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Being and Logos

Reading the Platonic Dialogues

By: John Sallis

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Being and Logos

Reading the Platonic Dialogues

By: John Sallis

An exercise in the careful reading of the dialogues in their originary character. “Being and Logos is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that the philosopher will want to re-read along with the dialogues themselves. A superadded gift is the author’s prose, which is a model of lucidity and grace.” —International Philosophical Quarterly “Being and Logos is highly recommended for those who wish to learn how a thoughtful scholar approaches Platonic dialogues as well as for those who wish to consider a serious discussion of some basic themes in the dialogues.” —The Academic Reviewer

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Indiana University Press

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0253044340

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9780253044341

Reason and Emotion

Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory

By: John M. Cooper

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Reason and Emotion

Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory

By: John M. Cooper

This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a unified and illuminating way of reflecting on the fields as they developed from Socrates and Plato through Aristotle to Epicurus and the Stoic philosophers Chrysippus and Posidonius, and beyond. For the ancient philosophers, Cooper shows here, morality was "good character" and what that entailed: good judgment, sensitivity, openness, reflectiveness, and a secure and correct sense of who one was and how one stood in relation to others and the surrounding world. Ethical theory was about the best way to be rather than any principles for what to do in particular circumstances or in relation to recurrent temptations. Moral psychology was the study of the psychological conditions required for good character--the sorts of desires, the attitudes to self and others, the states of mind and feeling, the kinds of knowledge and insight. Together these papers illustrate brilliantly how, by studying the arguments of the Greek philosophers in their diverse theories about the best human life and its psychological underpinnings, we can expand our own moral understanding and imagination and enrich our own moral thought. The collection will be crucial reading for anyone interested in classical philosophy and what it can contribute to reflection on contemporary questions about ethics and human life.

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Princeton University Press

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069105875X

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9780691058757

Ethics

The Basics

By: John Mizzoni

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Ethics

The Basics

By: John Mizzoni

Ethics: The Basics provides beginning students with a solid grounding in basic ethical principles, theories and traditions, as well as a set of conceptual tools necessary to think about ethics and make ethical decisions. Introduces ethical concepts, theories, and traditions in an unusually reader-friendly manner Considers western and non-western ethical viewpoints and religious interpretations of ethical concepts Includes end of chapter summaries, case studies, review questions, diagrams and an appendix containing definitions of all the ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions introduced in the book

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233

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405189940

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9781405189941

Filled with the Spirit

By: John R. Levison

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Filled with the Spirit

By: John R. Levison

Containing meticulous, up-to-date scholarship yet written in a flowing, enjoyable style, this comprehensive book takes readers on a journey through a breathtaking array of literary texts, encompassing the literature of Israel, early Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and the New Testament. John R. Levison's skill with ancient texts -- already demonstrated in his acclaimed The Spirit in First-Century Judaism -- is here extended to a myriad of other expressions of the Spirit in antiquity.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802863728

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9780802863720

Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics

By: John Bowlin

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Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics

By: John Bowlin

In this study John Bowlin argues that Aquinas's moral theology receives much of its character and content from an assumption about our common lot: the good we desire is difficult to know and to will, in particular because of contingencies of various kinds - within ourselves, in the ends and objects we pursue, and in the circumstances of choice. Since contingencies are fortune's effects, Aquinas insists that it is fortune that makes good choice difficult. Bowlin then explicates Aquinas's treatment of a number of topics in light of this difficulty: the moral and theological virtues, the first precepts of the natural law, the voluntariness of virtuous action, and the happiness available to us in this life. By noting that Aquinas proceeds with an eye on fortune's threats to virtue, agency, and happiness, Bowlin places him more precisely in the history of ethics, among Aristotle, Augustine, and the Stoics.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521620198

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9780521620192

Mind, Value, and Reality

By: John Henry McDowell

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Mind, Value, and Reality

By: John Henry McDowell

This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.

