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Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy

By: Susan Mendus

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Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy

By: Susan Mendus

The debate between impartialists and their critics has dominated both moral and political philosophy for over a decade. Characteristically, impartialists argue that any sensible form of impartialism can accommodate the partial concerns we have for others. By contrast, partialists deny that this is so. They see the division as one which runs exceedingly deep and argue that, at the limit, impartialist thinking requires that we marginalise those concerns and commitments that make our lives meaningful. This book attempts to show both that the dispute between impartialists and their critics runs very deep, and that it can nonetheless be resolved. The resolution begins by asking how impartialist political philosophy can defend the priority of justice when it conflicts with people's commitments to their conceptions of the good. It is argued that priority can only defended if political impartialism has a moral foundation, and that moral foundation must not be a foundation in the ideal of equality (as is often thought), but a foundation in the partial concerns we have for others. In short, impartialist moral philosophy must take our partial concerns as central if it is to gain allegiance. However, if it does take our partial concerns as central, then it can generate a defence of political impartialism which shows why justice must take priority, but which also acknowledges that pluralism about the good is permanent.

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0191522961

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Politics and Morality

By: Susan Mendus

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Politics and Morality

By: Susan Mendus

Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and distrust, and electoral turnout in many modern democracies continues to fall. But are we right to display such contempt towards our elected representatives? Can politicians be morally good or is politics destined to involve dirty hands or the loss of integrity, as many modern philosophers claim? In this book, Susan Mendus seeks to address these important questions to assess whether this apparent tension between morality and politics is real and, if so, why. Beginning with an account of integrity as involving a willingness to stand by ones most fundamental moral commitments, the author discusses three reasons for thinking that politics undermines integrity and is incompatible with morality. These are: the relationship between politics and utilitarian calculation; the possibility that the realm of politics is a separate realm of value; and the difficulty of reconciling the demands of different social roles. She concludes that, in the modern world, we all risk losing our integrity. To that extent, we are all politicians. Moreover, we have reason to be glad that politicians are not always morally good. Written with verve and clarity, this book provides students and general readers an accessible guide to the philosophical debates about the complex relationship between politics and morality in the contemporary world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745654452

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Politics of Toleration

Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Life

By: Susan Mendus

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Politics of Toleration

Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Life

By: Susan Mendus

Toleration is a core issue within contemporary political debates. The chapters in this work reflect on the importance of tolerance and the dangers of intolerance, both historically and in the present day.

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Edinburgh University Press

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Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy

By: Susan Mendus

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Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy

By: Susan Mendus

The debate between impartialists and their critics has dominated both moral and political philosophy during the 1990s. This book attempts to show both that the dispute between impartialists and their critics runs very deep, and that it can nonetheless be resolved.

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Women in Western Political Thought

By: Susan Moller Okin

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Women in Western Political Thought

By: Susan Moller Okin

In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical heritage, Okin argues, largely rests on the assumption of the natural inequality of the sexes. Women cannot be included as equals within political theory unless its deep-rooted assumptions about the traditional family, its sex roles, and its relation to the wider world of political society are challenged. So long as this attitude pervades our institutions and behavior, the formal equality women have won has no chance of becoming substantive.

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Princeton University Press

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0691158347

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Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

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Gender and Power in Britain 1640-1990

By: Susan Kingsley Kent

Gender and Power in Britain is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles, responsibilities and identities of men and women * how power relationships were established within various gender systems * how women and men reacted to the institutions, laws, customs, beliefs and practices that constituted their various worlds * class, racial and ethnic considerations * the role of empire in the development of British institutions and identities * the civil war * twentieth century suffrage * the world wars * industrialisation * Victorian morality.

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Routledge

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1134755120

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Stories to Light the Night

By: Susan Perrow

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Stories to Light the Night

By: Susan Perrow

More than 90 healing stories for telling during difficult times, written and collated by acclaimed therapeutic storyteller Susan Perrow, including 30 contributions from different cultures and countries worldwide. The book covers issues of grief, bereavement, separation, and loss. Chapters include: Loss of a Loved One; Loss of Place; Loss of Family Connection; Loss of a Pet; Loss of Health and Well-being; Other Kinds of Loss; Environmental Grief and Loss; Cycles of Life and Change; plus Patterns and Templates for Extension Activities (provided for some of the stories).

