Ruling Passions

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Andrew Sabl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Robert Neal Johnson,Michael Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198723172

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Passions and Projections by Robert Neal Johnson,Michael Smith Pdf

Best known to the general public for his attempts to make philosophy accessible to those with little or no formal training, Simon Blackburn's reputation in academic circles is based on a lifetime pursuit of a projectivist and anti-realist research programme in the spirit of the great David Hume. This volume of critical essays by some of the most influential philosophers working today documents the whole range and influence of Blackburn's work, and poses some novel challenges for him.

Author : Ruling passion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590862076

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The ruling passions by Ruling passion Pdf

Author : Richard R. John
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Christopher Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Reginald Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dalziel, Andrew (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 193460917X

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Ruling Passion by Reginald Hill Pdf

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 : Nicole Eustace
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838792

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Passion Is the Gale by Nicole Eustace Pdf

At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower-class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings and passions to all humankind and made common emotions the basis of natural rights. In Passion Is the Gale, Nicole Eustace describes the promise and the problems of this crucial social and political transition by charting changes in emotional expression among countless ordinary men and women of British America. From Pennsylvania newspapers, pamphlets, sermons, correspondence, commonplace books, and literary texts, Eustace identifies the explicit vocabulary of emotion as a medium of human exchange. Alternating between explorations of particular emotions in daily social interactions and assessments of emotional rhetoric's functions in specific moments of historical crisis (from the Seven Years War to the rise of the patriot movement), she makes a convincing case for the pivotal role of emotion in reshaping power relations and reordering society in the critical decades leading up to the Revolution. As Eustace demonstrates, passion was the gale that impelled Anglo-Americans forward to declare their independence--collectively at first, and then, finally, as individuals.

Author : Sue Lees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060159972

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Ruling Passions by Sue Lees Pdf

The legitimising of male violence against women and the way that women are represented in rape trials are part of the process that lead to injustice for women in today's Britain. The author explores these themes whilst drawing upon Foucault's ideas.

Author : Tom Driberg
Publisher : Stein & Day Pub
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : England
ISBN : 0812860276

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Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : Maram Epstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684176069

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Orthodox Passions by Maram Epstein Pdf

In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a time when Manchu regulations made chastity the primary metaphor for obedience and social duty, filial discourse increasingly embraced the dramatic and passionate excesses associated with late-Ming chastity narratives. Qing texts, especially those from the Jiangnan region, celebrate modes of filial piety that conflicted with the interests of the patriarchal family and the state. Analyzing filial narratives from a wide range of primary texts, including local gazetteers, autobiographical and biographical nianpu records, and fiction, Epstein shows the diversity of acts constituting exemplary filial piety. This context, Orthodox Passions argues, enables a radical rereading of the great novel of manners The Story of the Stone (ca. 1760), whose absence of filial affections and themes make it an outlier in the eighteenth-century sentimental landscape. By decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, Orthodox Passions calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China.

Author : John D. Street
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1629954020

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Passions of the Heart by John D. Street Pdf

Enticed by rage, sensuality, or pride, anyone can become caught up in previously unimaginable acts. Experienced biblical counselor John Street takes a hard look at the heart idolatries that lead even Christians to commit egregious sexual sin . . . showing how to bring lasting change by identifying the underlying motivations of the heart. Here there is hope: any sin can be forgiven, and Christ gives men and women the grace to mortify fleshly desires and to humbly live for him.

Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390287826

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.

Author : Henry Van Dyke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387005745

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The Ruling Passion by Henry Van Dyke Pdf

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