennially satisfying object of desire and shows that the pursuit of God is the activity of a prayerful community of believers who are practicing faith, hope, and charity. In De ordine (On order), Augustine recommends that the reordering of our desires be pursued through a liberal arts education and through Christian morals. In Soliloquia (Soliloquies), Augustine says that we ought to love God and the soul. He also reminds us to submit to Christ's authority and practice faith, hope, and love. After discussing these things, I discuss in a concluding chapter the harmony of love for God and love for human beings, pointing to passages in the dialogues that suggest this harmony.
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400831946 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 584
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The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. By examining texts of philosophers such as Epicurus, Lucretius, and Seneca, she recovers a valuable source for current moral and political thought and encourages us to reconsider philosophical argument as a technique through which to improve lives. Written for general readers and specialists, The Therapy of Desire addresses compelling issues ranging from the psychology of human passion through rhetoric to the role of philosophy in public and private life.
Author: Lawrence C. Becker Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400888387 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 283
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What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have abandoned. Lawrence Becker argues that a secular version of the stoic ethical project, based on contemporary cosmology and developmental psychology, provides the basis for a sophisticated form of ethical naturalism, in which virtually all the hard doctrines of the ancient Stoics can be clearly restated and defended. Becker argues, in keeping with the ancients, that virtue is one thing, not many; that it, and not happiness, is the proper end of all activity; that it alone is good, all other things being merely rank-ordered relative to each other for the sake of the good; and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Moreover, he rejects the popular caricature of the stoic as a grave figure, emotionally detached and capable mainly of endurance, resignation, and coping with pain. To the contrary, he holds that while stoic sages are able to endure the extremes of human suffering, they do not have to sacrifice joy to have that ability, and he seeks to turn our attention from the familiar, therapeutic part of stoic moral training to a reconsideration of its theoretical foundations.
Author: Jack Drescher Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1841848727 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 230
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Hear the other side of the story on sexual conversion therapy! In their fervor to “fix” homosexuals, practitioners of sexual conversion therapies have often overlooked or completely dismissed the possible psychological and social side effects of such treatments. Sexual Conversion Therapy: Ethical, Clinical, and Research Perspectives works to counterbalance the clinical and ethical omissions of overzealous therapists who have focused on efficacy and outcome at the expense of their patients’self-esteem. Sexual Conversion Therapy features first-person accounts of patients and clinicians, including psychotherapists who themselves have undergone treatments ranging from psychoanalysis to religious faith healing to aversion behavior conditioning and even electroshock therapy. In addition to examining the history and ethics of conversion therapy, the book presents empirical data on current practice and recovery processes for survivors of failed conversion attempts. Sexual Conversion Therapy presents current perspectives on the harmful impact of sexual orientation interventions, including: “Cures: A Gay Man?s Odyssey” “Becoming Gay” “A Psychologist?s Journey Through the Ex-Gay Movement” “Therapeutic Antidotes: Gay and Bisexual Men Recover from Conversion Therapies” “I?m Your Handyman: A History of Reparative Therapies” Nearly 30 years after the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a small but dedicated group of mental health practitioners continues to diagnose and treat homosexuality as a mental illness. Sexual Conversion Therapy is an essential alternative to the bulk of published material that champions treatments that produce a handful of heterosexuals “cured” of their “illness,” while inflicting emotional and psychological damage on countless gay and lesbian patients who failed to convert.
