Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Families

Author : Stanley Vodraska
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780761864257

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Philosophical Essays concerning Human Families by Stanley Vodraska Pdf

In Philosophical Essays concerning Human Families, Stanley Vodraska describes a principle of moral practice that he calls “the principle of familial preference.” In ordinary circumstances, a moral agent should persistently provide preferential treatment to members of his or her family and should not pursue the good of extra-familial persons to such an extent as to disadvantage or neglect his or her family. The essays uncover this principle in human practices of love or charity, mercy, justice, and prudence, and measure its weight in religion, moral philosophy, and the political order.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Pdf

Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves. As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and eloquence, and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections. They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples. They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Georg Olms Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 3487077094

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Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Pdf

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486113050

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Pdf

One of philosophy's most widely read books and the best introduction to Hume's other works, this 1748 treatise offers an accessible account of the author's provocative notions about the limitations of the mind. Topics include the logical coexistence of free will and determinism and the deficiencies of religious doctrine.

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725251939

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Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage by Matthew Levering Pdf

This book is the next volume in Levering’s Engaging Doctrine series. The prior volume of the series examined the doctrine of creation. The present volume examines the purpose of creation: the marriage of God and humans. God created the cosmos for the purpose of the marriage of God and his people—and through his people, the marriage of God and the entire creation. Given that the central meaning or “prime analogate” of marriage is the marriage of God and humankind, the study of human marriage needs to be shaped by this eschatological goal and foregrounded as a dogmatic theme. After a first chapter defending and explaining the biblical witness to the marriage of God and his people, the book explores various themes: marriage as an image of God, original sin as the fall of the primordial marriage, the cross of Jesus Christ and marital self-sacrificial love, the procreative and unitive ends of marriage, marriage as a sacrament, and marriage’s importance for social justice and for the upbuilding of the kingdom of God. Along the way, the book provides an introduction to the key biblical, patristic, medieval, modern, and contemporary thinkers and controversies regarding the doctrine of marriage.

Author : Alison Diduck,Noam Peleg,Helen Reece
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004261495

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Law in Society: Reflections on Children, Family, Culture and Philosophy by Alison Diduck,Noam Peleg,Helen Reece Pdf

This collection, written by legal scholars from around the world, offers insights into a variety of topics from children’s rights to criminal law, jurisprudence, medical ethics and more. Its breadth reflects the fact that these are all elements of what can broadly be called ‘law and society’, that enterprise that is interested in law’s place or influence in diffferent aspects of real lives and understands law to be simultaneously symbol, philosophy and action. It also testament to the broad range of vision of Professor Michael Freeman, in whose honour the volume was conceived. The contributions are divided into categories which reflect his distinguished career and publications, over 85 books and countless articles, including pioneering work on children’s rights, domestic violence, religious law, jurisprudence, law and culture, family law and medicine, ethics and the law, as well as his enduring commitment to interdisciplinarity.

Author : Isaac Gregory Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Dissenters, Religious
ISBN : BL:A0023448805

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Faith and philosophy. Essays on some tendencies of the day by Isaac Gregory Smith Pdf

Author : Franz W. Kellermanns,Frank Hoy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317419990

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The Routledge Companion to Family Business by Franz W. Kellermanns,Frank Hoy Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Family Business offers a definitive survey of a field that has seen rapid growth in research in recent years. Edited by leading scholars with contributions from the top minds in family business from around the world, this volume provides researchers and scholars with a comprehensive understanding of the state of the discipline. Over 25 chapters address a wide variety of subjects, providing readers with a thorough review of the key research themes in the modern family firm, such as corporate social responsibility and bank debt rationing. International examples cover a wide range of economies including China, Europe, and Latin America. The book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates and business instructors seeking a definitive view of the issues and solutions that affect and support family business.

Author : Robert Craig
Publisher : Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1632682117

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The Good Life and Other Philosophical Essays on Human Nature by Robert Craig Pdf

I believe my long essay, �The Good Life,� and the companion essays contain important insights into understanding the difficulties in setting specific prescriptions and proscriptions for normative behavior, for understanding our nature and what is meant by virtuous behavior, and for leading the Good Life. The discussion is developed along five human life modes: health, need to work to satisfy our basic and secondary needs, morality and its quest for equality or fairness, political implementation, and aesthetic and religious experience. It is couched in the understanding that our Good Life must be consistent with our nature, in the Classical Greek sense. My acceptance of rationality, free will, and a moral sense is basic to the discussion, as reason cannot prove reasonableness, and normative discourse cannot occur without this moral sense. I show conflicts among the five categories with examples such as that between the ethical dictum not to kill, and our need to protect our family and us from harm. These conflicts also occur among our virtues, for example that between courage and prudence, and between unrestricted liberty and the quest for equality. The conflicts are confounding, but they do not preclude our elucidating how they ought to be resolved.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004355323

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Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Inspired by Jill Kraye’s many contributions to European intellectual history, this volume presents a diverse collection of studies in Renaissance philosophy and humanism by leading experts in the field.

Author : Олег Арин / Алекс Бэттлер
Publisher : SCHOLARICA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Love, Family, and the State: Philosophical-sociological Essay by Олег Арин / Алекс Бэттлер Pdf

The problems of love, family, and state are topics that are widely discussed both in the West and in Russia. This essay, however, differs from all previous research work in that Alex Battler elevated the well-known words “love,” “family” and “marriage” to the level of concepts. This enabled the author to correlate them to the conception of force and progress he had substantiated in the book Dialectics of Force: Ontóbia, and ultimately to define the regular connection between the destruction of marriage and the collapse of a state within the context of the law of entropy growth, or “the law of death.”

Author : James Fieser
Publisher : James Fieser
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses by James Fieser Pdf

This work is a supplement to the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.

Author : James Fieser
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 184371115X

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Early Responses to Hume's Life And Reputation by James Fieser Pdf

This set presents dozens of early biographically-related discussions of Hume in their most complete form, reset, annotated and introduced by James Fieser. It includes anecdotes, discussions of Hume as an infidel, and fictitious dialogues in which Hume is a character. It also contains newly discovered accounts of Hume's alleged secret deathbed anguish, and the most detailed bibliography yet of eighteenth and nineteenth-century responses to Hume. The final volume concludes with an index to the complete ten-volume collection.

Author : James Fieser
Publisher : James Fieser
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Early Responses to Hume’s Life and Reputation: Part 1 by James Fieser Pdf

This work is the ninth in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.

Author : David William Archard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351760652

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Children, Family and the State by David William Archard Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. This book critically examines the moral and political status of the child by a consideration of three interrelated questions: What rights if any does the child have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child do parents have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child does the state have? David Archard adopts three areas for particular discussion on the practical implications of the general theoretical issues: education, child protection policy, and the medical treatment of children. Providing a clear legal context and a sharper, contemporary discussion of the question of rights, this book presents a clear introduction to the key issues in the moral and political status of children.