Ruling Passion

Author : Reginald Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2008
Category : Dalziel, Andrew (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 193460917X

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Detective-Sergeant Peter Pascoe arrives in the sleepy village of Thornton Lacey for a reunion with old friends, but instead finds himself in the midst of a grisly triple murder. One of his oldest friends is wanted for murder, his boss is ordering him back to Yorkshire, and his instincts are telling him that the local constabulary will never suspect that the crime's true motive lie in the unexplored zones of passion within a twisted heart. Police procedural.

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199241392

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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 : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387005752

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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 : Christopher Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015035024473

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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 : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,9 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'.

Author : Charlotte Eliza L. Riddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600021535

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The ruling passion, by Rainey Hawthorne by Charlotte Eliza L. Riddell Pdf

Author : Philip F. Sidney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024111289

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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 : Richard R. John
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271045702

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"This work was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Policy History (vol. 18, no. 1, 2006)"--T.p. verso.

Author : Andrew Sabl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400825004

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How should politicians act? When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it? Should politicians see themselves as experts, whose opinions have greater authority than other people's, or as participants in a common dialogue with ordinary citizens? When do virtues like toleration and willingness to compromise deteriorate into moral weakness? In this innovative work, Andrew Sabl answers these questions by exploring what a democratic polity needs from its leaders. He concludes that there are systematic, principled reasons for the holders of divergent political offices or roles to act differently. Sabl argues that the morally committed civil rights activist, the elected representative pursuing legislative results, and the grassroots organizer determined to empower ordinary citizens all have crucial democratic functions. But they are different functions, calling for different practices and different qualities of political character. To make this case, he draws on political theory, moral philosophy, leadership studies, and biographical examples ranging from Everett Dirksen to Ella Baker, Frances Willard to Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr. to Joe McCarthy. Ruling Passions asks democratic theorists to pay more attention to the "governing pluralism" that characterizes a diverse, complex democracy. It challenges moral philosophy to adapt its prescriptions to the real requirements of democratic life, to pay more attention to the virtues of political compromise and the varieties of human character. And it calls on all democratic citizens to appreciate "democratic constancy": the limited yet serious standard of ethical character to which imperfect democratic citizens may rightly hold their leaders--and themselves.

Author : Ruling passion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590862076

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Author : Andrew Sabl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691088314

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How should politicians act? When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it? Should politicians see themselves as experts, whose opinions have greater authority than other people's, or as participants in a common dialogue with ordinary citizens? When do virtues like toleration and willingness to compromise deteriorate into moral weakness? In this innovative work, Andrew Sabl answers these questions by exploring what a democratic polity needs from its leaders. He concludes that there are systematic, principled reasons for the holders of divergent political offices or roles to act differently. Sabl argues that the morally committed civil rights activist, the elected representative pursuing legislative results, and the grassroots organizer determined to empower ordinary citizens all have crucial democratic functions. But they are different functions, calling for different practices and different qualities of political character. To make this case, he draws on political theory, moral philosophy, leadership studies, and biographical examples ranging from Everett Dirksen to Ella Baker, Frances Willard to Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr. to Joe McCarthy. Ruling Passions asks democratic theorists to pay more attention to the "governing pluralism" that characterizes a diverse, complex democracy. It challenges moral philosophy to adapt its prescriptions to the real requirements of democratic life, to pay more attention to the virtues of political compromise and the varieties of human character. And it calls on all democratic citizens to appreciate "democratic constancy": the limited yet serious standard of ethical character to which imperfect democratic citizens may rightly hold their leaders--and themselves.

Author : Thomas PAINE (Poet., afterwards Robert Treat)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1797
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018652092

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The Ruling Passion: an Occasional Poem, Etc by Thomas PAINE (Poet., afterwards Robert Treat) Pdf

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732623006

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Author : Waller Newell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461666165

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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 : Simon and Schuster
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476745305

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Judith Michael creates unforgettable characters and a vivid, richly textured world -- where passions can be stronger than love -- in this splendid bestseller. Pampered socialite Valerie Sterling is shattered by her husband's death and the mysterious loss of her wealth. But she finds within herself the will to build a new life, and rekindles a romance with television network head Nicholas Fielding. Valerie is utterly unaware of the dangerous passions she is stirring up in Sybille Enderby, her childhood friend and daughter of a seamstress on one of Valerie's estates. Clawing her way up in the television industry, Sybille has always longed to possess all that Valerie has. Yet success, marriage, and the glittering whirl of society cannot quench Sybille's envy of her friend...an envy that grows into a powerful obsession: to destroy Valerie.