Author: Nick White Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399573682 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
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**Named One of Book Riot’s BEST QUEER BOOKS OF 2017** “Packed with story and drama … If Tennessee Williams’s ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ could be transposed to the 21st-century South, where queer liberation co-exists alongside the stubborn remains of fire and brimstone, it might read something like this juicy, moving hot mess of a novel.” –Tim Murphy, The Washington Post A searing debut novel centering around a gay-to-straight conversion camp in Mississippi and a man's reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. Camp Levi, nestled in the Mississippi countryside, is designed to “cure” young teenage boys of their budding homosexuality. Will Dillard, a midwestern graduate student, spent a summer at the camp as a teenager, and has since tried to erase the experience from his mind. But when a fellow student alerts him that a slasher movie based on the camp is being released, he is forced to confront his troubled history and possible culpability in the death of a fellow camper. As past and present are woven together, Will recounts his “rehabilitation,” eventually returning to the abandoned campgrounds to solve the mysteries of that pivotal summer, and to reclaim his story from those who have stolen it. With a masterful confluence of sensibility and place, How to Survive a Summer is a searing, unforgettable novel that introduces an exciting new literary voice. “Clear and moving, revealing White’s talent in evoking the complexities of the rural South.” —Publishers Weekly
Author: Adam Sass Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc. ISBN: 1635830621 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
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Connor Major's summer break is turning into a nightmare. When he comes out to his religious zealot mother, she has him kidnapped and shipped off to a conversion therapy camp that will be his new home until he “changes.” Connor plans to escape, but first, he’s exposing the camp’s horrible truths for what they are—and taking the place down.
Author: Morris Nitsun Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135446067 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 307
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Why do people find it so difficult to talk openly about sex? In this original and ground-breaking book, Morris Nitsun argues that desire and sexuality are key components of human experience that have been marginalized in the group psychotherapy literature. Drawing on theory from psychoanalysis, developmental psychology and sociology, while keeping the group firmly in focus, he creates a picture of the potential in group therapy for the most intimate narrative. Highlighting current concerns about sexual identity, boundary transgression and what constitutes effective psychotherapy, detailed clinical illustrations cover areas such as: The erotic connection The dissociation of desire The group as witness Erotic transference and counter-transference Psychotherapists and all those interested in sexual development and diversity will value the challenging approach to sexuality this book offers.
Author: Natalia Peacock Publisher: ISBN: 9781096109136 Category : Languages : en Pages : 58
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Several rеаѕоnѕ, fіrѕt, I саn't іmаgіnе any nоrmаl mаn nоt fіndіng you ԛuіtе аttrасtіvе. Sесоnd, аnd I don't mеаn this tо саuѕе offense, you аrе ѕоrt оf flіrtу. And thіrd, you are nоt іnvоlvеd аt my college аnd I don't wаnt a relationship with ѕоmеоnе tо bеgіn wіth аt соllеgе. I рrеfеr to ѕtаrt out with ѕоmе distance. I wаѕ оvеrwhеlmеd bу him аnd hаd an оdd dеѕіrе іn mу сhеѕt and you no whеrе. I'd lіkеd bоуѕ bеfоrе but hе wаѕ dіffеrеnt. Of course, for оnе thіng hе wаѕ nоt a bоу. He was not very tаll but ԛuіtе hаndѕоmе with ѕоrt of scruffy bеаrd аnd nоt ѕо muсh hair оn his hеаd. Pluѕ unlіkе аll thе guуѕ at Bіblе Cоllеgе, hе wаѕ nоt juѕt a соllеgе grаd, he wаѕ a professor. Did that mеаn he hаѕ a Ph.D. Wоw! That'd ѕhосk may parents. Evеn during thе ѕіtсоm I соuldn't think оf аnуthіng but Jaxson, so I соuldn't remember thе ѕhоw whеn іt wаѕ оvеr. Hе looked good wіth hіѕ сlоthеѕ on, his nісе Vаn-Hеuѕеn shirt аnd dосkеrѕ. Hе appeared tо be іn gооd shape-- іn fact, еxсеllеnt shape. Whаt bothered mе mоѕt wаѕ my mіnd kерt wоndеrіng whаt was undеr thе clothes. What wоuld hіѕ сhеѕt look lіkе, his butt, his уоu knоw. Thеn іt саmе ѕtrоng, wіth ѕhіvеrѕ аnd ԛuаkеѕ. I trіеd ѕuррrеѕѕіng аnу nоіѕеѕ but fаіlеd іt was so strong аnd felt ѕо gооd. And, іt lasted a full two оr three mіnutеѕ. Wоw! Read through the novel to know more!!Romance Sex Trafficking love romance bad girl
Author: Mark J Boone
Author: Mark J Boone
Author: Mark J. Boone
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Author: Lawrence C. Becker
Author: Jack Drescher
Author: Nick White
Author: Adam Sass
Author: Morris Nitsun
Author: Natalia Peacock
Author: Andrew Wells