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Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

By: Aaron Stalnaker

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Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

By: Aaron Stalnaker

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority is an analysis of expertise and authority. Stalnaker examines classical Confucian conceptions of mastery, dependence, and human relationships in order to suggest new approaches to these issues in ethics and political theory.

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0190052309

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Overcoming Our Evil

Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine

By: Aaron Stalnaker

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Overcoming Our Evil

Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine

By: Aaron Stalnaker

Can people ever really change? Do they ever become more ethical, and if so, how? Overcoming Our Evil focuses on the way ethical and religious commitments are conceived and nurtured through the methodical practices that Pierre Hadot has called "spiritual exercises." These practices engage thought, imagination, and sensibility, and have a significant ethical component, yet aim for a broader transformation of the whole personality. Going beyond recent philosophical and historical work that has focused on ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, Stalnaker broadens ethical inquiry into spiritual exercises by examining East Asian as well as classical Christian sources, and taking religious and seemingly "aesthetic" practices such as prayer, ritual, and music more seriously as objects of study. More specifically, Overcoming Our Evil examines and compares the thought and practice of the early Christian Augustine of Hippo, and the early Confucian Xunzi. Both have sophisticated and insightful accounts of spiritual exercises, and both make such ethical work central to their religious thought and practice. Yet to understand the two thinkers' recommendations for cultivating virtue we must first understand some important differences. Here Stalnaker disentangles the competing aspects of Augustine and Xunxi's ideas of "human nature." His groundbreaking comparison of their ethical vocabularies also drives a substantive analysis of fundamental issues in moral psychology, especially regarding emotion and the complex idea of "the will," to examine how our dispositions to feel, think, and act might be slowly transformed over time. The comparison meticulously constructs vivid portraits of both thinkers demonstrating where they connect and where they diverge, making the case that both have been misunderstood and misinterpreted. In throwing light on these seemingly disparate ancient figures in unexpected ways, Stalnaker redirects recent debate regarding practices of personal formation, and more clearly exposes the intellectual and political issues involved in the retrieval of "classic" ethical sources in diverse contemporary societies, illuminating a path toward a contemporary understanding of difference.

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Georgetown University Press

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1589013840

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Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

By: Aaron Stalnaker

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Question Evaluation Methods

Contributing to the Science of Data Quality

By: Jennifer Madans,Kristen Miller,Aaron Maitland,Gordon B. Willis

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Question Evaluation Methods

Contributing to the Science of Data Quality

By: Jennifer Madans,Kristen Miller,Aaron Maitland,Gordon B. Willis

Insightful observations on common question evaluation methods and best practices for data collection in survey research Featuring contributions from leading researchers and academicians in the field of survey research, Question Evaluation Methods: Contributing to the Science of Data Quality sheds light on question response error and introduces an interdisciplinary, cross-method approach that is essential for advancing knowledge about data quality and ensuring the credibility of conclusions drawn from surveys and censuses. Offering a variety of expert analyses of question evaluation methods, the book provides recommendations and best practices for researchers working with data in the health and social sciences. Based on a workshop held at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), this book presents and compares various question evaluation methods that are used in modern-day data collection and analysis. Each section includes an introduction to a method by a leading authority in the field, followed by responses from other experts that outline related strengths, weaknesses, and underlying assumptions. Topics covered include: Behavior coding Cognitive interviewing Item response theory Latent class analysis Split-sample experiments Multitrait-multimethod experiments Field-based data methods A concluding discussion identifies common themes across the presented material and their relevance to the future of survey methods, data analysis, and the production of Federal statistics. Together, the methods presented in this book offer researchers various scientific approaches to evaluating survey quality to ensure that the responses to these questions result in reliable, high-quality data. Question Evaluation Methods is a valuable supplement for courses on questionnaire design, survey methods, and evaluation methods at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. it also serves as a reference for government statisticians, survey methodologists, and researchers and practitioners who carry out survey research in the areas of the social and health sciences.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118036999

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9781118036990

Belief

A Pragmatic Picture

By: Aaron Zachary Zimmerman

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Belief

A Pragmatic Picture

By: Aaron Zachary Zimmerman

Aaron Zimmerman presents a new pragmatist account of belief, in terms of information poised to guide our more attentive, controlled actions. And he explores the consequences of this account for our understanding of the relation between psychology and philosophy, the mind and brain, the nature of delusion, faith, pretence, racism, and more.

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Oxford University Press

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0198809514

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Moral Epistemology

By: Aaron Zimmerman

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Moral Epistemology

By: Aaron Zimmerman

How do we know right from wrong? Do we even have moral knowledge? Moral epistemology studies these and related questions about our understanding of virtue and vice. It is one of philosophy’s perennial problems, reaching back to Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, Hume and Kant, and has recently been the subject of intense debate as a result of findings in developmental and social psychology. In this outstanding introduction to the subject Aaron Zimmerman covers the following key topics: What is moral epistemology? What are its methods? Including a discussion of Socrates, Gettier and contemporary theories of knowledge skepticism about moral knowledge based on the anthropological record of deep and persistent moral disagreement, including contextualism moral nihilism, including debates concerning God and morality and the relation between moral knowledge and our motives and reasons to act morally epistemic moral scepticism, intuitionism and the possibility of inferring ‘ought’ from ‘is,’ discussing the views of Locke, Hume, Kant, Ross, Audi, Thomson, Harman, Sturgeon and many others how children acquire moral concepts and become more reliable judges criticisms of those who would reduce moral knowledge to value-neutral knowledge or attempt to replace moral belief with emotion. Throughout the book Zimmerman argues that our belief in moral knowledge can survive sceptical challenges. He also draws on a rich range of examples from Plato’s Meno and Dickens’ David Copperfield to Bernard Madoff and Saddam Hussein. Including chapter summaries and annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, Moral Epistemology is essential reading for all students of ethics, epistemology and moral psychology.