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Hawthorn Press

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1912480484

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The Embodiment of Reason

Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

By: Susan Meld Shell

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The Embodiment of Reason

Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community

By: Susan Meld Shell

Commentators on the work of Immanuel Kant have long held that his later "critical" writings are a radical rejection of his earlier, less celebrated efforts. In this pathbreaking book, Susan Shell demonstrates not only the developmental unity of Kant's individual writings, but also the unity of his work and life experience. Shell argues that the central animating issues of Kant's lifework concerned the perplexing relation of spirit to body. Through an exacting analysis of individual writings, Shell maps the philosophical contours of Kant's early intellectual struggles and their relation to his more mature thought. The paradox of mind in matter and the tensions it generates—between freedom and determinacy, independence and community, ideal and real—are shown to inform the whole of his work. Shell's fresh, penetrating analysis of the precritical works will surely catapult them to new prominence in Kant studies. Shell's critique goes further to consider the context of contemporary intellectual life. She explores the fascinating realm of Kant's sexual and medical idiosyncracies, linking them to the primary concerns of his critical philosophy. She develops a sure-to-be controversial treatment of the connection between Kant's philosophy and his chronic hypochondria, and illuminates previously unforeseen connections in a remarkable convergence of life and thought, with important theoretical and practical implications for modern times.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226752178

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Revolutions In Knowledge

Feminism In The Social Sciences

By: Sue Rosenberg Zalk,Janice Gordon-Kelter,Susan Zalk

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Revolutions In Knowledge

Feminism In The Social Sciences

By: Sue Rosenberg Zalk,Janice Gordon-Kelter,Susan Zalk

Recent feminist research has demonstrated how women have been neglected or misrepresented in virtually every discipline in the humanities and social sciences. The most exciting research growing out of this body of work is the attempt to see what kinds of changes are required in the assumptions, results, and even the methods of these disciplines to

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100031006X

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Are You Alone Wise?

The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era

By: Susan Schreiner

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Are You Alone Wise?

The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era

By: Susan Schreiner

The topic of certitude is much debated today. On one side, commentators such as Charles Krauthammer urge us to achieve "moral clarity." On the other, those like George Will contend that the greatest present threat to civilization is an excess of certitude. To address this uncomfortable debate, Susan Schreiner turns to the intellectuals of early modern Europe, a period when thought was still fluid and had not yet been reified into the form of rationality demanded by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Schreiner argues that Europe in the sixteenth century was preoccupied with concerns similar to ours; both the desire for certainty -- especially religious certainty -- and warnings against certainty permeated the earlier era. Digging beneath overt theological and philosophical problems, she tackles the underlying fears of the period as she addresses questions of salvation, authority, the rise of skepticism, the outbreak of religious violence, the discernment of spirits, and the ambiguous relationship between appearance and reality. In her examination of the history of theological polemics and debates (as well as other genres), Schreiner sheds light on the repeated evaluation of certainty and the recurring fear of deception. Among the texts she draws on are Montaigne's Essays, the mystical writings of Teresa of Avila, the works of Reformation fathers William of Occam, Luther, Thomas Muntzer, and Thomas More; and the dramas of Shakespeare. The result is not a book about theology, but rather about the way in which the concern with certitude determined the theology, polemics and literature of an age.

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Oxford University Press

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0199718385

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No Longer Patient

Feminist Ethics and Health Care

By: Susan Sherwin

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No Longer Patient

Feminist Ethics and Health Care

By: Susan Sherwin

This book attempts to deepen common understandings of what considerations are relevant in discussions of bioethics. It is meant to offer a clearer picture of what morally acceptable health care might look like. I argue that a feminist understanding of the social realities of our world is necessary if we are to recognize and develop an adequate analysis of the ethical issues that arise in the context of health care.-from Introduction.

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Temple University Press

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143990703X

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Justifying Toleration

Conceptual and Historical Perspectives

By: Susan Mendus

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Justifying Toleration

Conceptual and Historical Perspectives

By: Susan Mendus

This book traces the growth of philosophical justifications of toleration. The contributors discuss the grounds on which we may be required to be tolerant and the proper limits of toleration. They consider the historical and conceptual relation between toleration and scepticism and ask whether toleration is justified by considerations of autonomy or of prudence. The papers cover a range of perspectives on the subject, including Marxist and Socialist as well as liberal views. The editor's introduction prepares the ground by discussing the essential features of the subject and offers a lucid survey of the theories and arguments put forward in the book. The collection arises out of the Morrell Toleration Project at the University of York and all the papers were written as contributions to that project. The discussion will be of interest to specialists in philosophy, in political and social theory and in intellectual history.

