Author: Wilkie Au
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809143726
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Integrating the wisdom of Christian tradition and psychological findings on effective decision-making, this book presents a view of Christian discernment that honors the body-spirit unity of the person and the broad and mysterious ways we can be led by the spirit of God in our life-choices. Going beyond discernment skills and concrete practices, this book presents a coherent theoretical understanding of discernment that grounds the many spiritual practices used by Christians today. By providing a broad and inclusive understanding of the multiple ways God can provide guidance to individuals, this book helps individuals to honor the unique and idiosyncratic way that they receive divine guidance, as well as provides guidelines that guard against possible self-deception and personal blind-spots. While including anecdotal accounts and practical elements of Christian discernment, this book provides a conceptual understanding of discernment that will be helpful for those training to be professional ministers, pastors, priests, religious counselors, and spiritual directors. It is unique in applying Christian tradition and contemporary psychological insights to the process of discernment. +
Author: Dawn Marie Carpintero
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535301237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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One thought.... One desire.... One blindfold kiss.... Jared Morris, a thirty-six-year-old billionaire, has everything he ever wanted - except true love. When he finally examines his past, he realizes that one girl he met in high school holds the key to his future happiness. After twenty years apart, he hopes that he can reconnect with the beautiful classmate whose smile made him feel as if all of his dreams were possible. Patty Dimes, a nurse who has suffered at the hands of her former boyfriend, has a fulfilling career and is comfortable living alone. However, she feels like something vital is missing in her life. Suddenly, she begins to receive texts from a mystery man who claims to know her and says he wants to meet face-to-face to see if their attraction in the past was meant to be a forever love. Wondering if her ex is behind the mysterious texts, Patty must decide if she is brave enough to take a chance and find out whether or not true love awaits. While dealing with family, friends, and continual drama from outside sources, Jared and Patty embark on a search to fulfill all of their wishful desires. Many leaps of faith will be required in order to reach their goal of living happily ever after. Will Jared's determination be enough to convince Patty to trust him and to allow herself to love him? Or will her past, their present, and all of the years gone by prevent her from surrendering to desire and her one, true love?
Author: Alex Gregory
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019884817X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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What is it to want something? Or, as philosophers might ask, what is a desire?The idea that we explain and evaluate actions with essential reference to what people want is compelling, as it speaks to common-sense ideas that our wants lie at the heart of our decision-making. Yet our wants seem to have a competitor: our beliefs about what we ought to do. Such normative beliefsalone may often suffice to explain our actions. To try and resolve this tension, this book defends "desire as belief", the view that desires are just a special subset of our normative beliefs. This view entitles us to accept orthodox models of human motivation and rationality that explain thosethings with reference to desire, while also making room for our normative beliefs to play a role in those domains. This view also tells us to diverge from the orthodox view on which desires themselves can never be right or wrong. Rather, according to desire-as-belief, our desires can themselves beassessed for their accuracy, and they are wrong when they misrepresent normative features of the world. Hume says that it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of your finger, but he is wrong: it is foolish to prefer the destruction of the wholeworld to the scratching of your finger, precisely because this preference misrepresents the relative worth of these things. This book mounts an engaging and comprehensive defence of these ideas.
Author: Rae Langton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191564265
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Rae Langton here draws together her ground-breaking work on pornography and objectification. On pornography she argues from uncontroversial liberal premises to the controversial feminist conclusions that pornography subordinates and silences women, and that women have rights against pornography. On objectification she begins with the traditional idea that objectification involves treating a person as a thing, but then shows that it is through a kind of self-fulfilling projection of beliefs and perceptions of women as subordinate that women are made subordinate and treated as things. These controversial essays in feminist philosophy will be stimulating reading for anyone interested in the status of women in society.
