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Author : Ana Mar�a Moix
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 080323189X
Five short stories by a Spanish writer. The title story is on two women communicating by staring, while The Dead is on an unhappy wedding anniversary. and index.
Author : Martha Moody
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804040518
It’s 2047 in Dayton, Ohio. In response to food and water shortages, the U.S. government has developed an enormous, and powerfully successful, agricultural area—the “Heartland Grid”—just north of the city. In the meantime, in the wake of declining American power a multinational force has established itself in Cleveland. Behind these quickly shifting alliances lies a troubling yet tantalizing question: what will the American future look like? Sharp and Dangerous Virtues is the story of ordinary people caught in situations they had never planned for or even imagined. There are Chad and Sharis, a married couple with two sons, holding out for normal life in their decaying suburb; Tuuro, a black church custodian whose false confession of murder is used for political purposes; Lila, Dayton’s aging, lonely Commissioner of Water, who dreams of being part of the “pure” existence of the Grid residents; and Charles and Diana, idealistic lovers trying desperately to preserve the nature center that has become their refuge. What will these people do? What choices are left for them, and what choices have been taken away? Whom and what can they trust? Novelist Moody—known for her vivid portrayals of complicated characters and relationships in novels such as Best Friends and Sometimes Mine—weaves together cataclysmic events and the most intimate of human emotions to create a future that seems achingly real. Sharp and Dangerous Virtues will change the way you think and feel.
Author : Jeff Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030203542
This innovative book proposes that what we think of as “moral conscience” is essentially the exercise of reflective judgment on the goods and ends arising in interpersonal relations, and that such judgment constitutes a form of taste. Through an historical survey Mitchell shows that the constant pendant to taste was an educational and cultural ideal, namely, that of the gentleman, whether he was an ancient Greek citizen-soldier, Roman magistrate, Confucian scholar-bureaucrat, Renaissance courtier, or Victorian grandee. Mitchell argues that it was neither an ethical doctrine nor methodology that provided the high cultures with moral and political leadership, but rather an elite social order. While the gentry in the traditional sense no longer exists, it nevertheless made significant historical contributions, and insofar as we are concerned to understand the present state of human affairs, we need to grasp the nature and import of said contributions.
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781635573084
National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod-the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish-and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets-salmon, trout, and char; and for some, bass, tarpon, tuna, bonefish, and even marlin-are highly intelligent, athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky learns, is that fly fishing makes catching a fish as difficult as possible. The flies can be beautiful and intricate, some made with over two dozen pieces of feather and fur; the cast is a matter of grace and rhythm, with different casts and rods yielding varying results. Kurlansky is known for his deep dives into specific subjects, from cod to oysters to salt. But he spent his boyhood days on the shore of a shallow pond. Here, where tiny fish weaved under a rocky waterfall, he first tied string to a branch, dangled a worm into the water, and unleashed his passion for fishing. Since then, his love of the sport has led him around the world's countries, coasts, and rivers-from the wilds of Alaska to Basque country, from Ireland and Norway to Russia and Japan. And, in true Kurlansky fashion, he absorbed every fact, detail, and anecdote along the way. The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing marries Kurlansky's signature wide-ranging reach with a subject that has captivated him for a lifetime-combining history, craft, and personal memoir to show readers, devotees of the sport or not, the necessity of experiencing nature's balm first-hand.
Author : Elaine Barbieri
Publisher : Montlake Romance
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477839984
Purity, Honesty, Chastity--they were all admirable traits, but when they came in the form of three headstrong, spirited, sinfully lovely sisters, they were...DANGEROUS VIRTUES. From the moment Purity laid eyes on the stranger's magnificent body, she felt anything but what her name implied. Who was the mysterious half-breed who'd bushwhacked the trail drive she was leading? And why did she find it impossible to forget his blazing, green-eyed gaze? Though Pale Wolf had attacked her, though he was as driven to discover his brother's killer as she was to find her long-lost sisters, Purity longed to make him a part of her life, just as her waiting softness longed to welcome his perfect masculine form. There might be nothing virtuous about her intentions toward Pale Wolf, but she knew their ultimate joining would be pure paradise.
