Enlightened Individualism

Author : Thomas J. Bussen,Henry Biggs,Timothy Bono
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781647123918

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Enlightened Self-Interest by Thomas J. Bussen,Henry Biggs,Timothy Bono Pdf

Insights into a compassionate alternative to a ruthlessly self-interested capitalist culture Societally sanctioned competition for money, power, and fame promotes selfishness, personal alienation, and widespread inequality, especially in market-oriented economies. Yet many of those engaging in this competitive individualism—the competition for rewards and limited resources—yearn to act directly to promote a more civil, equitable, and sustainable society. Enlightened Self-Interest offers evidence-based insights into the societal and individual consequences of this cultural practice and an actionable alternative to it. This meticulously researched and empirically rooted reexamination of hypercompetition and zero-sum thinking presents inspiring examples of people who have reclaimed their own lives by contributing to a more civil, equitable, and sustainable society. They model the vision of enlightened self-interest, merging self-interest with other interests in pursuit of the common good, resulting in widely shared benefits. Enlighted Self Interest provides a compelling case for incremental change and a series of actionable recommendations to jump-start a personal transition and to become part of a collective radical evolution.

Author : Kyle Garton-Gundling
Publisher : Literature, Religion, & Postse
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814213928

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Enlightened Individualism by Kyle Garton-Gundling Pdf

Reconciles seemingly conflicting views of Asian transcendence and American freedom to argue that post-WWII American writers envision a more enlightened individualism.

Author : Robert C. Gordon
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595158003

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Gospel of the Open Road by Robert C. Gordon Pdf

Gospel of the Open Road reclaims Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau as America’s spiritual birthright. It rescues them from literary history, and reveals them in their true light: as democracy’s prophets of the soul. Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau were religious seers who developed a new form of spirituality, and Gospel of the Open Road explains, in scholarly yet passionate fashion, the deep wisdom that is their enduring legacy. It presents them as a viable spiritual path for those who do not belong, and do not want to belong, to any organized religion.But this book does more. It draws fascinating parallels between the new spirituality taught by Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau and ancient spiritual wisdom as found in shamanism, Goddess worship, Tantra, Taoism, Confucianism, Vajrayana and Zen Buddhism, and Hinduism. This book is an evocative synthesis of humanity’s most venerable spiritual wisdom and the most modern of philosophical, social, psychological, political, scientific, and Humanistic concepts. It traces the New Age spiritual revolution to its source in Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau, and explains how to apply their spiritual teachings to our everyday life here on Earth.

Author : Harvey Chisick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810865488

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Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment by Harvey Chisick Pdf

The Enlightenment Movement changed society forever, driving it forward through new and fresh ways of thinking about science, religion, history, politics, and culture. This dictionary offers a balanced overview and helps us to understand and appreciate the Enlightenment through its coverage of the basic assumptions and values that structured the movement; explanation of how these ideas were articulated; the paths of communication they followed; how its key ideas grew, developed and were refracted; and how new problems grew out of what were advanced as solutions to older problems. An engaging introductory essay along with hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries defines the significant persons, places, events, institutions, and literary works of the movement. A chronological table charts the progression of the movement by indicating the date, the main figures involved, the political or society events, and the science, arts, or letters that resulted. The comprehensive bibliography, with an introductory essay to the literature, categorized by subject complements this reference that will be valued by all seeking basic details about this important period.

Author : Barry Alan Shain
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691224992

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The Myth of American Individualism by Barry Alan Shain Pdf

Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employed in Revolutionary-era sermons, public documents, newspaper editorials, and political pamphlets, Shain reveals a very different understanding--one based on a reformed Protestant communalism. In this context, individual liberty was the freedom to order one's life in accord with the demanding ethical standards found in Scripture and confirmed by reason. This was in keeping with Americans' widespread acceptance of original sin and the related assumption that a well-lived life was only possible in a tightly knit, intrusive community made up of families, congregations, and local government bodies. Shain concludes that Revolutionary-era Americans defended a Protestant communal vision of human flourishing that stands in stark opposition to contemporary liberal individualism. This overlooked component of the American political inheritance, he further suggests, demands examination because it alters the historical ground upon which contemporary political alternatives often seek legitimation, and it facilitates our understanding of much of American history and of the foundational language still used in authoritative political documents.

Author : Gene Callahan,Kenneth B. McIntyre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031052262

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Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited by Gene Callahan,Kenneth B. McIntyre Pdf

This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of “Enlightenment rationalism.” The subjects of the volume (including, among others, Pascal, Vico, Schmitt, Weber, Anscombe, Scruton, and Tolkien) do not share a philosophical tradition as much as a skeptical disposition toward the notion, common among modern thinkers, that there is only one standard of rationality or reasonableness, and that that one standard is or ought to be taken from the presuppositions, methods, and logic of the natural sciences. The essays on each thinker are intended not merely to offer a commentary on that thinker, but also to place the person in the context of this larger stream of anti-rationalist thought.

