Beautiful Justice

Author : Brooke Axtell
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781580058254

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Beautiful Justice by Brooke Axtell Pdf

A story of healing and a guide to seeking justice after sexual abuse from Brooke Axtell, one of the foremost survivor experts on sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking When Brooke Axtell was seven years old, her nanny subjected her to sex trafficking. Today, she is a champion and advocate for women around the world who have experienced sexual violence and trauma. Beautiful Justice shares Brooke's own gripping story, both the trauma of sex trafficking and also her pathway through healing, moving on, and reclaiming power. Along the way, she imparts warm wisdom for others who have experienced similar violence, providing lessons from her own life and from the thousands of women, advocates, and lawmakers she's spoken with. Relying on her own experiences and a keen awareness of public policy, she provides a clear-eyed awareness of the ways that our culture and government work against women experiencing violence around the world. Inspiring and powerfully redemptive, Brooke encourages readers to take part in a creative resistance as a path to justice.

Author : Patrick T. McCormick
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780814680629

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God's Beauty by Patrick T. McCormick Pdf

What if we began our study of Christian ethics not with an examination of our moral duties but with an exploration of the call of beauty? For like justice, beauty generates a call to a larger, more generous self. In Gods Beauty, Patrick McCormick asks:How does the beauty of the righteous community manifest the glory of God?How can we imitate and improve this beauty by reforming our own societies? What fundamental need and right do all of us, especially the poor, have to experience and create beauty in our lives and communities? Why is it also essential to our own humanity that we recognize and treasure the beauty of the stranger, alien, and foe, and resist every effort to render these unrecognized neighbors ugly? McCormick offers a fresh, positive approach to moral arguments calling us to work for social justice. Instead of laying out the evils of failing to work for justice, protect human rights, overcome alienation and hostility, or tend to the earth, Gods Beauty focuses on the calling of divine beauty summoning us to be tenders and creators of beauty.

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509515134

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Saving Beauty by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, from Jeff Koon's sculptures and the iPhone to Brazilian waxing. Reaching far deeper than our superficial reactions to viral videos and memes, Han reclaims beauty, showing how it manifests itself as truth, temptation and even disaster. This wide-ranging and profound exploration of beauty, encompassing ethical and political considerations as well as aesthetic, will appeal to all those interested in cultural and aesthetic theory, philosophy and digital media.

Author : Jane Baun,Markus Vinzent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Bible
ISBN : 904292375X

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St Augustine and His Opponents by Jane Baun,Markus Vinzent Pdf

Papers presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2007 (sse also Studia Patristica 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

Author : Proclus
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Proclus on the Good, the Just, and the Beautiful by Proclus Pdf

Man performs many things for the sake of personal gain, health, and riches and, surveying the good which they contain, abandons the love of justice. Because the just subsists in the soul, the profitable will also be in the soul. Where our good resides, there also we have our being. For, where the form of man is, there also is the perfection of man. In soul therefore is the man, not in body. The desire of the good preserves those by whom it is desired. The good is bound in souls according to the just, through the beautiful which is their medium and bond. The good lives in the gods, the beautiful in intellects, the just in souls. Being–life–intellect is the first triune procession from the ineffable Cause of All. Being is superior to life, and life to intellect. What is just is good and vice versa: the beautiful is their medium and bond. What is just is true and vice versa: for, Justice is Truth. The just maintains order and harmony about the whole soul. Justice is the source of beauty to the soul, and is itself beautiful. The just gives empire to reason, and servitude to the irrational nature. The just is at one and the same time perfect, moderate, bounded, and beautiful. Everything just, therefore, is beautiful. Everything beautiful is good and vice-versa. The beautiful is naturally lovely because it calls others to itself and charms those who can behold it. It agitates souls at first sight while retaining a vestige of divine beauty. Let no one say that the good is above beauty. They both live within us, they are rightly desirable, and can be obtained through love.

Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493415465

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On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior Pdf

★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Martha McMinn
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490716572

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Finding Justice by Martha McMinn Pdf

Finding Justice explores the challenges faced by Joe Benedict, a successful young attorney from Savannah, Georgia. Joe takes on the appeal of a death row inmate and is shattered when his client is executed. He has an emotional breakdown and eventually ends up in Portland, Oregon, where he finds an abandoned rottweiler puppy he names Justice. Justice helps him start his road toward healing. Just when he thinks he has found a new life, he receives a phone call from his best friend in Savannah who has been accused of murder by the same prosecutor responsible for the execution of his client. Joe returns to Savannah with Justice and sets about to right a terrible wrong and regain his life.

Author : George GROTE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025146634

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Plato, and the other Companions of Sokrates, etc by George GROTE Pdf

Author : Jarem Sawatsky
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780718842949

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Justpeace Ethics by Jarem Sawatsky Pdf

Too often when people enter into conflict with an eye on how to resolve it, manage it or transform it, they lose sight of the people involved and the desired end. Too often justice and peace serve as an ideal or some distant shore. We have not yet learned enough about how these ends can also be the means of restorative justice and peacebuilding. Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, this book identifies components of a justpeace imagination. This imagination is the basis of justpeace ethics, where the end goal is touched with each step. This simple little book is designed to help those struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in an ethical and transformative way. It offers practical examples of how analysis, intervention and evaluation of peacebuilding and restorative justice can be rooted in imagination of justpeace ethics.

