Author: Benjamin ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The mental and moral dignity of woman
Author: Benjamin ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Mental and Moral Dignity of Women
Author: Benjamin PARSONSDignity
Author: Remy DebesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190677546
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it is only in the last century that this meaning of the term has become standardized. Before this, dignity was instead a concept associated with social status. Unfortunately, this transformation remains something of a mystery in existing scholarship. Exactly when and why did "dignity" change its meaning? And before this change, was it truly the case that we lacked a conception of human worth akin to the one that "dignity" now represents? In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to answer such questions by clarifying the presently murky history of "dignity," from classical Greek thought through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment to the present day.
Human Dignity and Bioethics
Author: Publisher: U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Contains a collection of essays exploring human dignity and bioethics, a concept crucial to today's discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular.
The Female's friend
Author: Associate institution for improving and enforcing the laws for the protection of womenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Letter to the Clergy of the Borough of Stroud; Containing a Reply to the Animadversions of One of Their Nameless Brethren on the Author
Author: Benjamin ParsonsThe Earnest Minister: a Record of the Life, and Selections from Posthumous and Other Writings of the Rev. B. Parsons, Etc
Author: Edwin Paxton HOODObserving God
Author: William J. AstorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351914170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Scottish theologian, educator, astronomer and popularizer of science, Thomas Dick (1774-1857) promoted a Christianized form of science to inhibit secularization, to win converts to Christianity, and to persuade evangelicals that science was sacred. His devotional theology of nature made radical claims for cultural authority. This book presents the first detailed analysis of his life and works. After an extended biographical introduction, Dick's theology of nature is examined within the context of natural theology, and also his views on the plurality of worlds, the nebular hypothesis and geology. Other chapters deal with Dick's use of aesthetics to shape social behaviour for millennial purposes, and with the publishing history of his works, their availability and their reception. In the final part, the author explores Dick's influence in America. His pacifism won him Northern evangelical supporters, while his writings dominated the burgeoning field of popular science, powerfully shaping science's cultural meaning and its uses.
Religion in Victorian Britain
Author: Gerald ParsonsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719051845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Provides an expansion of the first four volumes, containing both specially written essays and a related compilation of primary sources, drawn from the writings of the day. The text explores the wider context of religion in Victorian Britain, both in relation to the development of the Empire and its consequences. The introduction sets the scene and also provides an overview of scholarship on Victorian religion in the years since the first four volumes were published in 1988.
Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood
Author: Joan N. BurstynPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315444305
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This study, first published in 1980, argues that higher education for women was accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century, and higher education was becoming a desirable preparation for teachers in girls’ schools. By accepting the opponents’ claim that higher education for women had the potential to revolutionise relations between the sexes, this fascinating book demonstrates how the relevance of the nineteenth-century serves to enhance our understanding of the contemporary women’s movement. This title will be of interest to students of history and education.