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Category : Christian fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Moral Miscellany
Author: The Moral Miscellany, Or a Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth
Author: Nathanael Sigismund FrommannPublisher:
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Category : Youth
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Subordinated Ethics
Author: Caitlin Smith GilsonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532686412
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
With Dostoyevsky's Idiot and Aquinas' Dumb Ox as guides, this book seeks to recover the elemental mystery of the natural law, a law revealed only in wonder. If ethics is to guide us along the way, it must recover its subordination; description must precede prescription. If ethics is to invite us along the way, it cannot lead, either as politburo, or even as public orthodoxy. It cannot be smugly symbolic but must be by way of signage, of directionality, of the open realization that ethical meaning is en route, pointing the way because it is within the way, as only sign, not symbol, can point to the sacramental terminus. The courtesies of dogma and tradition are the road signs and guideposts along the longior via, not themselves the termini. We seek the dialogic heart of the natural law through two seemingly contradictory voices and approaches: St. Thomas Aquinas and his famous five ways, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's holy idiot, Prince Myshkin. It is precisely the apparent miscellany of these selected voices that provide us with a connatural invitation into the natural law as subordinated, as descriptive guide, not as prescriptive leader.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Moral Life of the Hebrews
Author: John Merlin Powis SmithPublisher:
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Category : Ethics, Jewish
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Popular Science Monthly
Author: An Economist’s Miscellany
Author: Kaushik BasuPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190990104
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
‘Philosophy has to be deductive, poetry romantic, plays and fiction humorous, and politics intriguing if they are to catch my attention,’ writes Kaushik Basu. All these interests are on display in An Economist’s Miscellany, which brings together an eclectic collection of writings on the world of academe, politics, policy, travel, and more. This book offers unique glimpses of the author’s engagement with the world: his opinions on contemporary policies and economic issues; his exploration of different parts of the world; and his reflections on people, ideas, and books that have influenced him. An Economist’s Miscellany also puts on display his literary forays—translations of two hilarious Bengali short stories and a four-act play on academe, love, and cultural misunderstandings. This second and much-expanded edition of the book features a new set of essays that reflects the author’s dual perspective of the world: one from the groves of academe and one from the olicymaker’s perch. In the world of policymaking, he was not just an observer but an active participant, and many of the new essays dwell on ideas gathered from this hands-on engagement.
Tottel's Miscellany
Author: Amanda HoltonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014193378X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Songs and Sonnets (1557), the first printed anthology of English poetry, was immensely influential in Tudor England, and inspired major Elizabethan writers including Shakespeare. Collected by pioneering publisher Richard Tottel, it brought poems of the aristocracy - verses of friendship, war, politics, death and above all of love - into wide common readership for the first time. The major poets of Henry VIII's court, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, were first printed in the volume. Wyatt's intimate poem about lost love which begins 'They flee from me, that sometime did me seke', and Surrey's passionate sonnet 'Complaint of a lover rebuked' are joined in the miscellany by a large collection of diverse, intriguingly anonymous poems both moral and erotic, intimate and universal.
Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England
Author: J. Carter WoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134332467
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical research and a broad survey of cutting-edge historical theory. The author discusses topics such as street fighting, policing, sports, community discipline and domestic violence and shows how the nineteenth century established enduring patterns in views of violence. Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers of modern British history, social and cultural history and criminology.
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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