In Search Of Humanity

Author : Andrea Radasanu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739184172

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This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of this virtue, by comparison with what came before and with attention to its development from early to late modernity, and up to the present.

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197524114

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Terrorist in Search of Humanity by Faisal Devji Pdf

Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy, such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by the same desire for agency and equality that animates other humanitarian interventions, such as environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant, victimized Muslims are more than just symbols of ethnic and religious persecution-they represent humanity's centuries-long struggle for legitimacy and agency. Acts of terror, therefore, are fueled by the militant's desire to become a historical actor on the global stage. Though they have yet to build concrete political institutions, militant movements have formed a kind of global society, and as Devji makes clear, this society pursues the same humanitarian objectives that drive more benevolent groups.

Author : John Macquarrie
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Caring
ISBN : 1859310052

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This is an XPRESS reprint, print-on-demand title from SCM Press.

Author : Dieter Buchhart,Elsy Lahner,Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777439649

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Ai Weiwei by Dieter Buchhart,Elsy Lahner,Klaus Albrecht Schröder Pdf

Author : Dieter Buchhart,Elsy Lahner,Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777438642

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Ai Weiwei by Dieter Buchhart,Elsy Lahner,Klaus Albrecht Schröder Pdf

A critical examination of the human condition and artistic responsibility through the eyes of Ai Weiwei. Internationally renowned for his multimedia work as an artist-activist, Ai Weiwei has become one of the foremost political artists today. Ai Weiwei: In Search of Humanity offers the reader an in-depth examination of the aspect of humanity and artistic responsibility in Ai Weiwei's work. The catalog includes key works from all phases of the artist's career, focusing on works that shed light on themes that have long compelled him: surveillance, censorship, human rights, freedom of expression, the global refugee crisis, radical responsibility, the power of beauty, and the truth of poetry. Guided by these concerns, it offers new perspectives to understand the relevance of Ai Weiwei's artistic language. It encompasses a wide range of art historical paradigms (such as the readymade) alongside more radical activist strategies, all aimed at exploring the extremes of the contemporary human condition on a global scale.

Author : Dieter Buchhart,Elsy Lahner,Klaus Albrecht Schröder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777439665

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Author : Ai Weiwei
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400890347

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Humanity by Ai Weiwei Pdf

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our time Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerful documentary filmmaker. His work and art call attention to attacks on democracy and free speech, abuses of human rights, and human displacement--often on an epic, international scale. This collection of quotations demonstrates the range of Ai Weiwei's thinking on humanity and mass migration, issues that have occupied him for decades. Selected from articles, interviews, and conversations, Ai Weiwei's words speak to the profound urgency of the global refugee crisis, the resilience and vulnerability of the human condition, and the role of art in providing a voice for the voiceless. Select quotations from the book: "This problem has such a long history, a human history. We are all refugees somehow, somewhere, and at some moment." "Allowing borders to determine your thinking is incompatible with the modern era." "Art is about aesthetics, about morals, about our beliefs in humanity. Without that there is simply no art." "I don't care what all people think. My work belongs to the people who have no voice."

Author : John Macquarrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015008805338

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Author : Dr Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen,Camilla Guldahl Cooper,Gro Nystuen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107021846

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Searching for a 'Principle of Humanity' in International Humanitarian Law by Dr Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen,Camilla Guldahl Cooper,Gro Nystuen Pdf

This book provides an examination of whether there is a legally independent 'principle of humanity' in international humanitarian law.

Author : Hugo Bonjean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0974764493

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In the Eyes of Anahita by Hugo Bonjean Pdf

Summary In the Eyes of Anahita, tells the story of a corporate executives awakening during a two-week business trip in South America where he gets confronted with both extreme richness and blatant poverty. During a number of mystical encounters with women of different ages, all of whom have the same dark, mysterious eyes, he is given two questions which he must answer in order to return balance to todays polarized world Are human beings being human? Is a global society a social globe? As he ponders these questions, he has a spiritual experience that helps him to transcend the duality between good and evil and discover his truth. Not only does this allow him to develop a holistic model for conducting business, but it helps him to refocus his life and integrate his souls purpose in all that he does so that he ultimately finds inner peace, harmony and happiness.

Author : David Sinclair
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Lost Superpowers of Ancient Humanity: In Search of the Prometheans by David Sinclair Pdf

Did alien astronauts visit the ancient earth or were the real "aliens" the ancient humans themselves? People today imagine that ancient humans were just like us, but at a more primitive stage of development. In fact, ancient humans were nothing like us. They had incredible abilities - superpowers - that we have now lost. We discarded them in the course of becoming modern, conscious humans, but these superpowers still lie latent in all of us, and can be recovered in the right circumstances. The ancient humans were the Prometheans, bridging the gap to the gods, and supremely well-versed in carrying the divine fire. They knew the secrets of the gods. Isn't it time to regain all of their lost knowledge and power?

Author : Camilla Gibb
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857893918

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The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb Pdf

The Beauty of Humanity Movement is a keenly observed and skillfully wrought novel about the reverberation of conflict through generations, the enduring legacy of art, and the redemption, and renewal, of long-lost love. Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi. As he leads bands of Westerners on 'war tours' through the scarred landscape of Vietnam, he wonders what it is that his clients see - and what they miss entirely. Maggie is Vietnamese by birth but has lived most her life in the U.S. Returning to her homeland, she sifts through history for clues as to the fate of her dissident father. Witness to both their stories, Old Man Hung has lived through decades of political upheaval. But Hung has found a way to provide hope in his waterside community: The Beauty of Humanity Movement.

Author : Ilana Feldman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822348214

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In the Name of Humanity by Ilana Feldman Pdf

Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.

Author : Carrie Jenkins
Publisher : Strange Light
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771049286

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Victoria Sees It by Carrie Jenkins Pdf

A queer psychological thriller from a beguiling, fresh new voice. Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems to care: there are clues all over Cambridge, but Deb is nowhere to be found--and the harder Victoria looks, the less she sees. Victoria is raised in a crumbling house in England by her working-class aunt and uncle, until her academic brilliance gains her entrance to Cambridge. There, she meets her first true friend, Deb, a spacey aristocrat, and the girls create their own tiny bubble within Cambridge's strict class system. Until Deb disappears. In her search for her friend, Victoria finds an unlikely ally--a police officer named Julie. They travel the countryside, visiting sites of suicides, murders, and accidents. But eventually, Julie's emotional demands overwhelm Victoria, and she retreats into a lonely life of academia, always teetering on the edge of emotional collapse. Wandering through a miasma of sexism, isolation, physical and mental health issues, Victoria's story is haunted by the spectre of her mother, whose own assault and subsequent pregnancy represent a break in her contract with the world.

Author : Mark Maslin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191009709

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The Cradle of Humanity by Mark Maslin Pdf

Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage. In this book Mark Maslin brings together the latest insights from hominin fossils and combines them with evidence of the changing landscape of the East African Rift Valley to show how all these factors led to selection pressures that favoured our ultrasocial brains. Astronomy, geology, climate, and landscape all had a part to play in making East Africa the cradle of humanity and allowing us to dominate the planet.