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Wagering on an Ironic God

Author : Thomas S. Hibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 1481306383

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Pascal thus wagers all on the irony of a God who both startles and astonishes wisdom's true lovers.

Why We Are Restless

Author : Benjamin Storey,Jenna Silber Storey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691220116

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A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves. Drawing on the insights of Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, Why We Are Restless explores the modern vision of happiness that leads us on, and the disquiet that follows it like a lengthening shadow. In the sixteenth century, Montaigne articulated an original vision of human life that inspired people to see themselves as individuals dedicated to seeking contentment in the here and now, but Pascal argued that we cannot find happiness through pleasant self-seeking, only anguished God-seeking. Rousseau later tried and failed to rescue Montaigne’s worldliness from Pascal’s attack. Steeped in these debates, Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831 and, observing a people “restless in the midst of their well-being,” discovered what happens when an entire nation seeks worldly contentment—and finds mostly discontent. Arguing that the philosophy we have inherited, despite pretending to let us live as we please, produces remarkably homogenous and unhappy lives, Why We Are Restless makes the case that finding true contentment requires rethinking our most basic assumptions about happiness.

Pascal’s God and the Fragments of the World

Author : Martin Nemoianu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031556265

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Gambling on God

Author : Jeff Jordan
Publisher : Rl Innactive Titles
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847678334

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Gambling on God brings together a superb collection of new and classic essays that provide the first sustained analysis of Pascal's Wager and the idea of an infinite utility as well as the first in-depth look at moral objections to the Wager.

The Other Pascals

Author : John J. Conley S.J.
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268105167

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The Other Pascals by John J. Conley S.J. Pdf

There have been many studies analyzing the philosophy of Blaise Pascal, but this book is the first full-length study of the philosophies of his sisters, Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal Périer, and his niece, Marguerite Périer. While these women have long been presented as the disciples, secretaries, correspondents, and nurses of their brother and uncle, each woman developed a distinctive philosophy that is more than auxiliary to the thought of Blaise Pascal. The unique philosophical voice of each Pascal woman is studied in The Other Pascals. As the headmistress of the Port-Royal convent school, Jacqueline Pascal made important contributions to the philosophy of education. Gilberte Pascal Périer wrote the first philosophical biographies of Blaise and Jacqueline. Marguerite Périer defended freedom of conscience against coercion by political and religious superiors. Each of these women authors speaks in a gendered voice, emphasizing the right of women to develop a philosophical and theological culture and to resist commands to blind obedience by paternal, political, or ecclesiastical authorities. The Other Pascals will be of keen interest to readers interested in early modern philosophy, history, literature, and religion. The book will also appeal to those with an interest in women’s studies and French studies.

The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment

Author : William R. Everdell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030697624

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The Evangelical Counter-Enlightenment by William R. Everdell Pdf

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common. Such figures include Muḥammad Ibn abd al-Waḥhab, Count Nikolaus Zinzendorf, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Israel Ba’al Shem Tov. The book is a unique and comprehensive study of the conflicted relationship between the “evangelical” movements in all three Abrahamic religions and the ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Centered on the 18th century, the book reaches back to the third century for precedents and context, and forward to the 21st for the legacy of these movements. This text appeals to students and researchers in many fields, including Philosophy and Religion, their histories, and World History, while also appealing to the interested lay reader.

Due Santi and the University of Dallas: Un Piccolo Paradiso

Author : Gregory Roper and Andrew Moran
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147651

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Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chaprer 1: The ancient Roman city of Bovillae : History just below our feet ; Due Santi wines from then to now -- Chapter 2: The villa Gabriella and the history of modern Italy ; Gli Italiani ; Family life a 'Cor' curriculum -- Chapter 3: A UD "Aeneid", the founding of Due Santi ; The Rome campus expansion -- Chapter 4: Seeing Due Santi, the sense of place ; Christian Norberg-Schulz and the University of Dallas ; The Chapel of the Transfiguration -- Chapter 5: Studying faces, the Rome semester curriculum and travels ; The dogs of Greece ; Games and traditions -- Chapter 6: The year I wore every hat on the rack, and found a family ; The chaplaincy ; Class nicknames -- Chapter 7: "L'Infinito:, a sentimental journey into the four seasons of the Rome campus ; Summer Rome -- Afterword -- Appendix -- About the Contributors

Gambling God Empress

Author : Feng Huangmu
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647679750

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I transmigrated and became a discarded queen. The emperor doesn't care about anything. All he thinks about is trash. When he sees me, he can't eat. The harem is lonely, teaching people to gamble and earn a few meals. The princes, each more handsome and rich than the last, enthusiastically invited me out of the palace for a gamble. Meeting a proud pockmarked face, betting on whether or not to pay. He said domineeringly, "I am the Emperor. All the money in this world is mine. Why should I give it to you, fat woman?" "You're the emperor, and I'm also the empress. If I lose, I won't pay ..." I ran, but didn't give him the money. He was the emperor, so if he caught the empress gambling, he wouldn't be wasted. I won't retire even if I were beaten to death. There were many pretty boys outside, but it was also very dangerous. They all wanted to think about their own ideas. Beautiful men were like wine, intoxicating one with their eyes. The pockmarked emperor looked like a dog and wanted to bite me. The Second Sky of Fire and Ice trembled as they watched the battle between men. For power, for power, for me.

