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Love and the Dignity of Human Life

On Nature and Natural Law

By: Robert Spaemann

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Love and the Dignity of Human Life

On Nature and Natural Law

By: Robert Spaemann

What does it mean to love someone? What does the concept of human dignity mean, and what are its consequences? What marks the end of a person's life? Is personhood more than consciousness? These perplexing questions lurk beneath the surface of everyday life, surfacing only to demand urgent attention in crises. Renowned German philosopher Robert Spaemann addresses these and other foundational enigmas in three eloquent short essays. Speaking wisdom to controversy, he offers carefully considered, novel approaches to key philosophical and theological questions about the nature of human love ("The Paradoxes of Love"), dignity ("Human Dignity and Human Nature"), and death ("Is Brain Death the Death of a Human Person?").

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Persons

The Difference Between 'someone' and 'something'

By: Robert Spaemann

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The Difference Between 'someone' and 'something'

By: Robert Spaemann

An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack. Robert Spaemann tackles urgent practical questions, such as our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals.

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0199281815

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Happiness and Benevolence

By: Robert Spaemann

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Happiness and Benevolence

By: Robert Spaemann

Christian philosopher Robert Spaemann takes the reader on a quest for the fundamental principles of ethics. Writing in a clear style accessible to non-specialists, drawing both on ancient and modern philosophy, from Aristotle, Plato and Aquinas to Kant and Hegel, he discovers the intimate relationship between ethics and ontology - the science of being. This book is written for theologians as well as philosophers - indeed for anyone who is concerned with the meaning of a 'life well lived', with good and evil and the search for happiness.

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0567042316

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Happiness and Benevolence

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Love and the Dignity of Human Life

On Nature and Natural Law

By: Robert Spaemann

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On Nature and Natural Law

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Essays in Anthropology

Variations on a Theme

By: Robert Spaemann

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Essays in Anthropology

Variations on a Theme

By: Robert Spaemann

The question of the nature of humanity is one of the most complex of all philosophical and theological inquiries. Where might one look to find a decent answer to this question? Should we turn to an investigation of genetics and DNA for such answers? Should we look to the history of humanity's adaption and evolution? Should we look to humanity's cultural achievements and the form of its social life? In this intriguing and provocative collection of essays, philosopher Robert Spaemann reacts against what he calls "scientistic" anthropology and ventures to take up afresh the quaestio de homine, "the question of man." Spaemann contends that when it comes to the nagging question of what we truly are as human beings, understanding our chemical make-up or evolutionary past simply cannot give us the full picture. Instead, without doing away with the findings of modern evolutionary science, Spaemann offers successive treatments of human nature, human evolution, and human dignity, which paint a full and compelling picture of the meaning of human life. Crucial to any anthropology, he demonstrates, is our future as well as our past. And our relationship to God as well as to our next-door neighbor. All of these themes coalesce in a vital contribution to the question of what it means to be human.

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1621891119

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Persons

The Difference Between 'someone' and 'something'

By: Robert Spaemann

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The Difference Between 'someone' and 'something'

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Christian Faith & Human Understanding

Studies on the Eucharist, Trinity, and the Human Person

By: Robert Sokolowski

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Christian Faith & Human Understanding

Studies on the Eucharist, Trinity, and the Human Person

By: Robert Sokolowski

In this collection of essays, renowned philosopher Robert Sokolowski illustrates how Christian faith is not an alternative to reason, but rather an enhancement of it.

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Law's Ideal Dimension

By: Robert Alexy

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Law's Ideal Dimension

By: Robert Alexy

Law's Ideal Dimension provides a comprehensive account in English of renowned legal theorist Robert Alexy's understanding of jurisprudence, as expanded upon from his publications A Theory of Legal Argumentation (OUP 1989), A Theory of Constitutional Rights (OUP 1985), and The Argument from Injustice (OUP 1992). The collection is divided into three parts. Part One concerns the nature of law: it explores its real and ideal dimensions and how the ideal dimension of law is sometimes employed but does not play a systematically important role. Part Two discusses constitutional rights, human rights, and proportionality. It defends the construction of constitutional rights as principles against objections raised by the rule construction and elaborates on the nature of constitutional rights as well as the mathematical balancing of those rights. Part Three concerns the relation between argumentation, correctness, and law. The author concludes this volume with a biographical reflection.

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Oxford University Press

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0192516965

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Critical Theory and Classroom Talk

By: Robert Young

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Critical Theory and Classroom Talk

By: Robert Young

An application of Young's Habermasian critical theory of education to classroom communication problems of teachers in schools, with a special focus on the question/answer cycle and its educational role. The book uses classroom transcripts extensively in the analysis.