Author : Nicolas Vale
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781503592476

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Enlightenment Through Entitlement by Nicolas Vale Pdf

This book is an evolving theory about the human condition and the true nature of reality. The theory states the laws of human energy dynamics that include the premise that all human stress, depression, anxiety, and conflict come from the perceived unfair or unequal exchange of human energy. The theory put forth utilizes the laws of physics from the physical realm and translates these same laws into human beings and human behavior. The theory clearly states that all human behavior is one hundred percent defensive, protective, selfish, self-centered, self-serving and is done so the human in question can avoid, relieve, reduce, or eliminate all forms of conceivable human suffering (self-destructive and suicidal behavior explained). The more we feel threatened and consequently suffer, the more selfish we become. There are no such things as selflessness, sacrifice, martyrs, or heroes because everything a person does or thinks about himself or herself has the subconscious and/or conscious goal of relieving suffering. Everything is a defense against suffering. The theory/philosophy presented in this book explains why people act the way they do, and why life is a brutal, fierce competition for scarce, finite, ultimately impersonal, ultimately impartial, and ultimately neutral human energy. All inevitable stress and conflict come from the entitlement people feel for this powerful invisible force (human energy), and there just isnt enough to go around to satisfy each persons unique entitlement issues. Even though this book talks about an inherent order to human beings with regards to energy, it is a very spiritual book meant to help people make sense of their lives and take the mystery out of why things happen they way they do. Once the reader becomes enlightened (aware) to the true nature of reality, only then can the human species evolve to a place where we can talk about what we are experiencing here on earth accurately. The final frontier for mankind is not outer space as many people will have you think. The final frontier is the acceptance of a hierarchical structure to mankind, selfishness, self-interest and entitlement as a truth and a natural, normal part of human existence. The theories presented in this book will change the way you view reality forever. It is to your advantage to understand reality. This book is where science, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and spirituality overlap.

Author : Charly Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503604195

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The Virtues of Abandon by Charly Coleman Pdf

The Virtues of Abandon explores how eighteenth-century debates over the self's relationship to property gave rise to a previously unexamined anti-individualist tradition of thought and action that informed the work of mystics, materialists, and radical political thinkers during the French Enlightenment and the Revolution.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141927725

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Enlightenment by Roy Porter Pdf

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1083 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199668090

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Democratic Enlightenment by Jonathan Israel Pdf

That the Enlightenment shaped modernity is uncontested. Yet remarkably few historians or philosophers have attempted to trace the process of ideas from the political and social turmoil of the late eighteenth century to the present day. This is precisely what Jonathan Israel now does. In Democratic Enlightenment, Israel demonstrates that the Enlightenment was an essentially revolutionary process, driven by philosophical debate. The American Revolution and its concerns certainly acted as a major factor in the intellectual ferment that shaped the wider upheaval that followed, but the radical philosophes were no less critical than enthusiastic about the American model. From 1789, the General Revolution's impetus came from a small group of philosophe-revolutionnaires, men such as Mirabeau, Sieyes, Condorcet, Volney, Roederer, and Brissot. Not aligned to any of the social groups represented in the French National assembly, they nonetheless forged "la philosophie moderne"-in effect Radical Enlightenment ideas-into a world-transforming ideology that had a lasting impact in Latin America, Canada and Eastern Europe as well as France, Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries. In addition, Israel argues that while all French revolutionary journals powerfully affirmed that la philosophie moderne was the main cause of the French Revolution, the main stream of historical thought has failed to grasp what this implies. Israel sets the record straight, demonstrating the true nature of the engine that drove the Revolution, and the intimate links between the radical wing of the Enlightenment and the anti-Robespierriste "Revolution of reason."

Author : Harry Redner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351313988

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Beyond Civilization by Harry Redner Pdf

For Harry Redner, the phrase "beyond civilization" refers to the new and unprecedented condition the world is now entering‘specifically, the condition commonly known as globalization. Redner approaches globalization from the perspective of history and seeks to interpret it in relation to previous key stages of human development. His account begins with the Axial Age (700 300 BC) and proceeds through Modernity (after AD 1500) to the present global condition. What is globalization doing to civilization? In answering this question, Redner studies the role played by capitalism, the state, science and technology. He aims to show that they have had a catalytic impact on civilization through their reductive effect on society, culture, and individualism. However, Redner is not content to diagnose the ills of civilization; he also suggests how they might be ameliorated by cultural conservation. Above all, it is to the problem of decline in the higher forms of literacy that he addresses himself, for it is on the culture of the book that previous civilizations were founded. This study will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and social and political theorists. Its style makes it accessible also to general readers, interested in civilization past, present, and future.

Author : Andrew Shanks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134737277

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God and Modernity by Andrew Shanks Pdf

For the past four hundred years, theological debate has been dominated by a fundamental divide: between the liberals, with strong loyalties to the secularity of the secular state and university on the one hand, and the neo-orthodox, insisting on the absolute priority of a proper loyalty to the church community itself, on the other. God and Modernity strikes off in a fundamentally new directionAndrew Shanks boldly calls for a new and better way to do theology. Shanks argues that God is most present in a culture where public debate over ethical issues flourishes best. Social movements such as feminist movements, peace movements, and green movements have emerged to challenge both Church and State. These new movements are no longer confined to a particular confessional religious identity and are independent of state sponsorship. These social movements already made an individual impact on theology. What would a theology look like, systematically trying to reconcile older divisions in the theological debate with a new loyalty to such movements common ethos? Anyone wishing to gain a refreshing insight into a new way of understanding theology and politics will welcome this ground-breaking book.

Author : R. N. Vyas
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 8128808761

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A New Vision of History by R. N. Vyas Pdf

Author : Peter Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415110475

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Emile Durkheim by Peter Hamilton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004457225

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Ethical Dimensions of Legal Theory by Anonim Pdf