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Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler Publisher: ISBN: 9781604190465 Category : Desire (Philosophy) Languages : en Pages : 0
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What is "moral" in the modern age? What is truly "ethical"? Adler skillfully separates "real" good from "apparent" good, and shows how excesses--like gluttony, or the lust for power--simply mistake the means for the ends. Drawing on the entire Western philosophical tradition, he tackles (and solves) some of the thorniest ethical problems facing the world today. This clear and straightforward book is geared toward the lay reader rather than the philosophy student.
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler Publisher: ISBN: 9781604190465 Category : Desire (Philosophy) Languages : en Pages : 0
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What is "moral" in the modern age? What is truly "ethical"? Adler skillfully separates "real" good from "apparent" good, and shows how excesses--like gluttony, or the lust for power--simply mistake the means for the ends. Drawing on the entire Western philosophical tradition, he tackles (and solves) some of the thorniest ethical problems facing the world today. This clear and straightforward book is geared toward the lay reader rather than the philosophy student.
Author: Grégoire Delacourt Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN: 9781780228235 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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Money can buy you freedom. But what about happiness? When Jocelyne looks at herself in the mirror, she sees a middle-aged, married woman who runs a dressmaking shop in a small provincial French town and lives a very ordinary existence. But what happened to all those dreams she had when she was seventeen? Then she wins millions on the lottery and has the chance to change her life for ever. So why does she find herself reluctant to accept the money? To help her decide what to do, she begins to compile a list of her heart's desires, never suspecting for one moment that the decision might be taken out of her hands ...
Author: Alex Gregory Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019884817X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 236
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What is it to want something? Or, as philosophers might ask, what is a desire?The idea that we explain and evaluate actions with essential reference to what people want is compelling, as it speaks to common-sense ideas that our wants lie at the heart of our decision-making. Yet our wants seem to have a competitor: our beliefs about what we ought to do. Such normative beliefsalone may often suffice to explain our actions. To try and resolve this tension, this book defends "desire as belief", the view that desires are just a special subset of our normative beliefs. This view entitles us to accept orthodox models of human motivation and rationality that explain thosethings with reference to desire, while also making room for our normative beliefs to play a role in those domains. This view also tells us to diverge from the orthodox view on which desires themselves can never be right or wrong. Rather, according to desire-as-belief, our desires can themselves beassessed for their accuracy, and they are wrong when they misrepresent normative features of the world. Hume says that it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of your finger, but he is wrong: it is foolish to prefer the destruction of the wholeworld to the scratching of your finger, precisely because this preference misrepresents the relative worth of these things. This book mounts an engaging and comprehensive defence of these ideas.
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110717645X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 337
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MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.
Author: Robert S. Hartman Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004496106 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 495
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This book presents Robert S. Hartman’s formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R.M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G.E. Moore, P.H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J.O. Urmson. Open Access funding for this volume has been provided by the Robert S. Hartman Institute.
Author: Kresley Cole Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1849834253 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 350
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Nothing will stop Cadeon of the Rage Demons from finding the means to atone for the one wrong that haunts him. But once he captures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, he finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends and then forget haunts him as much as his past. Raised as a human, Holly Ashwin never knew that some legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon, who inexplicably guards her like a treasure. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, with him as her protector, she begins to crave the Cade's wicked touch. Yet just when he earns Holly's trust, will Cade be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs - and claim his heart?
Author: Richard Harmon Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1606475371 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 158
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Desires of the Heart is about the completeness that God has brought to each of us through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. At the same time, it discusses some of the issues that cause Christians to be defeated in their everyday lives. It is predominately based on a simple truth: God's own Word has already established His promises about each of us, and if we will allow the truth of these promises to enter into the inner man, it changes the desires of our hearts and the direction of our lives. Likewise, the promises also have the capability of overpowering a sinful nature and making us exactly into the people that are pleasing to God. God will never change His mind about these promises and they are available for everyone who chooses to believe Him, because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The author had a somewhat religious upbringing and came to know salvation as a teenager. But preoccupation with the concerns of life caused him to have a mediocre understanding of what salvation really meant. Being weighed down with getting an education and working for a living, it would be years before he realized this lifestyle was not God's way for him. Through several events, it became apparent God wanted to carry these "cares" and have a closer relationship with him. It was during this time, through the Holy Spirit, he was led to quit his job, write a book called Desires of the Heart and have it published by Tree of Life. There was no such publishing company but 3 years later when the book was finished, God showed him Xulon Press. The Greek word xulon means, tree as it refers to Tree of Life in the Bible.
Author: Ronald A. Beers Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 1414307306 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 775
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The material in this book addresses a wide array of questions and then answers the questions according to insight found in the Bible. Inside The Complete Book of Life's Questions, you'll find hundreds of questions about real life—difficult questions people ask about abortion and abuse, sexuality and love, friendship and hope. This book is an excellent reference book that you'll pull off the shelf time and time again. Faith intersects with life. Let Scripture answer your questions using The Complete Book of Life's Questions.
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
Author: David Hume
Author: Grégoire Delacourt
Author: Alex Gregory
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre
Author: Robert S. Hartman
Author: Kresley Cole
Author: Richard Harmon
Author: Ronald A. Beers