Author: Joseph SugliaPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Logic of Self-sacrifice
Author: Joseph SugliaUnderstand Selfism: the Mythology of Self-Sacrifice
Author: Lorri CriscuoloPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Sacrifices are typically called for when values conflict--two valuable things cannot both be had and one must be given up for the sake of the other. But not all sacrifices are self-sacrifices. This book presents an opposing view from the perspective of logic and experience. You belong to you. The time of your existence is exclusively yours. We are taught to assign ourselves to the benefit of others, thus losing the recognition of who and what we really are.
Political Self-Sacrifice
Author: K. M. FierkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029236
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This book examines a variety of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning, and non-violent martyrdom.
Sacrifice and Moral Philosophy
Author: Marcel van AckerenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000080498
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The aim of this book is to foster a more explicit and direct discussion of the concept of sacrifice and its importance in moral philosophy. Acts of self-sacrifice have a special place in our moral lives. We admire and celebrate those who give up their lives so that others may live. Despite this important role that sacrifice plays in our moral thinking, moral philosophers have had surprisingly little to say about the nature of sacrifice. This lack of attention to the nature of sacrifice is particularly important given that sacrifice also has an important role to play in several key debates in moral philosophy. The chapters in this volume make an important contribution to our understanding of sacrifice in three areas. The first part of the book investigates the nature of sacrifice. The next group of chapters investigates the role of sacrifice in moral philosophy. Three of these pieces investigate the role of sacrifice in our moral lives generally, while two investigate the role of sacrifice in relation to particular moral theories. The final two chapters investigate the value of sacrifice in relation to political and theological issues. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
In a Different Voice
Author: Carol GilliganPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674445444
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day, in the academic world and beyond. Translated into sixteen languages, with more than 700,000 copies sold around the world, In a Different Voice has inspired new research, new educational initiatives, and political debate—and helped many women and men to see themselves and each other in a different light.Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women—their motives, their moral commitments, the course of their psychological growth, and their special view of what is important in life. Here she sets out to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result is truly a tour de force, which may well reshape much of what psychology now has to say about female experience.
In Defense of Selfishness
Author: Peter SchwartzPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137280166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Through an Ayn Randian lens, an uncompromising argument for rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism
And Then Your Soul is Gone
Author: Kelly Denton-BorhaugPublisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781800501041
Category : Militarism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The suffering of the morally injured veteran cannot be fully understood, nor effectively addressed, without a comprehensive investigation of moral injury's underlying causes in American culture and society.
Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France
Author: Thomas M. LennonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900440449X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The debate in 17th-century France between the Quietists and their opponents raised the question whether we should be willing to sacrifice the salvation of our own souls for love of another. Descartes’s views on freewill were cited by both sides.
Hölderlin and Blanchot on Self-sacrifice
Author: Joseph SugliaPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820472737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A scene of self-sacrifice can never be staged or secured. The work of Friedrich Hölderlin, arguably one of the most profound writers of the German Enlightenment, supports this idea in fascinating ways. Much of Hölderlin's critical reception, however, has the poet saying the exact opposite. Joseph Suglia counters the dominant critical reception of Hölderlin's Empedokles fragments, which would transform the tragic hero's experience of mortality into a project that would be accomplished in the name of the transcendent reconciliation of disparate spheres. This book also focuses on a densely detailed consideration of the work of the great French critic and literary artist, Maurice Blanchot, whose own treatment of self-sacrifice exists in closer proximity to Hölderlin's than the former appears to recognize. For Blanchot, it is argued, self-sacrifice is «a sacrifice that is an engagement with, in, and for language, a sacrifice that is both madness and mystery».
The Discovery of God
Author: David KlinghofferPublisher: Image
ISBN: 0307423921
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Fifty-three percent of the world’s population practices Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, religions that all trace their lineage to the towering, quasi-mythological figure of Abraham. In this reverent biography of the man who invented–or discovered–God, David Klinghoffer disentangles history from myth and uncovers the profound impact of Abraham’s message on his time and on the development of the modern world. The Discovery of God chronicles Abraham’s life from his birth in Mesopotamia through his travels as preacher and missionary throughout the Middle East. Many of the primary sites of Abraham’s life and career still exist, and Klinghoffer describes what they were like in ancient times and how they appear today. The tangible details of the polytheistic culture are re-created, showing how Abraham challenged the most basic beliefs of his contemporaries. He did not set out to establish the Jewish religion, but rather to spread the message of ethical monotheism as it was revealed to him–a powerful message that deepened over time, as did his faith and relationship with God. In contrast to many scholars who, troubled by its contradictions and apparent errors, see the Bible as the work of a series of scribes and editors, Klinghoffer argues that the Bible should be viewed as an esoteric text that an only be comprehended in light of the oral tradition from which it emanated. Combining rigorous scholarship and interpretive ingenuity, he draws on biblical commentary and the Jewish oral tradition as preserved by sages from the Talmudic scholars to Maimonidies to explore and explain the miraculous origins of monotheism. At a time when the world seems to moving toward a renewed confrontation between the three great Abrahamic faiths, The Discovery of God is a potent reminder of the history and beliefs that unite them.