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Essays in Anthropology

Variations on a Theme

By: Robert Spaemann

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Variations on a Theme

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Jurgen Habermas

Critic in the Public Sphere

By: Robert C. Holub

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Jurgen Habermas

Critic in the Public Sphere

By: Robert C. Holub

The most important intellectual in the Federal Republic of Germany for the past three decades, Habermas has been a seminal contributor to fields ranging from sociology and political science to philosophy and cultural studies. Although he has stood at the centre of concern in his native land, he has been less readily accepted outside Germany, particularly in the humanities. His theoretical work postulates the centrality of communication and understanding, and as such his strategy of debate is marked by a politically informed unity of theory and practice. Holub's book is the first detailed account of the major debates in which Habermas has engaged since the early sixties. It stems from the conviction that his critics have not understood the political strategy behind his various interventions, or the consistency that informs his intellectual activities. Habermas is viewed in dialogue with important philosophical, sociological and political currents in West Germany. Holub demonstrates how Habermas pursues a course that incorporates various aspects of his opponents' positions, while simultaneously defending perceived threats to democracy and open discussion.

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The Day Is Now Far Spent

By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

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The Day Is Now Far Spent

By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

Robert Cardinal Sarah calls The Day Is Now Far Spent his most important book. He analyzes the spiritual, moral, and political collapse of the Western world and concludes that "the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril." A cultural identity crisis, he writes, is at the root of the problems facing Western societies. "The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations." While making clear the gravity of the present situation, the cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God, a world without hope. He calls for a renewal of devotion to Christ through prayer and the practice of virtue.

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Ignatius Press

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1642290904

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Things Beyond Resemblance

Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno

By: Robert Hullot-Kentor

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Things Beyond Resemblance

Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno

By: Robert Hullot-Kentor

Examining Adorno's thesis that sacrifice is the primordial form of human domination, this work contains essays that cover Adorno's New York City writings on radio; his affinities with Wallace Stevens and Nabokov; his relationship with Kierkegaard, psychoanalysis, and Walter Benjamin; and his musings on popular music.

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0231136595

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Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Volume One

The Dream is Over

By: Robert Denoon Cumming

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Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Volume One

The Dream is Over

By: Robert Denoon Cumming

Cumming also shows that conversion is not merely a personal predisposition of Sartre's--further manifest in his later conversions to Heidegger and to a version of Marxism. Conversion is also philosophical preoccupation, illustrated by the "conversion to the imaginary" whereby Sartre explains how he himself, as well as Genet and Flaubert, became writers. Finally, Cumming details how Husserl's phenomenological method contributed both to the shaping of Sartre's style as a literary writer and to his theory of style.

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Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings

Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High-Stakes Environment

By: Michael St.Pierre,Gesine Hofinger,Robert Simon

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Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings

Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High-Stakes Environment

By: Michael St.Pierre,Gesine Hofinger,Robert Simon

This book is unique in providing a comprehensive overview of the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute care. By elucidating the principles of human behavior and decision-making in critical situations and identifying frequent sources of human error, it will help healthcare professionals provide safer, more effective treatment when dealing with emergencies characterized by uncertainty, high stakes, time pressure, and stress. The third edition has emerged from an ongoing synergistic relationship between clinicians and behavioral scientists on both sides of the Atlantic to update and enhance each chapter -- blending the strengths of the two professions into a readily accessible text. Among other improvements, readers will find sharper articulation of concepts and significantly more information on the organizational impact on individual and team performance. Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings is the required reference for all who are learning about, teaching, or providing acute and emergency healthcare. It will be of high value for undergraduate and graduate medical and nursing program and offer a much-needed resource for those who use high-fidelity healthcare simulation to teach teamwork.

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3319414275

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Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies

By: Robert Wokler

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Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies

By: Robert Wokler

Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a number of less prominent debates, including those over cosmopolitanism, the nature and social role of music and the origins of the human sciences in the Enlightenment controversy over the relationship between humans and the great apes. These essays also explore Rousseau's relationships to Rameau, Pufendorf, Voltaire and Marx; reflect on the work of important earlier scholars of the Enlightenment, including Ernst Cassirer and Isaiah Berlin; and examine the influence of the Enlightenment on the twentieth century. One of the central themes of the book is a defense of the Enlightenment against the common charge that it bears responsibility for the Terror of the French Revolution, the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth-century and the Holocaust.

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1400842409

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The Personalism of Edith Stein

A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology

By: Robert McNamara

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The Personalism of Edith Stein

A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology

By: Robert McNamara

Edith Stein's life and thought intersect with many important movements of life and thought in the twentieth century. Through her life and eventual martyrdom, she gave witness to the primacy of truth and faith in the face of political totalitarianism, and in her philosophical works, she contributed to a synthesis of phenomenological thought with the thought of Aquinas, while also progressively advancing a compelling form of philosophical personalism. As a result, Stein represents one of the most important Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century and is a figure of growing fascination and devotion among believers and nonbelievers alike. The Personalism of Edith Stein is an investigation of Stein's mature philosophical anthropology, exploring her engagement with the thought of Aquinas and Thomism while maintaining the phenomenological mode of investigation. Through a careful examination of Stein's later works under the themes of human nature, the human individual, and the human being's relation to God, McNamara shows that Stein's mature personalism is considerably expanded and substantiated by her assimilation of key anthropological and metaphysical teachings of Aquinas and Thomism, and, conversely, that Stein significantly develops and deepens these same teachings through a phenomenological reconsideration of each from a personalist perspective. As a whole, the study reveals the profound accord between Stein's mature thought and the received teachings of Aquinas, while yet carefully attending to the remaining differences between them. Ultimately, the author proposes that Stein imbues the teachings of Aquinas with a fundamental personalization such that her mature anthropology can be understood as a Thomistically informed personalism that represents a significant, original contribution to the anthropological dimension of the philosophia perennis.

