The Promise And Paradox Of Freedom

Author : Parker J. Palmer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780470649909

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The Promise of Paradox by Parker J. Palmer Pdf

First published in 1980—and reissued here with a feisty new introductory essay—The Promise of Paradox launched Parker J. Palmer’s career as an author and his ongoing exploration of the contradictions that vex and enrich our lives. In this probing and heartfelt book, the distinguished writer, teacher, and activist examines some of the challenging questions at the core of Christian spirituality. How do we live with the apparent opposition between good and evil, scarcity and abundance, individuality and community, death and new life? We can hold them as paradoxes, not “either/ors,” allowing them to open our minds and hearts to new ways of seeing and being.

Author : Lucy Jane Ward
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739189771

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Freedom and Dissatisfaction in the Works of Agnes Heller by Lucy Jane Ward Pdf

In this book, Lucy Jane Ward argues that although contemporary scholarship tends to divide Agnes Heller's work chronologically in terms of her “Marxist” and subsequent “post-Marxist” periods, a closer reading reveals her work as a continuing engagement both with and against Marx's idea of the human being rich in need.

Author : Len Hansen
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928314486

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Preaching Promise withing the Paradoxes of Life by Len Hansen Pdf

Paradoxes have become characteristic of the world we live in - poverty and privilege, empire and oppression, migration and enclaveseeking, war and peace, justice and injustice, reconciliation and revenge. During the 2016 Societas Homiletica annual conference held in South Africa, these paradoxes served as a rediscovery of the calling of preachers to deliver the promise that lies within life's contradictions. A divine promise brought forth by the grace of God and the gospel of Christ - embodied in and through us by the Spirit of Christ. This promise may take many forms and calls for discernment and often interrupts the status quos in surprising, shocking ways. It is a promise that interrupts, in order to comfort.

Author : Mimi Thi Nguyen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352396

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The Gift of Freedom by Mimi Thi Nguyen Pdf

Mimi Thi Nguyen examines the self-interested claims of the United States to provide freedom to others, even as it does so by generating violence and displacement through overpowering warfare.

Author : William Muir
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483301389

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Freedom in America by William Muir Pdf

If you want students to really understand the concept of power, moving beyond a survey book's quick discussion of Laswell's "who gets what and how," Muir's thoughtful Freedom in America might be the book for you. Exploring the words and ideas of such thinkers as Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Tocqueville, Muir discusses the nature and limits of three types of power—coercive, reciprocal, and moral—and then uses this framework to explain how American political institutions work. If looking for an alternative to a long survey text—or itching to get students grappling with The Federalist Papers or Democracy in America with more of a payoff—Muir's meditation on power and personal freedom is a gateway for students to take their study of politics to the next level. His inductive style, engaging students with well-chosen and masterfully written stories, lets him draw out and distill key lessons without being preachy. Read a chapter and decide if this page turner is for you.

Author : María del Rosario Acosta López,Jeffrey L. Powell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438472195

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Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom by María del Rosario Acosta López,Jeffrey L. Powell Pdf

Shows the relevance of Schiller’s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics. This book seeks to draw attention to Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) as a philosophical thinker in his own right. For too long, his philosophical contribution has been neglected in favor of his much-deserved reputation as a political playwright. The essays in this collection make two arguments. First, Schiller presents a robust philosophical program that can be favorably compared to those of his age, including Rousseau, Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, and he proves to be their equal in his thinking on morality, aesthetics, and politics. Second, Schiller can also guide us in our more contemporary philosophical concerns and approaches, such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics. Here, Schiller instructs us in our engagement with figures such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, and others.

Author : Graham Tomlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472939494

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Bound to be Free by Graham Tomlin Pdf

Freedom is one of the most cherished ideals of Western culture. Yet that ideal is threatened from without and within in alarming ways in our increasingly polarised world. Could it be that at the heart of our secular vision of freedom there is a fatal flaw, which means it can never square the circle of personal liberty and social cohesion that we all long for? In this accessible, significant and deeply thoughtful book, Graham Tomlin argues that the Christian vision of freedom offers a way to think about liberty that can bring together both personal fulfilment and the health of community life in a way that secular versions have failed to do.

Author : Clive Hamilton
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781742375786

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Freedom Paradox by Clive Hamilton Pdf

A radical reconsideration of the meaning of freedom and morality in the modern world.