Author : Deirdre Nansen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226556673
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.
Author : William J. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1917 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781439126257
Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues, an instructive and inspiring anthology that will help children understand and develop character -- and help adults teach them. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions -- the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy -- and learn from -- together.
Author : Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131732
A murder case with all the elements of melodrama -- including seduction and betrayal, political intrigue, honor, and greed -- the Kentucky Tragedy of 1825 riveted the attention of the nation. For decades afterward, its themes resonated in American writing. With unprecedented objectivity, Dickson Bruce recounts the events of the case and offers an innovative analysis of the poems, novels, dramas, and commentary it inspired. He uncovers an intricate connection between public fascination with the Kentucky Tragedy and changing ideas about gender roles, social identity, human motivation, and freedom in the years leading up to the Civil War.Bruce provides a masterly narration of the Tragedy. Around 1819, Colonel Solomon P. Sharp, one of Kentucky's leading politicians, allegedly seduced Ann Cooke, who subsequently delivered a stillborn child she claimed was fathered by Sharp. During the summer of 1825, rumors of the scandal circulated, incensing both Cooke and her husband, Jereboam Beauchamp, who decided, with the support of his wife, that honor compelled him to kill Sharp. He did so, admitted to the act, and was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to die. On the morning of the execution, the couple attempted suicide by stabbing in Beauchamp's jail cell. Cooke died, but Beauchamp was merely wounded and met his date with the hangman later that day.The lurid story appeared widely in the popular press and captured the imaginations of many antebellum writers, including William Gilmore Simms and Edgar Allan Poe. Bruce reveals that the Kentucky Tragedy elicited more literary works than did any other episode of the period. By exploring the transformation of the Tragedy into literature, he illuminates the shifting social, political, and intellectual forces that revolutionized American life in this era.
Author : John Casey,John Peter Anthony Casey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cardinal virtues
ISBN : 0198240031
Dr Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and justice, which are largely ignored in modern moral philosophy, centrally define the good for Man. The values of success, pride, and worldliness remain alive, if insufficiently acknowledged, part of ourmoral thinking. The conflict between these values and our equally important Christian inheritance leads to tensions and contradictions in our understanding of the moral life.
Author : Udo Schaefer
Publisher : Udo Schaefer
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bahai ethics
ISBN : 9780853985181
There is a fundamental discrepancy between man as he is and man as he could be, if only he recognized his true being and purpose. Ethics is the discipline by which man can understand how he can pass from the first condition to the second. Udo Schaefer's Baha'i Ethics in Light of Scripture is an attempt to analyse the underlying structures and detect the interior architecture of the Baha'i moral system and is a step towards developing a Baha'i moral theology. Doctrinal Fundamentals, the first of two volumes, provides a historical overview of the Baha'i Faith, a systematic survey of it doctrines and an overview of the origin and derivation of moral values. It considers the metaphysical nature of human beings and human responsibilities, looks at reason and conscience, and explores liberty and its limits. Schaefer's second volume deals with concrete values - the virtues, divine commandments and principles of social ethics from a Baha'i perspective."
Author : Francisco ARIAS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021948298
Author : Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones,Joseph Samuel Exell,Charles Neil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Homiletical illustrations
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5T3E
Author : John Hendricks Bechtel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Maxims
ISBN : UVA:X000598331
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674237551
James Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as exemplary thinker. What most concerned Renaissance political theorists, Hankins contends, was not reforming laws but shaping citizens. To secure the social good, they fostered virtue through a new program of education: the humanities.
Author : Jennifer A. Baker,Mark D. White
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198701392
A volume by leading economists and philosophers that explores the contributions that virtue ethics can make to economics. Provides historical and modern insights in both economics and philosophy and offers suggestions for incorporating the ethics of virtue into economics to make it more applicable to moral dilemmas in the world outside the models.