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The Quest for Community

A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom

By: Robert Nisbet

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The Quest for Community

A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom

By: Robert Nisbet

One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. This edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus features a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.

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1684516366

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Theory of International Law

By: Robert Kolb

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Theory of International Law

By: Robert Kolb

This book seeks to analyse various aspects of international law, the link being how they structure and marshal the different forces in the international legal order. It takes the following approaches to the matter. First, an attempt is made to determine the fundamental characteristics of international law, the forces that delineate and permeate its applications. Secondly, the multiple relations between law and policy are analysed. Politics are a highly relevant factor in the implementation of every legal order (and also a threat to it); this is all the more true in international law, where the two forces, law and politics, have significant links. Thirdly, the discussion focuses on a series of fundamental socio-legal notions: the common good, justice, legal security, reciprocity (plus equality and proportionality), liberty, ethics and social morality, and reason.

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Christian Faith & Human Understanding

Studies on the Eucharist, Trinity, and the Human Person

By: Robert Sokolowski

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Christian Faith & Human Understanding

Studies on the Eucharist, Trinity, and the Human Person

By: Robert Sokolowski

In this collection of essays, renowned philosopher Robert Sokolowski illustrates how Christian faith is not an alternative to reason, but rather an enhancement of it.

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Bonheur et bienveillance

essai sur l'éthique

By: Robert Spaemann

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Bonheur et bienveillance

essai sur l'éthique

By: Robert Spaemann

Dans la philosophie morale d'aujourd'hui, y a-t-il encore une place pour ce que les Grecs nommaient l'eudaimonia, le bonheur ou la réussite de la vie ? Telle pourrait être la forme moderne de la question fondatrice de toute éthique : entre la dispersion des instants de plaisir et l'unité impersonnelle du devoir, quelle norme commune peut éclairer l'homme dans la conquête de son humanité ? Robert Spaemann, dans cet essai sur l'éthique, montre à la fois comment cette question s'enracine et se différencie à travers toute la tradition philosophique, et quels sont les problèmes sans précédent qui, aujourd'hui, appellent le philosophe à la reprendre à nouveaux frais. La réponse proposée par Robert Spaemann tient en deux éléments principaux : rappeler, contre les théories modernes réductionnistes, qu' "il n'y a pas d'éthique sans métaphysique " ; montrer que ce fondement métaphysique trouve son expression dans l'expérience de la " bienveillance ", par laquelle le sujet s'éveille à la raison et à la réalité d'autrui. C'est cet " éveil " qui peut motiver la structuration de l'amour par la responsabilité, et son aboutissement dans le pardon.

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2130480578

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The Rapaport / Holt Correspondence - 1948 - 1960

By: David Rapaport,Robert R Holt

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The Rapaport / Holt Correspondence - 1948 - 1960

By: David Rapaport,Robert R Holt

For the Introductin by Robert Holt: Late in July 2011, I had an unexpected call from Arnold D. Richards, an old acquaintance. He asked if I happened to have any unpublished papers on psychoanalysis; if so, he offered to make them available to their most likely audience through International Psychoanalysis. It happened that, for about a year, I had been trying to find a publisher for a collection of letters between David Rapaport and me during his final 12 years (1948-1960). When I mentioned that to Dr. Richards, he at once expressed interest, and at last here we are. How vividly these letters helped me relive twelve years of some of the most intellectually stimulating experiences of my life I felt the obligation to share them with any interested colleagues, especially because Rapaport had been in the most productive years of his psychoanalytic scholarship. Many of our exchanges give an insight into his way of working, of thinking through difficult issues by discussion. Those who knew him well were aware of the many drafts his papers would go through, but few of us were privy to his ways of working ideas out, making them at once more subtle and clearer. The letters also display Rapaport as a critic, a mentor and teacher, as he sent me his critiques of my various attempts, often to follow in his footsteps and at times to branch out on my own. He set the example of close reading, responding empathically as well as unsparingly in pointing out difficulties, lapses in reasoning, omissions of relevant data or of treatments of apposite points in the literature. Though he never succeeded in writing English like one born to it, he was a fine critic of grammatical and rhetorical lapses--as the reader will soon see. I did my best not only to meet his criticism but to learn from it his style and technique of editing and advising, and to apply that learning to the drafts that he sent me.

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