Author: Abel BoyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Dictionnaire royal françois-anglois et anglois-françois, en abrégé, par M. A. Boyer. Avec des accents pour faciliter aux étrangers la prononciation de la Langue Anglaise. Douzième édition soigneusement corrigée, & enrichie de nouvelles augmentations
Author: Abel BoyerThe Rejection of Consequentialism
Author: Samuel SchefflerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191040169
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
In contemporary philosophy, substantive moral theories are typically classified as either consequentialist or deontological. Standard consequentialist theories insist, roughly, that agents must always act so as to produce the best available outcomes overall. Standard deontological theories, by contrast, maintain that there are some circumstances where one is permitted but not required to produce the best overall results, and still other circumstances in which one is positively forbidden to do so. Classical utilitarianism is the most familiar consequentialist view, but it is widely regarded as an inadequate account of morality. Although Professor Scheffler agrees with this assessment, he also believes that consequentialism seems initially plausible, and that there is a persistent air of paradox surrounding typical deontological views. In this book, therefore, he undertakes to reconsider the rejection of consequentialism. He argues that it is possible to provide a rationale for the view that agents need not always produce the best possible overall outcomes, and this motivates one departure from consequentialism; but he shows that it is surprisingly difficult to provide a satisfactory rationale for the view that there are times when agents must not produce the best possible overall outcomes. He goes on to argue for a hitherto neglected type of moral conception, according to which agents are always permitted, but not always required, to produce the best outcomes.
Chu Hsi
Author: Wing-tsit ChanPublisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622013476
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Manila Galleon
Author: William Lytle SchurzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Mission to China
Author: Mary LavenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780571225187
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
An epic history of the clashes of cultures between Jesuit missionaries in China.
Curious Land
Author: D. E. MungelloPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824812195
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
How the Jesuit accomodation to internal events in China laid the foundation for modern study of China in the West. First published as Studia Leibnitiana, Supplementa 25 (1985) by Fritz Steiner Verlag. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
Author: Bryan W. Van NordenPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603846050
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word. It provides the beginner with an accurate, sophisticated, yet accessible account, and offers new insights and challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge. Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable and perhaps is most important, it ranges over of rich set of competing options. It also, with admirable self-consciousness, presents a number of daring attempts to relate those options to philosophical figures and movements from the West. I recommend it very highly.--Lee H. Yearley, Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford University
Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy
Author: Zhang DainianPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300092105
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
An introduction to Chinese philosophy and a reference tool for sinologists. Comments by important Chinese thinkers are arranged around 64 key concepts to illustrate their meaning and use through 25 centuries of Chinese philosophy. The book includes comments on each section by the translator.
Sojourners in a Strange Land
Author: Florence C. HsiaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226355616
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China.
A Question of Rites
Author: J. S. CumminsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
There were wide repercussions: politics, national and ecclesiastical, even the history of science were involved. Professor Cummins retells the story from a deliberately 'dissident' viewpoint. Till now the account has been largely that of the Jesuits; his focus is the Spanish Dominican, Domingo Navarrete (1618-86), who emerged as the spokesman for the friars' cause. Not a scholar or scientist of the calibre of Matteo Ricci or other Jesuit 'geometers' in Peking, Navarrete nonetheless fully merits attention as a perceptive and frank observer of a passionate and complex scene. His major work, the Tratados, was widely read, admired by the likes of Quesnay and Locke, and served as a key source of European knowledge about China. The first chapters of the present book set out the background: the rise of the Dominicans and the Jesuits, their differing philosophies, and their conflicts in Europe and America.
