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Author : Pharcellus Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Benevolence
ISBN : COLUMBIA:50192435
Author : PHARCELLUS. CHURCH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033113654
Author : Pharcellus 1801-1886 Church
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1373408464
Author : Pharcellus Church
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359228691
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Author : Pharcellus Church
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Robert Spaemann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : S. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108246521
The essays in this volume provide a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbes's political philosophy and the ways in which they can be interpreted. The volume's contributors offer their own interpretations of Hobbes's philosophical method, his materialism, his psychological theory and moral theory, and his views on benevolence, law and civil liberties, religion, and women. Hobbes's ideas of authorization and representation, his use of the 'state of nature', and his reply to the unjust 'Foole' are also critically analyzed. The essays will help readers to orient themselves in the complex scholarly literature while also offering groundbreaking arguments and innovative interpretations. The volume as a whole will facilitate new insights into Hobbes's political theory, enabling readers to consider key elements of his thought from multiple perspectives and to select and combine them to form their own interpretations of his political philosophy.
Author : Tom Aerwyn Roberts
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005780203
Author : Chao-Chuan Chen,Yueh-Ting Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521705436
With the rise of China in the global economy, it has never been more important for business leaders to understand Chinese leadership philosophies and practices. This is the first book to explain how ancient Chinese thinking and Western ideas have shaped the development of leadership styles in China. Leadership theories associated with Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, the Arts of War, and the writings of Mao and Deng are analysed by both Chinese and Western experts. To set this in a modern business context, the book includes interviews with top executives, who reflect on how their business values are affected by ancient Chinese philosophers, modern Chinese leaders, and Western management writers and thinkers. The book also includes research on paternalistic leadership as practised by business leaders in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China.
Author : T. A. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Benevolence
ISBN : 0033120552
Author : Stephen Darwall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400825325
What kind of life best ensures human welfare? Since the ancient Greeks, this question has been as central to ethical philosophy as to ordinary reflection. But what exactly is welfare? This question has suffered from relative neglect. And, as Stephen Darwall shows, it has done so at a price. Presenting a provocative new "rational care theory of welfare," Darwall proves that a proper understanding of welfare fundamentally changes how we think about what is best for people. Most philosophers have assumed that a person's welfare is what is good from her point of view, namely, what she has a distinctive reason to pursue. In the now standard terminology, welfare is assumed to have an "agent-relative normativity." Darwall by contrast argues that someone's good is what one should want for that person insofar as one cares for her. Welfare, in other words, is normative, but not peculiarly for the person whose welfare is at stake. In addition, Darwall makes the radical proposal that something's contributing to someone's welfare is the same thing as its being something one ought to want for her own sake, insofar as one cares. Darwall defends this theory with clarity, precision, and elegance, and with a subtle understanding of the place of sympathetic concern in the rich psychology of sympathy and empathy. His forceful arguments will change how we understand a concept central to ethics and our understanding of human bonds and human choices.
Author : Donald Vandeveer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : David Charles Stove
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Nomy Arpaly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Agent
ISBN : 9780195179767
Conventional thinking about the mind, dating back to Aristotle envisions the emotions as being directed and determined by rational thought. The author argues that the conventional picture of rationality is fundamentally false and has little to do with how real human beings actually behave.
Author : David Kelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10
Category : Benevolence
ISBN : 1577240006