Whose Life Is Worth More

Author : Yagil Levy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503610347

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Whose Life Is Worth More? by Yagil Levy Pdf

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against those of civilians on both sides. The first of its kind, Whose Life Is Worth More? reveals that how these decisions are made is much more nuanced than conventional wisdom suggests. When these states are entangled in prolonged conflicts, hierarchies emerge and evolve to weigh the value of human life. Yagil Levy delves into a wealth of contemporary conflicts, including the drone war in Pakistan, the Kosovo war, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the US and UK wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Cultural narratives about the nature and necessity of war, public rhetoric about external threats facing the nation, antiwar movements, and democratic values all contribute to the perceived validity of civilian and soldier deaths. By looking beyond the military to the cultural and political factors that shape policies, this book provides tools to understand how democracies really decide whose life is worth more.

Author : Kenneth R. Feinberg
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786748150

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What Is Life Worth? by Kenneth R. Feinberg Pdf

Soon to be a major motion picture: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to the enduring power of family, grief, love, fear, frustration, and courage. Just days after September 11, 2001, Kenneth Feinberg was appointed to administer the federal 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, a unique, unprecedented fund established by Congress to compensate families who lost a loved one on 9/11 and survivors who were physically injured in the attacks. Those who participated in the Fund were required to waive their right to sue the airlines involved in the attacks, as well as other potentially responsible entities. When the program was launched, many families criticized it as a brazen, tight-fisted attempt to protect the airlines from lawsuits. The Fund was also attacked as attempting to put insulting dollar values on the lives of lost loved ones. The families were in pain. And they were angry. Over the course of the next three years, Feinberg spent almost all of his time meeting with the families, convincing them of the generosity and compassion of the program, and calculating appropriate awards for each and every claim. The Fund proved to be a dramatic success with over 97% of eligible families participating. It also provided important lessons for Feinberg, who became the filter, the arbitrator, and the target of family suffering. Feinberg learned about the enduring power of family grief, love, fear, faith, frustration, and courage. Most importantly, he learned that no check, no matter how large, could make the families and victims of 9/11 whole again.

Author : Tony Humphreys
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780717164660

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Whose Life Are You Living? Realising Your Worth by Tony Humphreys Pdf

In Whose Life Are You Living?, bestselling author and clinical psychologist Dr Tony Humphreys challenges us move beyond the constraints imposed by external opinions and to look at our lives in new and liberating ways. We are not born bad, ugly, stupid, average, superior or inferior, yet these and other labels plague our adult lives. Why do we pigeonhole ourselves and put limits on our abilities? Our desire to be accepted by friends, family and the world at large forces us to bow to society's demands and shackles our true self. Today's world worships at the altar of success. Magazines and television shows constantly offer us the chance to be somebody, anybody, but who we really are. We follow someone else`s ideal until we end up with no idea of the person we were before we started. Whose life are we living? By giving up our freedom, we no longer belong to ourselves. We belong to those who have influenced and altered us. Dr Tony Humphreys questions the way we approach our lives and shows us how to emerge from the darkness that has hidden us. In the style of the bestselling The Power of "Negative" Thinking, this is an important book from one of our most influential writers in the area of psychology. Whose Life Are You Living?: Table of Contents Introduction Part One. Self Before the Eclipse - Your Real Self Part Two. Partial Eclipse of the Self - People Blocks to Self-Expression - Cultures That Darken Human Presence - Hiding Your Real Self - The Shadow Self - Shadow Profiles Part Three. Total Eclipse of Self - Invisible Self Part Four. The Emergence of Self - Journey Towards Self-Realisation - Realising Self - Enlightened Cultures - Living Your Own Life

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812988413

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : Fulton Sheen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681492957

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Life Is Worth Living by Fulton Sheen Pdf

Bishop Fulton Sheen's renowned and inspiring television series, Life Is Worth Living, was watched by millions of viewers from all walks of life and every religious belief. This book contains the full-length scripts of forty-four of those top-rated programs that drew thousands of letters weekly to Sheen from his viewers in response to the advice and insights he gave on his shows. Bishop Sheen's writings, tapes and videos are as popular today as when he was alive. His timeless insights offered in this book give wise, personal and inspiring guidance on the problems affecting our lives in today's world. His talks cover an amazing variety of subjects, from the character of the Irish to the handling of teen-agers. He discusses education, Christianity, relativity, and world affairs. He speaks about love, conscience, fear, motherhood, work. He tells amusing anecdotes, recites poetry, and ponders the fate of the free world as well as America's destiny. Among his many best-selling books, none has greater universal appeal than Life Is Worth Living. It offers a stirring and challenging statement of Bishop Sheen's whole philosophy of life and living. It is a book for everyone - of immediate concern to all people seeking understanding, belief, and purpose in these troubled times.

