| Author | : Peter A. Pagan Aguiar |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780966922677 |
"Collection of essays on the metaphysical underpinnings of intellectual and individual freedom within a civic-political order or cultural milieu"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Paul A. Kottman |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2017-05-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 150360232X |
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life.
| Author | : Ron Highfield |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2012-11-29 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830864504 |
Ron Highfield traces the genealogy of the modern self from Plato, Descartes and Locke to Charles Taylor's landmark Sources of the Self. What emerges is a stark portrait of the modern ideal of self-governance and the crisis it provokes for a Christian view of human identity, freedom and dignity found in God.
| Author | : Robert Spitzer |
| Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2009-10-16 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 168149227X |
Father Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, has been using the principles in this book over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement. The tremendous positive response he has received inspired him to start the Life Principles Institute. This book is one of the key resources used for this program. This work effectively draws out the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. Relying on the wisdom of the ages and respecting the human persons' unique capacity for rational analysis, this work offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights and the Common Good.
| Author | : Michael Wesch |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2018-08-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781724963673 |
Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. "Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage," Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. "Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. ... It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one's hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a "heroic" profession." What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world's jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil. In this unique book, Dr. Michael Wesch shares many of his own adventures of being an anthropologist and what the science of human beings can tell us about the art of being human. This special first draft edition is a loose framework for more and more complete future chapters and writings. It serves as a companion to anth101.com, a free and open resource for instructors of cultural anthropology. This 2018 text is a revision of the "first draft edition" from 2017 and includes 7 new chapters.
| Author | : John F. Crosby |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780813208657 |
Crosby unfolds the mystery of personal uniqueness, shedding new light on the unrepeatability of each human person.
| Author | : Richard Eldridge |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2017-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0190847360 |
Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, systematic, but sharply opposed accounts of human powers and interests in freedom. A persistent constitutive tension between Kantian and Benjaminan ideals is woven through human life. By examining the two philosophers through this volume, Richard Eldridge attempts to make better sense of the commitment forming, commitment revising, anxious, reflective and acculturated human subjects we are.
| Author | : O. B. Hardison Jr. |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2019-12-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1421430894 |
Originally published in 1973. Toward Freedom and Dignity is a humanist's view of the humanities in an age of burgeoning technology. O. B. Hardison Jr. deals with the status of the humanities and their future—how they are regarded and how they may come to contribute to a genuinely humane society. He argues that humanistic studies are not a luxury in either education or society. They are central to the preparation of human beings for the kind of society that is possible if we manage to avoid an Orwellian technocracy. Social goals and priorities must be set in terms of the ideal of a culture truly adjusted to human needs and human limitations. In framing his argument, Hardison draws on ideas of the humanities since the Renaissance, especially on the philosophical humanities that emerged in Europe in the works of authors like Kant, Schiller, and Coleridge. He is untroubled by anti-humanistic trends in college curricula and the surrounding culture, and he contends that we have only one practical option: to ensure that culture evolves toward a more humane society, toward freedom and dignity.