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Routledge

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1136965335

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Striving With Grace

Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England

By: Aaron J Kleist

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Striving With Grace

Views of Free Will in Anglo-Saxon England

By: Aaron J Kleist

The question of whether or not our decisions and efforts make a difference in an uncertain and uncontrollable world had enormous significance for writers in Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace looks at seven authors who wrote either in Latin or Old English, and the ways in which they sought to resolve this fundamental question. For Anglo-Saxon England, as for so much of the medieval West, the problem of individual will was complicated by a widespread theistic tradition that influenced writers, thinkers, and their hypotheses. Aaron J Kleist examines the many factors that produced strikingly different, though often complementary, explanations of free will in early England. Having first established the perspectives of Augustine, he considers two Church Fathers who rivalled Augustine's impact on early England, Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede, and reconstructs their influence on later English writers. He goes on to examine Alfred the Great's Old English Boethius and Lantfred of Winchester's Carmen de libero arbitrio, and the debt that both texts owe to Boethius' classic De consolatione Philosophiae. Finally, Kleist discusses Wulfstan the Homilist and Ælfric of Eynsham, two seminal writers of late Anglo-Saxon England. Striving with Grace shows that all of these authors, despite striking differences in their sources and logic, underscore humanity's need for grace even as they labour to affirm the legitimacy of human effort.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442691328

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9781442691322

Happiness in Action

For Young Aspiring Leaders of the Future

By: Aaron Chen,Jason Hendrawan

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Happiness in Action

For Young Aspiring Leaders of the Future

By: Aaron Chen,Jason Hendrawan

At one point or another, every single one of us has or will have confronted the question: “So, what’s the purpose of my doing?” Writing in the perspective of high-school students, who have many years of untapped opportunities ahead of us, we think that starting to ask ourselves this question is of utmost importance. Now, there are many answers to this question, perhaps an infinite number of them. But in this short book, we propose the simple answer: to be happy. Of course, we aren’t the first to jump aboard this train of thought. Humanity has thought about happiness as an integral goal of life for thousands of years, and individuals and institutions alike have continued to pursue this discussion today, whether that be through debate, research, or policies. And to this, we are thankful. Our predecessors’ efforts have provided us -the next generation- with ample resources to put the pursuit of happiness into action on a societal scale, should we choose to do so. In light of this very mission to continue the historical momentum, we present this little book of ours -- to our peers, to aspiring young leaders of the future who might wish to consider prospects of a happiness-oriented society, and to any reader interested in this quick read.

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Aaron Chen

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Analytic Philosophy

An Interpretive History

By: Aaron Preston

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Analytic Philosophy

An Interpretive History

By: Aaron Preston

Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.) shaped the analytic tradition, from Frege to Dummet. It offers readers 17 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international cast of leading scholars. Some chapters are devoted to large, thematic issues like the relationship between analytic philosophy and other philosophical traditions such as British Idealism and phenomenology, while other chapters are tied to more fine-grained topics or to individual philosophers, like Moore and Russell on philosophical method or the history of interpretations of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Throughout, the focus is on interpretations that are crucial to the origin, development, and persistence of the analytic tradition. The result is a more fully formed and philosophically satisfying portrait of analytic philosophy.

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Routledge

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131755681X

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Overcoming Our Evil

Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine

By: Aaron Stalnaker

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Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine

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Augustine and World Religions

By: Brian Brown,John A. Doody,Kim Paffenroth

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Augustine and World Religions

By: Brian Brown,John A. Doody,Kim Paffenroth

Augustine and World Religions examines Augustine's thought for how it can inform modern inter-religious dialogue. Despite Augustine's reputation as the father of Christian intolerance, one finds in his thought the surprising claim that within non-Christian writings there are 'some truths in regard even to the worship of the One God'. This, it seems, hints at a deeper level of respect and dialogue between religions, because one engages in such dialogue in order to better understand and worship God. The essays here uncover provocative points of comparison and similarity between Christianity and other religions to further such an Augustinian dialogue.

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Lexington Books

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1461632978

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Aaron Spelling

A Prime-time Life

By: Aaron Spelling,Jefferson Graham

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Aaron Spelling

A Prime-time Life

By: Aaron Spelling,Jefferson Graham

Provides a look into the rags-to-riches life of the famed Hollywood television producer who has been one of the most successful in the field for more than thirty-five years, creating such popular shows as Dynasty, The Love Boat and.

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0312142684

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Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

Overcoming Our Evil

Overcoming Our Evil

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

Mastery, Dependence, and the Ethics of Authority

Question Evaluation Methods

Question Evaluation Methods

Belief

Belief

Moral Epistemology

Moral Epistemology

Striving With Grace

Striving With Grace

Happiness in Action

Happiness in Action

Analytic Philosophy

Analytic Philosophy

Overcoming Our Evil

Overcoming Our Evil

Augustine and World Religions

Augustine and World Religions

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