Irony in the Bible

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536333

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It is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.

Why Read Pascal?

Author : Paul J. Griffiths
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813233840

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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is known in the English-speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensées, a collection of philosophical and theological fragments of unusual emotional and intellectual intensity collected and published after his death. He thought and wrote, however, about much more than this: mathematics; physics; grace, freedom, and predestination; the nature of the church; the Christian life; what it is to write and read; the order of things; the nature and purpose of human life; and more. He was among the polymaths of the seventeenth century, and among the principal apologists of his time for the Catholic faith, against both its Protestant opponents and its secular critics. Why Read Pascal? engages all the major topics of Pascal's theological and philosophical writing. It provides discussion of Pascal's literary style, his linked understandings of knowledge and of the various orders of things, his anthropology (with special attention to his presentation of affliction, death, and boredom), his politics, and his understanding of the relation between Christianity and Judaism. Pascal emerges as a literary stylist of a high order, a witty and polemical writer (never have the Jesuits been more thoroughly eviscerated), and, perhaps above all else, as someone concerned to show to Christianity's cultured despisers that the fabric of their own lives implies the truth of Christianity if only they can be brought to look at what their lives are like. Why Read Pascal? is the first book in English in a generation to engage all the principal themes in Pascal's theology and philosophy. The book takes Pascal seriously as an interlocutor and as a contributor of continuing relevance to Catholic thought; but it also offers criticisms of some among the positions he takes, showing, in doing so, how lively his writing remains for us now.

Varieties of Musical Irony

Author : Michael Cherlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107141292

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Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Toward a More Perfect Union

Author : Ann Fairfax Withington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0195361733

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In October of 1774, Congress passed a moral code which banned the theater, cock-fights, and horse races. In abiding by this code, Americans built for themselves a character as a virtuous people which set them apart from the "corrupt" British, prepared them to declare independence, and gave them the confidence to establish republican governments. This book uses the specific moral code of Congress as a springboard into the issues generated by the constitutional crisis that precipitated the American Revolution. Withington argues that the moral program, grounded in popular culture, worked as a political strategy to involve people emotionally in the cause and to broaden the reach of resistance to include all classes and both genders. Withington's integration of political history with the materials of popular culture, including cocker manuals, mortuary paraphernalia, prints, caricatures, anagrams, bawdy comedies and sentimental tragedies, and last speeches of condemned criminals leads the reader into a deeper understanding of the formation and significance of the revolutionary ideology

Caro on Gambling

Author : Mike Caro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0897460294

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Football, Gambling, and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe

Author : Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000987980

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Football, Gambling, and Everyday Life in Zimbabwe by Manase Kudzai Chiweshe Pdf

As unemployment soared in Zimbabwe in the early twenty-first century, betting on football/soccer emerged as a popular, if unsustainable, livelihood option, and the number of betting halls mushroomed. This book investigates this growing social phenomenon, providing a holistic analysis of football gambling in Zimbabwe and exposing its impact on the everyday lives of Zimbabweans. Drawing on original empirical and theoretical analysis from across six different areas of Zimbabwe, the book highlights the lived experiences of communities that are only beginning to grapple with the long-term effects of addiction. Explaining its historical origins in the colonial and immediate post-colonial periods, the authors delve into the motivations, patterns, practices and impacts of soccer betting. Tackling issues such as gender, livelihoods, addiction, religion, and tradition related to soccer betting, the book lays bare the general lack of policy frameworks and support services to protect vulnerable populations. This book offers a rare glimpse into a sociological phenomenon sweeping across Zimbabwe, with a particularly stark impact on the country’s youth. It will interest sports and African studies researchers, as well as those focusing on the socio-health problems related to gambling.

Sporting with the Gods

Author : Michael Oriard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991-02-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 052139113X

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"Sporting with the Gods examines the rhetoric of "game" and "play" and "sport" in American culture from the time of the Puritans to the 1980s. Focusing on writers and public figures who dominated public discourse, Oriard shows how the trope of game and play in fiction and in religious, social, and economic writings can be used to graph changes in the religious and social climate from the Puritans through the Transcendentalists to the Social Darwinists and from the Beats and hippies to the New Age spiritualists of the present decade. He also uses the trope to graph the shifting attitudes toward work (and play) in the game of business, as the United States moved to industrial capitalism and then to a postindustrial society of consumerism and leisure. The result is a history of this country from its inception, through the lens of a single trope, resonating with implications at every strata of American culture." --from back cover.