Wisdom Justice And Charity

Author : Suzanne Morton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442666467

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One of Canada’s first social workers, Jane B. Wisdom had an active career in social welfare that spanned almost the first half of the twentieth century. Competent, thoughtful, and trusted, she had a knack for being in important places at pivotal moments. Wisdom’s transnational career took her from Saint John to Montreal, New York City, Halifax, and Glace Bay, as well as into almost every field of social work. Her story offers a remarkable opportunity to uncover what life was like for front-line social workers in the profession’s early years. In Wisdom, Justice, and Charity, historian Suzanne Morton uses Wisdom’s professional life to explore how the welfare state was built from the ground up by thousands of pragmatic and action-oriented social workers. Wisdom’s career illustrates the impact of professionalization, gender, and changing notions of the state – not just on those in the emergent profession of social work but also on those in need. Her life and career stand as a potent allegory for the limits and possibilities of individual action.

Author : Suzanne Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 1442666455

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Wisdom, Justice and Charity by Suzanne Morton Pdf

In Wisdom, Justice, and Charity, historian Suzanne Morton uses Jane B. Wisdom's professional life to explore how the welfare state was built from the ground up by thousands of pragmatic and action-oriented social workers.

Author : Tim Chappell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317492658

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Ethics and Experience by Tim Chappell Pdf

"Ethics and Experience" presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived? 'An excellent primer for any student taking a course on moral philosophy, the book introduces ethics as a single and broadly unified field of inquiry in which we apply reason to try and solve Socrates' question. "Ethics and Experience "examines the major forms of ethical subjectivism and objectivism - including expressivism, error theory', naturalism, and intuitionism. The book lays out the detail of the most significant contemporary moral theories - including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and contractarianism - and reconsiders these theories in the light of two questions that should perhaps be asked more often: Is moral theory, with its tendency to regiment ethical thought and experience, really the best way for us to apply reason to deciding how to live? And, might it not be more truly reasonable to look for less system and more insight?

Author : Janice Harvey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228020295

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Their Benevolent Design by Janice Harvey Pdf

Throughout the nineteenth century poor relief in Quebec was private and sectarian. In Montreal bourgeois Protestant women responded by establishing institutional charities for destitute women and children. Their Benevolent Design delves into the inner workings of two of these charities (the Protestant Orphan Asylum and the Montreal Ladies’ Benevolent Society), sheds light on little-known aspects of the community’s response to social inequality, and examines the impact of liberalism on changing attitudes to poverty and charity. Seeing charity as a class duty, elite women structured their benevolent design around the protection, religious salvation, and social regulation of poor children. Janice Harvey explores how these philanthropists overcame the constraints of social conventions for women in polite society, how charity directors devised and implemented institutional aid, and how that aid was used by families and experienced by children. Following the development of the charities through the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth, the book explores the conflict that arose between these institutions and other social services, including those that advocated for foster care and so-called scientific charity. The 1920s marked a major social shift in how child poverty was understood and managed in Protestant Montreal. Despite the gendered obstacles facing women in charity organization, Their Benevolent Design celebrates the remarkable ingenuity and independence of a group of Canadian women in shaping social aid and improving the grim realities of child poverty.

Author : Carl Mitcham,Jim Grote,Levi Checketts
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666790719

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Theology and Technology, Volume 2 by Carl Mitcham,Jim Grote,Levi Checketts Pdf

Originally published nearly forty years ago as a spiritual successor to Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey’s Philosophy and Technology, the essays collected in the two volumes of Theology and Technology span an array of theological attitudes and perspectives providing sufficient material for careful reflection and engagement. The first volume offers five general attitudes toward technology based off of H. Richard Niebuhr’s five ideal types in Christ and Culture. The second volume includes biblical, historical, and modern theological engagements with the place of technology in the Christian life. This ecumenical collection ranges from authors who enthusiastically support technological development to those cynical of technique and engages the Christian tradition from the church fathers to recent theologians like Bernard Lonergan and Jacques Ellul. Taken together, these essays, some reproductions of earlier work and others original for this project, provide any student of theology a fitting entrée into considering the place of technology in the realm of the sacred.

Author : Christopher Johns
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780937663

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The Science of Right in Leibniz's Moral and Political Philosophy by Christopher Johns Pdf

Studies of Gottfried Leibniz's moral and political philosophy typically focus on metaphysical perfection, happiness, or love. In this new reading of Leibniz, Christopher Johns shows that it is based on a 'science of right'. Based on the deontic concepts of jus (right) and obligation, this science of right is established in Leibniz's early writings on jurisprudence and depended on throughout several of his major late writings. Johns shows that the moral rightness of an action is grounded in the rights and obligations derived from the agent's capacity for freedom. This new interpretation of Leibniz's moral philosophy compares Leibniz's positions with Grotius, Pufendorf, Hobbes, Locke, and Kant. Providing a comprehensive examination of Leibniz's most important writings on natural right, John's argues that Leibniz, properly understood, provides a compelling account of the grounds of morality and of political institutions-an account relevant to present philosophical debates.