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Harvard University Press

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0674007131

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9780674007130

A Cyclopedia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths

By: John Bate

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A Cyclopedia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths

By: John Bate

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368718657

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Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World

By: John von Heyking

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Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World

By: John von Heyking

Saint Augustine's political thought has usually been interpreted by modern readers as suggesting that politics is based on sin. In Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World, John von Heyking shows that Augustine actually considered political life a substantive good that fulfills a human longing for a kind of wholeness. Rather than showing Augustine as supporting the Christian church's domination of politics, von Heyking argues that he held a subtler view of the relationship between religion and politics, one that preserves the independence of political life. And while many see his politics as based on a natural-law ethic or on one in which authority is conferred by direct revelation, von Heyking shows how Augustine held to an understanding of political ethics that emphasizes practical wisdom and judgment in a mode that resembles Aristotle rather than Machiavelli.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826263712

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9780826263711

Theories of Scientific Progress

An Introduction

By: John Losee

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Theories of Scientific Progress

An Introduction

By: John Losee

There seems little doubt that we have made progress in scientific theories, but how? Theories of Scientific Progress presents the arguments, covers interpretations of scientific progress and discusses the latest contemporary debates.

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Psychology Press

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0415320666

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9780415320665

Radical Virtues

Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life

By: Richard John White

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Radical Virtues

Moral Wisdom and the Ethics of Contemporary Life

By: Richard John White

What is a good life? What does it mean to be a good person? Richard White answers these questions by considering aspects of moral goodness through the virtues: courage, temperance, justice, compassion, and wisdom. White explores how moral virtues affect and support social movements such as pacifism, environmentalism, multiculturalism, and animal rights. Drawing on the classics, White includes historical and cross-cultural analysis and examines the lives of Socrates, Buddha, and Gandhi, who lived virtuous lives, to help the reader understand and acquire moral wisdom. Book jacket.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742561003

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9780742561007

The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing

A Phenomenological Philosophy of Practice

By: Anne H. Bishop,John R. Scudder,John R. Scudder, Jr.

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The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing

A Phenomenological Philosophy of Practice

By: Anne H. Bishop,John R. Scudder,John R. Scudder, Jr.

The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing is the first explicitly philosophical articulation in English of the essence of nursing from a phenomenological perspective. The authors interpret nursing as competencies and excellences that are exercised in an "in-between" situation characteristic of nursing practice (the practical sense) which fosters the well-being of patients (the moral sense) within the nurse-patient relationship (the personal sense). This directly challenges the current tendency to reconstruct nursing by using theories drawn from the behavioral and natural sciences, and shows why nursing must be reformed from within. Bishop and Scudder stress the use of phenomenology to articulate an actual practice, showing the unique capacity of phenomenology to illuminate actual situations and to generate fresh understandings of old problems.

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SUNY Press

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0791402517

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9780791402511

Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche

By: John H. Riker

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Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche

By: John H. Riker

This book explores the possibility of grounding the idea of human excellence, which has traditionally been associated with hierarchical systems, on an ecological structuring of the psyche. Riker bases his concept on recent work in psychoanalytic theory, emotion theory, sociobiology, ethnogenic social psychology, and feminism, as well as on the insights of such philosophers as Aristotle, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.

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0791405184

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Stoicism

By: John Sellars

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Stoicism

By: John Sellars

Stoicism needs a new work of this kind. Sellars not only takes good account of the last thirty years of research, he also has much of his own to contribute. I particularly applaud his focus on Epictetus and on Stoicism as an art of life. "--A.A. Long, author of Stoic Studies

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Univ of California Press

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0520249089

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Book's by John Virtue

Being and Logos

Being and Logos

Reason and Emotion

Reason and Emotion

Ethics

Ethics

Filled with the Spirit

Filled with the Spirit

Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics

Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics

Mind, Value, and Reality

Mind, Value, and Reality

A Cyclopedia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths

A Cyclopedia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths

Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World

Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World

Theories of Scientific Progress

Theories of Scientific Progress

Radical Virtues

Radical Virtues

The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing

The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing

Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche

Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche

Stoicism

Stoicism

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