Ruled By Passion

Author : Sara Bennett
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061753381

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Rules of Passion by Sara Bennett Pdf

The boldest, most unconventional of the three Greentree sisters, Marietta believes her best course would be to emulate her natural mother, the notorious courtesan Madame Aphrodite. Being woefully unschooled in the ways of passion, however, Marietta, at Aphrodite's insistence, must first prove herself by properly seducing one man: Max Valland, the moody, disgraced, anddisinherited former Lord Roseby. With his life and reputation already in tatters, Max is most willing to help the exquisite young minx practice her chosen craft—though he is surprised at the depth of his desire . . . and by her most unprofessional tenderness. But Marietta's plans are threatened by the dangerous mysteries swirling around this disarmingly sensual gentleman . . . and by a heart that urges her to break the courtesan's cardinal rule: never fall in love.

Author : Adam Davidson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385353533

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The Passion Economy by Adam Davidson Pdf

The brilliant creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast and award-winning New Yorker staff writer explains our current economy: laying out its internal logic and revealing the transformative hope it offers for millions of people to thrive as they never have before. Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson—one of our leading public voices on economic issues—the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers. Drawing on the stories of average people doing exactly this—an accountant overturning his industry, a sweatshop owner's daughter fighting for better working conditions, an Amish craftsman meeting the technological needs of Amish farmers—as well as the latest academic research, Davidson shows us how the twentieth-century economy of scale has given way in this century to an economy of passion. He makes clear, too, that though the adjustment has brought measures of dislocation, confusion, and even panic, these are most often the result of a lack of understanding. The Passion Economy delineates the ground rules of the new economy, and armed with these, we begin to see how we can succeed in it according to its own terms—intimacy, insight, attention, automation, and, of course, passion. An indispensable road map and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future.

Author : Charlotte Eliza L. Riddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600056622

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The rich husband, by the author of 'The ruling passion'. by Charlotte Eliza L. Riddell Pdf

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199241392

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Ruling Passions by Simon Blackburn Pdf

Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave as we do? Can we improve? Is our ethics at war with our passions, or is it an upshot of those passions? Blackburn seeks the answers in an exploration of guilt, shame, disgust, and other moral emotions; he draws also on game theory and cognitive science in his account of the structures of human motivation. Many philosophers have wanted a naturalistic ethics a theory that integrates our understanding of human morality with the rest of our understanding of the world we live in. What is special about Blackburn's naturalistic ethics is that it does not debunk the ethical by reducing it to the non-ethical. At the same time he banishes the spectres of scepticism and relativism that have haunted recent moral philosophy. Ruling Passions sets ethics in the context of human nature: it offers a solution to the puzzle of how ethics can maintain its authority even though it is rooted in the very emotions and motivations that it exists to control.

Author : Philip F. Sidney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024111288

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The Ruling Passion. A Comic Story of the Sixteenth Century. Revived, Revised and Edited, by P. F. Sidney, Etc by Philip F. Sidney Pdf

Author : Johanna Lindsey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451633269

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When Passion Rules by Johanna Lindsey Pdf

In this "magical" ("Library Journal") tale from a #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author, a stolen princess discovers her true destinyNin royal duty and in love.

Author : Waller Newell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461666165

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Ruling Passion by Waller Newell Pdf

Ruling Passion is the only book-length study of tyranny, statesmanship, and civic virtue in three major Platonic dialogues, the Georgias, the Symposium, and the Republic. It is also the first extended interpretation of eros as the key to Plato's understanding of both the depths of human vice and the heights of human aspirations for virtue and happiness. Through his detailed commentary and eloquent insights on the three dialogues, Waller Newell demonstrates how, for Plato, tyranny is a misguided longing for erotic satisfaction that can be corrected by the education of eros toward the proper objects if its pleasure: civic virtue and philosophy. In unfolding these reflections through his analysis, Newell also demonstrates a rich and deep grasp of the complexities of the tyrannical personality and countless new insights into the dramatic dimensions of Plato's dialogues. Written in a clear and engaging style, Ruling Passion will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, classicists, historians, and anyone generally intrigued by the ironies, mysteries, and longings of human nature and psychology.