Author : Alexiadou, Artemis,Arnhold, Anja,Bacskai-Atkari, Julia,Bayer, Josef,Bierwisch, Manfred,Błaszczak, Joanna,Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina,Brown, Jessica M. M,Cavar, Damir,Féry, Caroline,Fominyam, Henry,Gafos, Adamantios,Georgi, Doreen,Haider, Hubert,Häussler, Jana,Meinunger, André,Mucha, Anne,Müller, Gereon,Olsen, Susan,Rauh, Gisa,Schlesewsky, Matthias,Schmidt, Andreas,Šimík, Radek,Skopeteas, Stavros,Staudacher, Peter,Stede, Manfred,Stiebels, Barbara,Thiersch, Craig,Titov, Elena,Tran, Thuan,Weskott, Thomas,Wierzba, Marta,Wunderlich, Dieter,Zimmermann, Ilse,Zimmermann, Malte
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783869564579

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Of Trees and Birds by Alexiadou, Artemis,Arnhold, Anja,Bacskai-Atkari, Julia,Bayer, Josef,Bierwisch, Manfred,Błaszczak, Joanna,Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina,Brown, Jessica M. M,Cavar, Damir,Féry, Caroline,Fominyam, Henry,Gafos, Adamantios,Georgi, Doreen,Haider, Hubert,Häussler, Jana,Meinunger, André,Mucha, Anne,Müller, Gereon,Olsen, Susan,Rauh, Gisa,Schlesewsky, Matthias,Schmidt, Andreas,Šimík, Radek,Skopeteas, Stavros,Staudacher, Peter,Stede, Manfred,Stiebels, Barbara,Thiersch, Craig,Titov, Elena,Tran, Thuan,Weskott, Thomas,Wierzba, Marta,Wunderlich, Dieter,Zimmermann, Ilse,Zimmermann, Malte Pdf

Gisbert Fanselow’s work has been invaluable and inspiring to many ­researchers working on syntax, morphology, and information ­structure, both from a ­theoretical and from an experimental perspective. This ­volume comprises a collection of articles dedicated to Gisbert on the occasion of his 60th birthday, covering a range of topics from these areas and beyond. The contributions have in ­common that in a broad sense they have to do with language structures (and thus trees), and that in a more specific sense they have to do with birds. They thus cover two of Gisbert’s major interests in- and outside of the linguistic world (and ­perhaps even at the interface).

Author : Victor Cousin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:24503415348

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Elements of Psychology by Victor Cousin Pdf

Author : Jill Frank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226515809

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Poetic Justice by Jill Frank Pdf

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato’s dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At the center of these insights are two distinct ways of learning to read in the dialogs. One approach that appears in the Statesman, Sophist, and Protagoras, treats learning to read as a top-down affair, in which authoritative teachers lead students to true beliefs. Another, recommended by Socrates, encourages trial and error and the formation of beliefs based on students’ own fallible experiences. In all of these dialogs, learning to read is likened to coming to know or understand something. Given Plato’s repeated presentation of the analogy between reading and coming to know, what can these two approaches tell us about his dialogs’ representations of philosophy and politics? With Poetic Justice, Jill Frank overturns the conventional view that the Republic endorses a hierarchical ascent to knowledge and the authoritarian politics associated with that philosophy. When learning to read is understood as the passive absorption of a teacher’s beliefs, this reflects the account of Platonic philosophy as authoritative knowledge wielded by philosopher kings who ruled the ideal city. When we learn to read by way of the method Socrates introduces in the Republic, Frank argues, we are offered an education in ethical and political self-governance, one that prompts citizens to challenge all claims to authority, including those of philosophy.

Author : Mary P. Nichols
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780268205447

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Aristotle's Discovery of the Human by Mary P. Nichols Pdf

Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human offers a fresh, illuminating, and accessible analysis of one of the Western philosophical tradition’s most important texts. In Aristotle’s Discovery of the Human, noted political theorist Mary P. Nichols explores the ways in which Aristotle brings the gods and the divine into his “philosophizing about human affairs” in his Nicomachean Ethics. Her analysis shows that, for Aristotle, both piety and politics are central to a flourishing human life. Aristotle argues that piety provides us not only an awareness of our kinship to the divine, and hence elevates human life, but also an awareness of a divinity that we cannot entirely assimilate or fathom. Piety therefore supports a politics that strives for excellence at the same time that it checks excess through a recognition of human limitation. Proceeding through each of the ten books of the Ethics, Nichols shows that this prequel to Aristotle’s Politics is as theoretical as it is practical. Its goal of improving political life and educating citizens and statesmen is inseparable from its pursuit of the truth about human beings and their relation to the divine. In the final chapter, which turns to contemporary political debate, Nichols’s suggestion of the possibility of supplementing and deepening liberalism on Aristotelian grounds is supported by the account of human nature, virtue, friendship, and community developed throughout her study of the Ethics.

Author : Michael J Coyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136184772

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Talking Criminal Justice by Michael J Coyle Pdf

The words we use to talk about justice have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. As the first in-depth, ethnographic study of language, Talking Criminal Justice examines the speech of moral entrepreneurs to illustrate how our justice language encourages social control and punishment. This book highlights how public discourse leaders (from both conservative and liberal sides) guide us toward justice solutions that do not align with our collectively professed value of "equal justice for all" through their language habits. This contextualized study of our justice language demonstrates the concealment of intentions with clever language use which mask justice ideologies that differ greatly from our widely espoused justice values. By the evidence of our own words Talking Criminal Justice shows that we consistently permit and encourage the construction of people in ways which attribute motives that elicit and empower social control and punishment responses, and that make punitive public policy options acceptable.This book will be of interest to academics, students and professionals concerned with social and criminal justice, language, rhetoric and critical criminology.

Author : George Grote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00129644

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Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote Pdf