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Author: Bennett W. Helm Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191609986 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic strand in our understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought that persons are self-determining and autonomous, where these are understood to be capacities we exercise most fully on our own, apart from others, whose influence on us tends to undermine that autonomy. Love, Friendship, and the Self argues that we must reject a strongly individualistic conception of persons if we are to make sense of significant interpersonal relationships and the importance they can have in our lives. It presents a new account of love as intimate identification and of friendship as a kind of plural agency, in each case grounding and analyzing these notions in terms of interpersonal emotions. At the center of this account is an analysis of how our emotional connectedness with others is essential to our very capacities for autonomy and self-determination: we are rational and autonomous only because of and through our inherently social nature. By focusing on the role that relationships of love and friendship have both in the initial formation of our selves and in the on-going development and maturation of adult persons, Helm significantly alters our understanding of persons and the kind of psychology we persons have as moral and social beings.
Author: Bennett W. Helm Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191609986 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic strand in our understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought that persons are self-determining and autonomous, where these are understood to be capacities we exercise most fully on our own, apart from others, whose influence on us tends to undermine that autonomy. Love, Friendship, and the Self argues that we must reject a strongly individualistic conception of persons if we are to make sense of significant interpersonal relationships and the importance they can have in our lives. It presents a new account of love as intimate identification and of friendship as a kind of plural agency, in each case grounding and analyzing these notions in terms of interpersonal emotions. At the center of this account is an analysis of how our emotional connectedness with others is essential to our very capacities for autonomy and self-determination: we are rational and autonomous only because of and through our inherently social nature. By focusing on the role that relationships of love and friendship have both in the initial formation of our selves and in the on-going development and maturation of adult persons, Helm significantly alters our understanding of persons and the kind of psychology we persons have as moral and social beings.
Author: Daniel Schwartz Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199205396 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 208
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Daniel Schwartz presents and examines the thoughts of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas on the subject of friendship - the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Using examples from the world of human relationships and politics and highlighting the contemporary relevance of texts that are not readily available to scholars, Schwartz facilitates access to the ideas of this great thinker.
Author: Yelena Baraz Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0197531598 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 347
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Pride is pervasive in Roman texts, as an emotion and a political and social concept implicated in ideas of power. This study examines Roman discourse of pride from two distinct complementary perspectives. The first is based on scripts, mini-stories told to illustrate what pride is, how it arises and develops, and where it fits within the Roman emotional landscape. The second is semantic, and draws attention to differences between terms within the pride field. The peculiar feature of Roman pride that emerges is that it appears exclusively as a negative emotion, attributed externally and condemned, up to the Augustan period. This previously unnoticed lack of expression of positive pride in republican discourse is a result of the way the Roman republican elite articulates its values as anti-monarchical and is committed, within the governing class, to power-sharing and a kind of equality. The book explores this uniquely Roman articulation of pride attributed to people, places, and institutions and traces the partial rehabilitation of pride that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change. Reading for pride produces innovative readings of texts that range from Plautus to Ausonius, with major focus on Cicero, Livy, Vergil, and other Augustan poets.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles against Judge Alcee L. Hastings Publisher: ISBN: Category : Judges Languages : en Pages : 1508
Author: Regan Blanton King Publisher: Abbott Press ISBN: 1458221571 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 108
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Millennials are an odd breed. They often feel misunderstood, and others admit to finding them hard to understand. This is true also for those of the generation who profess a belief in Christ (even though they might question the label Christian for various reasons). In #TBH, author Regan Blanton King seeks to encourage his fellow millennials to wake up (before 2:00 p.m.) and smell the coffee (single-origin fair trade pour-over). Millennials must challenge themselves to be better and do better for God, family, country, and self. King does not hold back in highlighting millennial problems. While this examination of millennial lifestyles acknowledges feelings common to the generation, it focus is not feelings but rather facts. King desires millennials to be awakened to objective facts that can then impact and change how they feel and relate to the world around them. Written from a Christian perspective and aimed at millennials and those hoping to understand them, this self-help guide advises a generation of people to grow up, get real, and get a life.
Author: Zoltán Kövecses Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027279276 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 157
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This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and (4) a category of cognitive models, with a prototypical model in the center. This goes against an influential view of the structure of concepts in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, according to which the structure of a concept can be represented by a small number of sense components.
Author: Amélie Rorty Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520033092 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 344
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In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity, edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975)
Author: Bennett W. Helm
Author: Bennett W. Helm
Author: Charles Garvice
Author: Daniel Schwartz
Author: Yelena Baraz
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Impeachment Trial Committee on the Articles against Judge Alcee L. Hastings
Author: Regan Blanton King
Author: United States. National Labor Relations Board
Author: Zoltán Kövecses
Author: Amélie Rorty
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