Author : Judith Michael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4444403829

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A Ruling Passion by Judith Michael Pdf

Author : Alyxandra Harvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802728166

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Ruling Passion by Alyxandra Harvey Pdf

Includes: Hearts at Stake, Blood Feud, and Out for Blood . Readers will meet Solange Drake, her best friend Lucy, and the irresistible Drake brothers--the royal family of vampires whose matriarch is next in line for the throne. The Drakes must keep peace in their town of Violet Hill as warring vampire factions vie for power, and as Solange falls in love with Kieran Black a handsome vampire hunter and Lucy falls for Nicolas Drake. The hot romance and kick-butt action will keep readers coming back for more.

Author : Margareta Westergård
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Buenos Aires (Argentina)
ISBN : 9876030930

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Tango Passion by Margareta Westergård Pdf

Author : Christopher Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015035024473

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The Ruling Passion by Christopher Lane Pdf

In The Ruling Passion, Christopher Lane examines the relationship between masculinity, homosexual desire, and empire in British colonialist and imperialist fictions at the turn of the twentieth century. Questioning the popular assumption that Britain's empire functioned with symbolic efficiency on sublimated desire, this book presents a counterhistory of the empire's many layers of conflict and ambivalence. Through attentive readings of sexual and political allegory in the work of Kipling, Forster, James, Beerbohm, Firbank, and others--and deft use of psychoanalytic theory--The Ruling Passion interprets turbulent scenes of masculine identification and pleasure, power and mastery, intimacy and antagonism. By foregrounding the shattering effects of male homosexuality and interracial desire, and by insisting on the centrality of unconscious fantasy and the death drive, The Ruling Passion examines the startling recurrence of colonial failure in narratives of symbolic doubt and ontological crisis. Lane argues compellingly that Britain can progress culturally and politically only when it has relinquished its residual fantasies of global mastery.

Author : Robert N. Johnson,Michael Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191034824

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Passions and Projections by Robert N. Johnson,Michael Smith Pdf

This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, one of the UK's most influential contemporary philosophers. Blackburn is best known to the general public for his attempts to make philosophy accessible to those with little or no formal training, but in professional circles his reputation is based on a lifetime pursuit of his distinctive version of a projectivist and anti-realist research program. As he sees things, we must always try first to understand and explain what we are doing when we think and talk as we do. This research program reaches into nearly all of the main areas of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and moral psychology. The books and articles he has written provide us with perhaps the most comprehensive statement and defense of projectivism and anti-realism since Hume. The essays collected here document the range and influence of Blackburn's work. They reveal, among other things, the resourcefulness of his distinctive brand of philosophical pragmatism.

Author : Jeanine M. Grenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192679499

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Kant's Deontological Eudaemonism by Jeanine M. Grenberg Pdf

In this book, Professor Jeanine Grenberg defends the idea that Kant's virtue theory is best understood as a system of eudaemonism, indeed, as a distinctive form of eudaemonism that makes it preferable to other forms of it: a system of what she calls Deontological Eudaemonism. In Deontological Eudaemonism, one achieves happiness both rationally conceived (as non-felt pleasure in the virtually unimpeded harmonious activity of one's will and choice) and empirically conceived (as pleasurable fulfilment of one's desires) only via authentic commitment to and fulfilment of what is demanded of all rational beings: making persons as such one's end in all things. To tell this story of Deontological Eudaemonism, Grenberg first defends the notion that Kant's deontological approach to ethics is simultaneously (and indeed, foundationally, and most basically) teleological. She then shows that the realization of an aptitude for the virtuous fulfilment of one's obligatory ends provides the solid basis for simultaneous realization of happiness, both rationally and empirically conceived. Along the way, she argues both that Kant's notion of happiness rationally conceived is essentially identical to Aristotle's conception of happiness as unimpeded activity, and that his notion of happiness empirically conceived is best realized via an unwavering commitment to the fulfilment of one's obligatory ends.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387005745

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The Ruling Passion by Henry Van Dyke Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664587367

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The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature by Henry Van Dyke Pdf

'The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature' is a delightful collection of short stories that take readers on a journey to the lives and adventures of rural French Canadians in the late 19th century. Written in a lively and engaging style, each story ends with a surprising, yet satisfying twist that keeps readers on their toes. Eight titles in total can be found within this book, including the following: 'The White Blot', 'The Keeper of the Light', 'A Brave Heart', and 'A Lover of Music'.