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Author : PHARCELLUS. CHURCH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033113654
Author : Pharcellus Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Benevolence
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50192435
Author : Tom Aerwyn Roberts
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005780203
Author : Robert Spaemann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567042316
Christian philosopher Robert Spaemann takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principles of ethics. Writing in a clear style accessible to non-specialists, drawing both on ancient and modern philosophy, from Aristotle, Plato and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel, he discovers the intimate relationship between ethics and ontology - the science of being. This book is written for theologians as well as philosophers - indeed for anyone who is concerned with the meaning of a 'life well lived', with good and evil and the search for happiness.
Author : Pharcellus Church
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359228691
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Author : T. A. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Benevolence
ISBN : 0033120552
Author : Pharcellus 1801-1886 Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
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Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373408464
Author : Pharcellus Church
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1330584856
Excerpt from The Philosophy of Benevolence This work is designed for men of conscience and common sense, for men who desire to subjugate their physical existence to the higher sanctions of reason and divine revelation. Such as have not the moral courage to attempt an achievement of this exalted character, or who prefer to float with the current of passion, customs, and habit, rath erthan suffer the inconvenience of resisting it, will derive little advantage from its perusal. To those, however, who profess to live for eternity, who seek for the triumph of mind over matter; or even to those whose self-love would lead them to prefer what is upon the whole best to every injurious gratification of present feelings, we trust that these pages will prove not only interesting, but of service in accomplishing the high purposes of their existence. If a pagan historian could record for the instruction of posterity, that "the true use of riches is to employ them so that they may be for the owner's honor," and a heathen emperor could say in sorrow of the day in which no notable action for the good of others was performed, "I have lost a day," what should be the feelings of Christians, who have no plans for making either time or money subserve the interests of that world for whom their Master gave his life? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Charles Stove
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781594035234
Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the "enlarged benevolence" of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to decreased economic incentives, lower rates of productivity, and increased poverty. As Stove points out, there is an air of paradox in saying that benevolence may be a cause of poverty. But there shouldn't be. Good intentions alone are never sufficient to guarantee the success of one's endeavors. Utopian schemes to reorganize the world have regularly ended in failure. Easily the most important example of this phenomenon is twentieth-century communism. As Stove reminds us, the attractiveness of communism--the "emotional fuel" of communist revolutionaries for over a hundred years--has always been "exactly the same as the emotional fuel of every other utopianism: the passionate desire to alleviate or abolish misery." Yet communism was such a monumental failure that millions of people today are still suffering its consequences. In this most prescient of essays, Stove warns contemporary readers just how seductive universal political benevolence can be. He also shows how the failure to understand the connection between benevolence and communism has led to many of the greatest social miseries of our age.
Author : Donald Vandeveer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400854066
Donald VanDeVeer probes the moral complexities of the question: under what conditions is it permissible to intervene invasively in the lives of competent persons--for example, by deception, force, or coercive threat--for their own good? In a work with broad significance for law, public policy, professional-client relations, and private interactions, he presents a theory of an autonomy-respecting" paternalism. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Minhaj-ul-Quran Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Benovolence
ISBN : 969320526X
Author : Sallie B. King
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824861629
Engaged Buddhism is the contemporary movement of nonviolent social and political activism found throughout the Buddhist world. Its ethical theory sees the world in terms of cause and effect, a view that discourages its practitioners from becoming adversaries, blaming or condemning the other. Its leaders make some of the most important contributions in the Buddhist world to thinking about issues in political theory, human rights, nonviolence, and social justice. Being Benevolence provides for the first time a rich overview of the main ideas and arguments of prominent Engaged Buddhist thinkers and activists on a variety of questions: What kind of political system should modern Asian states have? What are the pros and cons of Western "liberalism"? Can Buddhism support the idea of human rights? Can there ever be a nonviolent nation-state? It identifies the roots of Engaged Buddhist social ethics in such traditional Buddhist concepts and practices as interdependence, compassion, and meditation, and shows how these are applied to particular social and political issues. It illuminates the movement’s metaphysical views on the individual and society and goes on to examine how Engaged Buddhists respond to fundamental questions in political theory concerning the proper balance between the individual and society. The second half of the volume focuses on applied social-political issues: human rights, nonviolence, and social justice.
Author : Charles Morley
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104322706
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Robert Merrihew Adams
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191564499
The distinguished philosopher Robert M. Adams presents a major work on virtue, which is once again a central topic in ethical thought. A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character. Many recent attempts to stake out a place in moral philosophy for this concern define virtue in terms of its benefits for the virtuous person or for human society more generally. In Part One of this book Adams presents and defends a conception of virtue as intrinsic excellence of character, worth prizing for its own sake and not only for its benefits. In the other two parts he addresses two challenges to the ancient idea of excellence of character. One challenge arises from the importance of altruism in modern ethical thought, and the question of what altruism has to do with intrinsic excellence. Part Two argues that altruistic benevolence does indeed have a crucial place in excellence of character, but that moral virtue should also be expected to involve excellence in being for other goods besides the well-being (and the rights) of other persons. It explores relations among cultural goods, personal relationships, one's own good, and the good of others, as objects of excellent motives. The other challenge, the subject of Part Three of the book, is typified by doubts about the reality of moral virtue, arising from experiments and conclusions in social psychology. Adams explores in detail the prospects for an empirically realistic conception of excellence of character as an object of moral aspiration, endeavor, and education. He argues that such a conception will involve renunciation of the ancient thesis of the unity or mutual implication of all virtues, and acknowledgment of sufficient 'moral luck' in the development of any individual's character to make virtue very largely a gift, rather than an individual achievement, though nonetheless excellent and admirable for that.
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802866158
An eminent Christian philosopher s thought on the relation between love and justice The concepts of love and justice have long been prominent in the moral culture of the West, yet they are often considered to be hopelessly at odds with one another. In this book acclaimed Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff shows that justice and love are indeed perfectly compatible, and he argues that the commonly perceived tension between them reveals something faulty in our understanding of each. True benevolent love, he says, is always attentive to justice, and love that wreaks injustice can only ever be malformed love. Charitably engaging alternative views, Wolterstorff s Justice in Love is a welcome companion and follow-up volume to his magnificent Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton, 2010). profound new paths of philosophical inquiry. As opposed to his expansive discussion of justice in that earlier work, this book focuses in profound new ways on the relation between justice and love. Nicholas Wolterstorff s Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a magisterial book. In it and in its smaller forthcoming companion volume Justice and Love, Wolterstorff has gotten justice right. This, in case the thrust of my terse comment wasn t plain enough, is very high praise. Miroslav Volf in Books and Culture