Author : Thembela Kepe,Melissa Levin,Bettina von Lieres
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781775822042

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Domains of Freedom by Thembela Kepe,Melissa Levin,Bettina von Lieres Pdf

After more than 20 years of freedom in South Africa we have to ask ourselves difficult questions: are we willing to perpetuate a lie, search for facts or think wishfully? Freedom has been enabled by apartheid’s end, but at the same time some of apartheid’s key institutions and social relations are reproduced under the guise of ‘democracy’. This collection of essays acknowledges the enormous expectations placed on the shoulders of the South African revolution to produce an alternative political regime in response to apartheid and global neo-liberalism. It does not lament the inability of South Africa’s democracy to provide deeper freedoms, or suggest that since it hasn't this is some form of betrayal. Freedom is made possible and/or limited by local political choices, contemporary global conditions and the complexities of social change. This book explores the multiplicity of spaces within which the dynamics of social change unfold, and the complex ways in which power is produced and reproduced. In this way, it seeks to understand the often non-linear practices through which alternative possibilities emerge, the lengthy and often indirect ways in which new communities are imagined and new solidarities are built. In this sense, this book is not a collection of hope or despair. Nor is it a book that seeks to situate itself between these two poles. Instead it aims to read the present historically, critically and politically, and to offer insights into the ongoing, iterative and often messy struggles for freedom.

Author : Daniel Innerarity
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317210375

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Ethics of Hospitality by Daniel Innerarity Pdf

The source of hospitality lies in the fundamental ethical experiences that make up the fabric of the social lives of people. Therein lies a primary form of humanity. Whether we are guests or hosts, this reveals our situation in a world made up of receiving and meeting, leaving room for the liberty to give and receive beyond the imperatives of reciprocity. This book proposes an ethic that promotes the possibility of stirring emotion before that of protecting ourselves from unexpected encounters. Fundamental ethical competence consists of opening up to the wholly other and to others, to be accessible to the world’s solicitations. There is moral superiority of vulnerable love over control and moderation, of generous passion over rational prudence and of excess over exchange. Constructing an ethic of hospitality is essential at a time when we are torn between the imperatives of modernization and growth and the demands of concern and protection. The experience we all have today, that of the fragility of the world, is giving rise to a powerful tendency toward solicitude. From such a perspective, the duty of individuals no longer consists of protecting themselves from society, but of defending it, taking care of a social fabric outside of which no identity can be formed.

Author : Michael G. Kammen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0801497558

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People of Paradox by Michael G. Kammen Pdf

From the beginning, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust, according to Michael Kammen, is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous. He shows how, during the years of colonization, some ideas and institutions were transferred virtually intact from Britain, while, simultaneously, others were being transformed in the New World. As he unravels the tangled origins of our culture, he makes us see that unresolved contradictions in the American experience have created our national style. Puritanical and hedonistic, idealistic and materialistic, peace-loving and war-mongering: these opposing strands go back to the genesis of our history.

Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313242892

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The Paradoxes of Freedom by Sidney Hook Pdf

Author : Dhirendranath Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015022743986

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The Paradox of Freedom by Dhirendranath Sen Pdf

Author : Mark U. Edwards, Jr.
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413998

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Printing, Propaganda, and Martin Luther by Mark U. Edwards, Jr. Pdf

A study of Protestant and Catholic pamphlets published in Strasbourg during the early years of the Reformation looks at Martin Luther's use of the recently invented printing press and his dominance of the new medium.

Author : Michael J. Almeida
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191654800

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Freedom, God, and Worlds by Michael J. Almeida Pdf

Michael J. Almeida presents a powerful argument which holds that several widely believed and largely undisputed objections to the idea of the existence of God are in fact just philosophical dogmas. He challenges some of the most well-entrenched principles in philosophical theology, which have served as basic assumptions in influential apriori, atheological arguments. But most theists also maintain that the principles express apriori necessary truths, including those principles that are presumed to follow from the nature of an essentially omnipotent, essentially omniscient, essentially perfectly good and necessarily existing being. Among the atheological arguments that deploy these philosophical dogmas are the Logical Problem of Evil, the Logical Problem of the Best Possible World, the Logical Problem of Good Enough Worlds, the Problem of Divine Freedom, the Problem of No Best World, and the Evidential Problem of Evil. In Freedom, God, and Worlds Almeida claims that these arguments present no important challenge to the existence of an Anselmian God. Not only are these philosophical principles false, they are necessarily false.