Author: Florence MarryatPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Master Passion
Author: Florence MarryatThe Master Passion
Author: MarryatThe Master Passion
Author: Florence MarryatMaster Passions
Author: Mihnea MoldoveanuPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262263764
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
An exploration of the powerful role of anxiety, ambition, and envy in shaping both our individual lives and society as a whole. At the heart of the human experience lies anxiety caused by the realization that the world is unknown, forever eluding our control. And out of this anxiety arises the master passions of ambition and envy, which we repress to mask their power over our lives. Discussion of the role of the emotions in our lives is not new, but Mihnea Moldoveanu and Nitin Nohria go much further, showing how these passions shape not only our individual lives but our social and organizational culture as well. The master passions are not pretty, and so we cover them with the more socially acceptable faces of reason and morality. Moldoveanu and Nohria guide the reader in revealing the real impetus behind such actions as firing a friend, leaving a lover, or even pillaging your own people. Below the rational explanation, they show, often lies a willingness to hurt or even destroy others to fuel our own ambitions or quench the fires of envy. The authors offer intriguing thought experiments and examples from their own lives as they expose the power of the master passions. Deftly weaving ideas from psychology (Sigmund Freud), sociology (Max Weber), literature (William Shakespeare, Albert Camus), and philosophy (David Hume, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche) with the personal, they build a strong argument that society would be much healthier if we faced the deception and self-deception that pervade our lives.
The Master Passion. A novel
Author: afterwards CHURCH MARRYAT (afterwards LEAN, Florence)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Master Passion. A Novel
Author: Florence Lean (formerly Church, formerly Marryat.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Master Passion
Author: Florence MarryatThe Master Passion
Author: Juliet WaldronPublisher:
ISBN: 9781771453844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Master Within
Author: Yun Xiang TsengPublisher: In the Garden Publishing DBA What Would Love Do in
ISBN: 9780985531454
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Trained in temples of Wudang Mountain as a child, for over 20 years now Master Chen has learned the way to communicate the little understood Taoist wisdom of the Eastern world to people in the West. During this time Master Chen has taught and befriended many of thousands of students. Master Chen's journey relates to all life journeys. Master Chen guides you in learning an ancient wisdom to live passionately with self and others. Through over 38 years of personal experiences of Master Chen, you learn the Taoist philosophy of living in a very easy and approachable manner without having to travel to the remote temples of Wudang Mountain.
A Master Passion, The Story of Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton
Author: Juliet WaldronPublisher:
ISBN: 9781771456746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Master Passion is the story of the marriage - called by some a misalliance - of Alexander Hamilton, our First Secretary of the Treasury, and Betsy Schuyler. Although born poor and illegitimate, Hamilton courts the daughter of Major General Schuyler, an American princess. Hamilton is one of a trinity of Founders who seem to have been created on purpose to invent our nation. Like all mission-driven men, he is preoccupied, often absent, and not the best provider. The trials of making ends meet and raising an ever growing troop of children are Betsy's. This woman-behind-the-man is barely known, but through war, Indian attacks, multiple births, epidemics, infidelity, unending politics and dire tragedy, Betsy is the force which holds the family together. Conflict is built into this marriage. It does not simply spring from Alexander's childhood experience of bastardy, abuse and abandonment. To quote Alexander Pope, his favorite poet: And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Betsy's passion is Alexander, but, sometimes, even more than this wife, Alexander loves America.