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Author: Leonid Goutsalenko Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 145687084X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 287
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The readers: a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, PhD, professor A.N. Danilov, PhD, professors Y.A. Gousev, A.N. Elsukov, P.G. Martysuk. An eternally actual problem of Good and Evil is considered in the context of a great idea of an ancient Greek thinker Protagoras, the author of the Constitution of one of the first world democracies, a founder of social philosophy, a contemporary of Socrates. Unfortunately, the sense of his doctrine, enclosed in the formula “man is the measure of all things”, has not yet investigated enough and estimated at its true worth in proportion to significance for the fate of man and the mankind. In the suggested publication this idea is being uncovered as a measured principle of a social reality construction, and internal antipathy of man’s measure– as the main source of self-movement of individual and social forms of people’s life, the main reason of their achievements and failure. The book is intended for researchers in the humanities and natural sciences, teachers, graduate students, students – everyone who is interested in what is happening in our extremely unsettled world and why.
Author: Thomas Hurka Professor of Philosophy University of Calgary Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198024185 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 238
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Perfectionism is one of the great moralities of the Western tradition. It holds that certain states of humans, such as knowledge, achievement, and friendship, are good apart from any pleasure they may bring, and that the morally right act is always the one that most promotes these states. Defined more narrowly, perfectionism identifies the human good by reference to human nature: if knowledge and achievement are good, it is because they realize aspects of human nature. This book gives an account of perfectionism, first in the narrower sense, analyzing its central concepts and defending a theory of human nature in which rationality plays a central role. It then uses this theory to construct an elaborate account of the intrinsic value of beliefs and actions that embody rationality, and applies this account to political questions about liberty and equality. The book attempts to formulate the most defensible version of perfectionism, using contemporary analytic techniques. It aims both to regain for perfectionism a central place in contemporary moral debate and to shed light on the writings of classical perfectionists such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and T.H. Green.
Author: S. A. Lloyd Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521861675 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 437
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In this book, S. A. Lloyd offers a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's laws of nature, revealing them to be not egoistic precepts of personal prudence but rather moral instructions for obtaining the common good. This account of Hobbes's moral philosophy stands in contrast to both divine command and rational choice interpretations. Drawing from the core notion of reciprocity, Lloyd explains Hobbes's system of "cases in the law of nature" and situates Hobbes's moral philosophy in the broader context of his political philosophy and views on religion. Offering ingenious new arguments, Lloyd defends a reciprocity interpretation of the laws of nature through which humanity's common good is secured.
Author: St Thomas Aquinas Publisher: Cosimo, Inc. ISBN: 160206556X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 593
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"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225 1274), widely considered the Catholic Church s greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinas s masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume II, Aquinas addresses: happiness good and evil love and hatred hope and despair anger virtue sin and grace and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."
Author: Werner Marx Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226509211 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 192
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The search for an ethics rooted in human experience is the crux of this deeply compassionate work, here translated from the 1983 German edition. Distinguished philosopher Werner Marx provides a close reading, critique, and Weiterdenken, or "further thinking," of Martin Heidegger's later work on death, language, and poetry, which has often been dismissed as both obscure and obscurantist. In it Marx seeks, and perhaps finds, both a measure for distinguishing between good and evil and a motive for preferring the former. The poet Hölderlin posed the question, "Is there a measure on earth?" His own answer was emphatic, "There is none," for he was convinced that the measure for man was to be found only in the domain of the heavenly beings. Such metaphysical assumptions, as well as the attempt to found ethical conduct in the nature of man as a rational being, have been rejected by many contemporary thinkers, particularly Heidegger. Yet these thinkers have not been able to provide a satisfactory alternative to metaphysical foundations of the standards for responsible human conduct. Marx, therefore, goes beyond Heidegger in demonstrating how several of his most basic notions could be relevant to a secular morality in our age. It is death, Marx claims, that unsettles man and transforms his conduct toward his fellow man. the common experience of mortality nourishes ethical life—and leads to the measures of compassion, love, and recognition of one's fellow human beings. "It is only on the basis of these 'traditional virtues,'" Marx writes, "that we can find a motive for averting the impending dangers which have often enough been described so vividly and convincingly."
Author: Khwaja Kamaluddin Publisher: Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam Lahore USA ISBN: 1934271306 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 175
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First published in 1925 from the Woking Muslim Mission in England, this book presents the noble character and high moral qualities of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, showing him to be the Ideal Prophet in every sense.
Author: Emokiniovo Edwin Publisher: E.E Scripts ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 485
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From the Studio that published its first literary Christian theological exegesis termed, “Explaining the terminologies of the Spirit”, comes its first fictional screen-played book called; The Ace Man “House of Cards”. For the graphical novel. Delve into the world of organised crime, politics, and espionage, with the Ace man “House of cards” crime fictional screenplay, situated in the contemporary era of the continent of Africa. Nicholas Udah returns in another breathtaking crime adventurous story, as The Ace man “House of Cards” picks up five years after the events of “Project Calypso.” Nick and his brother Joseph, and Carlo, are approached by Amanda to pull off an identity theft that could see them off into great fortunes. The heist goes south—leading up to the death of his elder brother, Joseph. After two years in Kamiti Downs, Nick seeks retribution over the death of Joseph, but along the way, he makes new friends and foes in his quest to find his brother’s assailant. And every choice he makes, pulls him closer to the deep state shadow organisation, called THE UNION. The Ace Man “House of Cards” is a self-contained fictional story that somewhat compliments “Project Calypso”. But it is a stand-alone story on its own.
Author: Leonid Goutsalenko
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Author: Thomas Hurka Professor of Philosophy University of Calgary
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Author: Werner Marx
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