This book discusses how human lives are equated with the material, and argues that pricing lives lies at the core of the political; in fact, as in Plato or Hobbes, and in the Weberian ethics of responsibility, measurement is considered to be one of its central features.
In this volume, Carolina Sartorio makes the case for big-picture causalism: a naturalistic conception of agency and free agency that unifies the two phenomena under a common thesis.
Thought experiments of a sort devised by Harry Frankfurt are widely believed to be counterexamples to the principle that a person is morally responsible for what he did only if he could have avoided doing it.
This book discusses how human lives are equated with the material, and argues that pricing lives lies at the core of the political; in fact, as in Plato or Hobbes, and in the Weberian ethics of responsibility, measurement is considered to be one of its central features.
Julius Evola and the Radical Right examines the ideas and influence of Italian thinker Julius Evola (1898-1974), an increasingly popular author within the far right and the esoteric milieu alike.
The aim of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Social Work is to provide a comprehensive text, taking on assessment (biopsychosocial-cultural/spiritual risk and resilience; DSM; standardized assessment scales); goal-setting; and intervention, including medication, evidence-based interventions and the process of evidence-based practice with children and adolescents.
Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our understanding of time, geometry, and physics.
The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture.
Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, isolation and subordination of children.
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics was until recently treated as a poor cousin of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics - poor enough even to have to borrow its three central books (IV-VI) from the latter.
Destinée au « grand public », aux élèves de classe terminale, aux étudiants de classes préparatoires ou de licence, la collection Apprendre à philosopher propose une introduction très didactique à la pensée des grands philosophes.
Walter Benjamin's "e;Critique of Violence,"e; widely considered his final word on law, proposes that all manifestations of law are false stand-ins for divine principles of truth and justice that are no longer available to human beings.
Ceux qui pensent que la philosophie ne consiste qu'à poser des questions insolubles et formuler des opinions personnelles sans aucune connaissance préalable se trompent lourdement.
The Complete Leadership Textbook for Ministry--Biblical, Practical, and ProvenLeadership Essentials for Christian Ministries equips ministry leaders, seminary students, and church volunteers with the biblical foundations and practical skills needed to lead with confidence in congregational, nonprofit, and parachurch settings.
Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault.
This book offers a fresh interpretation of covenantal theology in the Reformation by demonstrating how the writings of the Zurich reformers Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) and his successor Heinrich Bullinger (1504-75) decisively shaped a foundation of the Reformed tradition.
Aristotle's moral and political thought formed the backbone of education in practical philosophy for centuries during the classical and medieval periods.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Wechselwirkungen zwischen neuen Medien und Religion bestehen.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Theologie - Religion als Schulfach, Note: 1,3, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit fast sieben Monaten ließen meine Eltern mich taufen.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: Sehr gut, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Interpretation des sächsischen Taufgelöbnisses und fertigt eine Quellenanalyse an.
Ever since Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, epistemology has been haunted by external world skepticism, the view that no one knows or even has reason to believe anything about the world around us.
Schopenhauer is most recognizable as "e;the philosopher of pessimism,"e; the author of a system that teaches how art and morality can help human beings navigate life in "e;the worst of all possible worlds.
This comprehensive new presentation of the religion of the Rigveda is the result of a thorough-going endeavour to extrapolate historical circumstances from that literary text and present them chiefly from the perspective of the adherents to this religion.
Ever since Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, epistemology has been haunted by external world skepticism, the view that no one knows or even has reason to believe anything about the world around us.
Schopenhauer is most recognizable as "e;the philosopher of pessimism,"e; the author of a system that teaches how art and morality can help human beings navigate life in "e;the worst of all possible worlds.
This comprehensive new presentation of the religion of the Rigveda is the result of a thorough-going endeavour to extrapolate historical circumstances from that literary text and present them chiefly from the perspective of the adherents to this religion.
Over the last fifty years, scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields have substantially enriched traditional philosophical theories about who we are and where we come from.
Over the last fifty years, scholars in biology, psychology, anthropology, and cognate fields have substantially enriched traditional philosophical theories about who we are and where we come from.