Author: Brian Leiter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199203925
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Introduction / Brian Leiter -- Ancient philosophy for the Twenty-First Century / Julia Annas -- Philosophy and history in the history of modern philosophy / Don Garrett -- The hermeneutics of suspicion: recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud / Brian Leiter -- Past the linguistic turn? / Timothy Williamson -- The mind-body problem at century's turn / Jaegwon Kim -- The representational character of experience / David J. Chalmers -- The need for social epistemology / Alvin I. Goldman -- The ends of the sciences / Philip Kitcher -- From causation to explanation and back / Nancy Cartwright -- ) ( 11 [2] 505 0 Normative ethics: back to the future / Thomas Hurka -- Toward an ethics that inhabits the world / Peter Railton -- Projection and objectification / Rae Langton -- Existentialism, quietism, and the role of philosophy / Philip Pettit. ).
Author: Brian P. McLaughlin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061231
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective.
Author: Bhatnagar Sankt Kumar
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 8122310230
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Sermons given by Lord Buddha called DHAMMAPADA presented in the form of English poetry.Lord Buddha relinquished his entire kingdom in search of nirvana, which is the ultimate path to get deliverance from this difficult cycle of birth and death. Human beings yearn for pleasure (sukha), but they get suffering and grief (dukha) due to their ego (ahankar) and incessant yearning for materialistic things (trishna). According to Lord Buddha, the only way to achieve deliverance from this tedious process of rebirth is to abandon all desires and attachments and resort to meditation. This is the only way to be absolved of the cycle of life and death and achieve eternal bliss and happiness. Dhammapada entails the teachings of Lord Buddha which were given in Varanasi in India after he attained enlightenment. These teachings were originally written in Pali language and were translated into various languages later. The Teachings of Buddha is a collection of the same 423 sermons delivered by Lord Buddha. The sermons have been translated into English poetry and presented in 26 chapters based on the different attributes of man.
Author: Timo Airaksinen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004410309
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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In Vagaries of Desire, Timo Airaksinen develops a new philosophical account of desire understood as mental state that focuses on a desirable possible world. Literary and philosophical themes, including sexuality, are discussed in terms of their metaphoric and metonymic features.
Author: Donald MacKay
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665557176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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I've made all my choices freely in this life, but how I wish they were all perfect without errors. Only in the last fifteen years can I say I have chosen, not perfectly mind you, but wisely. All my choices are now founded upon reason and common sense and logic and a belief in an actual Creator, which is a philosophy called Deism. Unlike revealed religious beliefs that seek to isolate mankind and to sever the tie that binds one human to another, Deism never makes demands. Deists are instead individuals who choose to stand alone in their trust in the Creator. Paradise or Heaven, should there be such places, are reserved for religious believers. The rest of humanity? Deism seeks to unite mankind with a universal truth that all can accept not founded on a book called holy created by mankind to control mankind. Deism looks to the Cosmos, Nature, and the endlessness of the night's sky, each as a book to help guide mankind. Deism does not require a promise or a reward of Heaven or Paradise as an incentive to be a good and loving person; it is simply the right thing to do. We all shall see truth if there is anything to see in the by and by. Perhaps, we will simply go to a deep, dreamless sleep and know nothing more as a few souls believe? I really don't know what happens at the last moment; even so, I will maintain my trust in the Creator to the very end. I shall hold to reason and common sense until my time here is ended.
Author: Dayanara Blue Star
Publisher: Dayanara Blue Star
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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There are several questions that are always on the mind of people. Some may wonder if there is something, in this or another world, so influential that just by making or mentioning its name would cause cold feelings. Is it possible that your thoughts can be factual that it is capable of dissolving ice and causing a flame to light up, or cause enormous demolitions or magnificent creations? Is there a border, that if you cross, you will become unreachable, and you can easily access everything in the world? Does a magical door exist in this life that can give answers to all the mysteries of this world? If this magical door does exist, is it going to give you the answers as expected, or would the answers be displeasing and a disappointment? Would it make you want to quest for more knowledge? Now, having discovered a virtually new world, would you desire to return to the former world or continue in your new world? Do you share the public opinion about life or do you have the quest to discover an entirely new idea about the world? What quest are you embarking on? Is it to be truly part of a new world or remain in the old one? With all these questions in mind, let us show you that there exists an entirely new world different from the norm. Let's get started!