Author : Arthur J. Dyck
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Assisted suicide
ISBN : 0802845940

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Life's Worth by Arthur J. Dyck Pdf

Finally, Dyck shows that the moral structure undergirding our system of law is compatible with the views of Christianity, and he points to certain Christian beliefs that provide comfort and hope to those who are suffering, dying, or experiencing the death of loved ones."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Howard Steven Friedman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520383128

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Ultimate Price by Howard Steven Friedman Pdf

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that often result in valuing the lives of the young more than the old, the rich more than the poor, whites more than blacks, Americans more than foreigners, and relatives more than strangers. This is critical since undervalued lives are left less-protected and more exposed to risk. Howard Steven Friedman explains in simple terms how economists and data scientists at corporations, regulatory agencies, and insurance companies develop and use these price tags and points a spotlight at their logical flaws and limitations. He then forcefully argues against the rampant unfairness in the system. Readers will be enlightened, shocked, and, ultimately, empowered to confront the price tags we assign to human lives and understand why such calculations matter.

Author : David Machek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009257879

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The Life Worth Living in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy by David Machek Pdf

Offers a fresh narrative of ancient ethics that does justice to neglected perspectives on the value of human life.

Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674728370

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A Life Worth Living by Robert Zaretsky Pdf

Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition.

Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520201330

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What Makes Life Worth Living? by Gordon Mathews Pdf

"A unique and provocative contribution to the fundamental question of what makes life worth living. Mathews works creatively with the similarities and differences in the United States and Japan to shed light on cultural values in the two societies."—John L. Caughey, author of Imaginary Social Worlds "Amidst trade wars, when Japanese workers are made into robots and trade negotiators into modern-day samurai, one longs for a sense of what Japanese humans are like. Gordon Mathews provides the answer. . . . His work is penetrating and rings true."—Ezra F. Vogel, author of Japan as Number One "An extraordinary book. Mathews's analysis of each pair of narratives is clear, delightful, and satisfying."—Takie Sugiyama Lebra, author of Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility

Author : Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802862938

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The Life Worth Living by Byron L. Sherwin Pdf

Each of us is confronted in life with visceral, personal, human questions: Why am I here? What is my life's purpose? For the reflective person of faith, life is an ongoing quest to respond to still further questions: Where is wisdom? What does the Lord require of me? The Life Worth Living provides answers to such questions - culled from Byron Sherwin's many years of religious wisdom and experience. / Sherwin's rich and lovely book lays out the path to abundant, fulfilled living - by cultivating religious virtues such as love, wisdom, gratitude, and humility. It demonstrates how living in partnership with God can provide all of us with the means to craft our lives into unique and "exquisite" works of art. Very accessibly written, The Life Worth Living will resonate with a wide spectrum of thoughtful readers - believers and seekers alike.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Economics
ISBN : HARVARD:LI3QQC

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Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Marsha M. Linehan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812984996

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Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan Pdf

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others. “This book is a victory on both sides of the page.”—Gloria Steinem “Are you one of us?” a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy. “Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope.” Over the years, DBT had saved the lives of countless people fighting depression and suicidal thoughts, but Linehan had never revealed that her pioneering work was inspired by her own desperate struggles as a young woman. Only when she received this question did she finally decide to tell her story. In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of emotional hell, she would try to find a way to help others get out of hell too, and to build a life worth living. She went on to put herself through night school and college, living at a YWCA and often scraping together spare change to buy food. She went on to get her PhD in psychology, specializing in behavior therapy. In the 1980s, she achieved a breakthrough when she developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a therapeutic approach that combines acceptance of the self and ways to change. Linehan included mindfulness as a key component in therapy treatment, along with original and specific life-skill techniques. She says, "You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking." Throughout her extraordinary scientific career, Marsha Linehan remained a woman of deep spirituality. Her powerful and moving story is one of faith and perseverance. Linehan shows, in Building a Life Worth Living, how the principles of DBT really work—and how, using her life skills and techniques, people can build lives worth living.

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Life
ISBN : UOM:39015026427263

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Is Life Worth Living? by William James Pdf

Author : David Dranove
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Cross-cultural studies
ISBN : 0130671657

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What's Your Life Worth? by David Dranove Pdf

One of the world's leading healthcare economists offers a hard-nosed analysisof the frightening reality of soaring healthcare costs--and shows how it willfeel to be at the mercy of a system that can't afford to cure anyone.