Author : Cynthia Long Westfall,Bryan R. Dyer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498238083

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The Bible and Social Justice by Cynthia Long Westfall,Bryan R. Dyer Pdf

Although the cry for justice in human society is an important theme in the Bible, in many church and academic circles action for and discourse about social justice is carried on without a thorough exploration of this theme in Scripture. This volume brings together chapters by experts in the various sections of the Old and New Testaments to give a full spectrum of what the Bible has to say about social justice, and to point to ways forward for Christians seeking to think and act in harmony with God in pursuing social justice in the world today.

Author : R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0415038081

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophy of mind, freewill, political philosophy, influences by R. S. Woolhouse Pdf

Author : Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804785723

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Being Given by Jean-Luc Marion Pdf

Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of the classic works of phenomenology in the twentieth century. Through readings of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and twentieth-century French phenomenology (e.g., Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Henry), it ventures a bold and decisive reappraisal of phenomenology and its possibilities. Its author's most original work to date, the book pushes phenomenology to its limits in an attempt to redefine and recover the phenomenological ideal, which the author argues has never been realized in any of the historical phenomenologies. Against Husserl's reduction to consciousness and Heidegger's reduction to Dasein, the author proposes a third reduction to givenness, wherein phenomena appear unconditionally and show themselves from themselves at their own initiative. Being Given is the clearest, most systematic response to questions that have occupied its author for the better part of two decades. The book articulates a powerful set of concepts that should provoke new research in philosophy, religion, and art, as well as at the intersection of these disciplines. Some of the significant issues it treats include the phenomenological definition of the phenomenon, the redefinition of the gift in terms not of economy but of givenness, the nature of saturated phenomena, and the question "Who comes after the subject?" Throughout his consideration of these issues, the author carefully notes their significance for the increasingly popular fields of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Being Given is therefore indispensable reading for anyone interested in the question of the relation between the phenomenological and the theological in Marion and emergent French phenomenology.

Author : J. G. H. BROWN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019460008

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Charity, Rest, and Freedom, in the Reign of Glory, etc by J. G. H. BROWN Pdf

Author : Anthony Carty,Janne Nijman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191649011

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Morality and Responsibility of Rulers by Anthony Carty,Janne Nijman Pdf

The history of ideas on rule of law for world order is a fascinating one, as revealed in this comparative study of both Eastern and Western traditions. This book discerns 'rule of law as justice' conceptions alternative to the positivist conceptions of the liberal internationalist rule of law today. The volume begins by revisiting early-modern European roots of rule of law for world order thinking. In doing so it looks to Northern Humanism and to natural law, in the sense of justice as morally and reasonably ordered self-discipline. Such a standard is not an instrument of external monitoring but of self-reflection and self-cultivation. It then considers whether comparable concepts exist in Chinese thought. Inspired by Confucius and even Laozi, the Chinese official and intellectual elite readily imagined that international law was governed by moral principles similar to their own. A series of case studies then reveals the dramatic change after the East-West encounters from the 1860s until after 1901, as Chinese disillusionment with the Hobbesian positivism of Western international law becomes ever more apparent. What, therefore, are the possibilities of traditional Chinese and European ethical thinking in the context of current world affairs? Considering the obstacles which stand in the way of this, both East and West, this book reaches the conclusion that everything is possible even in a world dominated by state bureaucracies and late capitalist postmodernism. The rational, ethical spirit is universal.

Author : John Bunyan,Henry Stebbing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118898878

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The Entire Works of John Bunyan by John Bunyan,Henry Stebbing Pdf

Author : John Bunyan,Henry Stebbing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2754375

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Entire Works by John Bunyan,Henry Stebbing Pdf

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555087238

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The entire works of John Bunyan, ed. by H. Stebbing by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : Wendy Sims-Schouten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429815430

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Safeguarding and Mental Health Support in Contemporary Childhood by Wendy Sims-Schouten Pdf

Approaches regarding safeguarding and mental health in childhood have been in constant flux. Framed within a critical realist ontology, this book provides insight into causal factors (individual, material, institutional) and social structures that impact on the continued legacy of the ‘deserving/undeserving' paradigm. Drawing on historical data from children taken into care by the Waifs and Strays Society (1881–1918) and contemporary data from interviews with young care leavers and safeguarding practitioners/professionals, this book shows how at present and in the past, certain children and families miss(ed) out on support and interventions due to complex needs, financial cuts and ever-changing thresholds. It is the group of children referred to as ‘victims’, a term used for the most disadvantaged children who have spent time in care, have complex mental health needs and have had the most damaging pre-care family experiences, who are the focus of this book. This book shows that in an attempt to provide services where there are ever increasing thresholds for access and cuts to resources, a resurgence of the ‘deserving/undeserving’ paradigm reflects a contemporary justification regarding who is 'entitled' to help and who is not. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work, social policy, childhood studies, sociology and education policy.