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052134302X

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Mill's The Subjection of Women

Critical Essays

By: Maria H. Morales

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Mill's The Subjection of Women

Critical Essays

By: Maria H. Morales

John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is a landmark work both in the long history of women's struggles for political, legal, economic, and personal equality, and in the shorter history of rigorous intellectual analyses of women's subordination. One of the lasting legacies of Mill's The Subjection of Women is its careful argument for the need for justice at both the 'public' and the 'private' levels, which requires changes at the domestic level that are as radical in the 21st century as they were in the 19th. The essays collected in this critical edition represent a variety of interpretations both of the kind of feminism Mill represents and of the specific arguments he offers in The Subjection of Women including their lexical ordering and relative merit. Each selection is preceded by a brief and useful summary of the author's position, intended to assist readers encountering the material for the first time

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1461640148

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Politics of Toleration

Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Life

By: Susan Mendus

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Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Life

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Jesus Speaks to Faustina and You

By: Susan Tassone

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Jesus Speaks to Faustina and You

By: Susan Tassone

In her celebrated 700-page spiritual Diary, St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) tells of her many visions of Jesus and her conversations with Him. For years now, best-selling and award-winning author Susan Tassone has lived in the thrall of that spiritual classic, recently drawing forth from its rich mystical depths 365 meditations. Each meditation features Jesus' words to Faustina, to which Tassone has added a short original reflection and a prayer to help you hear and live by Jesus' words as if they had been spoken directly to you. From these pages, you'll discover the mercy, love, and compassion of the Lord that's available for you – day by day, each day of the year. In Jesus Speaks to Faustina and You, you'll learn: The amazing depths of Jesus' infinite, unfathomable love for you Ways to heal your family through the mystery of God's mercy How to develop stronger, deeper, more effective daily prayers How to increase your awareness of and response to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit How to overcome temptations – all of them! That purgatory is real, important ... and a blessing How you can use the Divine Mercy Chaplet for all your needs, including overcoming despair, converting sinners, appeasing God's anger, comforting the dying, and finding solace in the midst of suffering How to become a saint by learning from the Saint of Mercy, a woman who spent her life – day by day – learning about infinite love and the compassion of God, who is Divine Mercy And much more!

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Sophia Institute Press

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1644131021

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Day by Day with Saint Faustina

365 Reflections

By: Susan Tassone

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Day by Day with Saint Faustina

365 Reflections

By: Susan Tassone

These pages bring you a beautiful collection of spiritual treasures drawn from the celebrated Diary of Catholic visionary and mystic, St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938). Arranged by award-winning and best-selling Catholic author Susan Tassone into a handy, day-by-day form, these selections from Faustina's writings on Divine Mercy – revealed to her over the years in mystical conversations with Jesus himself – will help you do what Jesus told Faustina he wants you to do: trust completely in His mercy and show mercy to others. By means of these daily readings, you'll come to know – and be enriched by – St. Faustina's “Secrets of Sanctity,” awakening in you the qualities of Divine Mercy that Jesus himself infused into Faustina's soul: mercy (of course), but also trust, humility, and peaceful acceptance of God's will for you. Since her death just over 80 years ago, St. Faustina has been a source of strength and inspiration for millions of souls across the globe, including St. John Paul II who canonized her in the year 2000. Today, she can begin bringing you, too, the strength and inspiration you need. In Day by Day with Saint Faustina, you'll learn how to: Grow daily closer to Christ in the Eucharist. Use your suffering to help others, including the souls in purgatory. Grasp the striking details of Faustina's mystical experiences, prophecies, and revelations — and discover what they mean for you in particular. Soon you'll begin to experience in your soul the graces that were poured into hers. You'll find yourself becoming, like Faustina, an Apostle of Mercy, teaching others – by word and example – about the infinite love and compassion of God, who is Divine Mercy.

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1622826531

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LETTERS OF SUSAN HALE

By: Susan 1833-1910 Hale

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LETTERS OF SUSAN HALE

By: Susan 1833-1910 Hale

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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