The Form of the Personal: The self as agent

The Form of the Personal: The self as agent
Author: John Macmurray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1957
Genre: Act (Philosophy)
ISBN:

This volume contains the Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Glasgow during the Spring term of 1953.

Justice and Morality

Justice and Morality
Author: Amanda Russell Beattie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2016-04-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317109813

Bridging the contending theories of natural law and international relations, this book proposes a 'relational ontology' as the basis for rethinking our approach to international politics. Amanda Beattie challenges both the conventional interpretation of natural law as necessarily and intractably theological, and the dominant conception of international relations as structurally distinct from the ends of human good, in order to recover the centrality of other-directed agency to the promotion of human development. Offering an important contribution to the study of international political thought, the book contains a number of challenging and controversial ideas which should provoke constructive debate within international relations theory, political theory, and philosophical ethics.

Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur
Author: Richard Kearney
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1446233863

Paul Ricoeur's work is of seminal importance to the development of hermeneutics, phenomenology and ideology critique in the human sciences. This major volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of this extraordinary body of work. Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself, the book offers a fascinating tour of his work ranging across topics such as the hermeneutics of action, narrative force, the other and deconstruction while discussing his work in the context of such contemporary figures as including Heidegger, L[ac]evinas, Arendt and Gadamer. Paul Ricoeur is also published as Volume 21 Issue 5/6 of Philosophy and Social Criticism.

John Macmurray's Religious Philosophy

John Macmurray's Religious Philosophy
Author: Esther McIntosh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317110625

Recent dissatisfaction with individualism and the problems of religious pluralism make this an opportune time to reassess the way in which we define ourselves and conduct our relationships with others. The philosophical writings of John Macmurray are a useful resource for performing this examination, and recent interest in Macmurray's work has been growing steadily. A full-scale critical examination of Macmurray's religious philosophy has not been published and this work fills this gap, sharing his insistence that we define ourselves through action and through person-to-person relationships, while critiquing his account of the ensuing political and religious issues. The key themes in this work are the concept of the person and the ethics of personal relations.

Subject to Change

Subject to Change
Author: Polly Young-Eisendrath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135844119

What can psychotherapy and psychoanalysis teach us about turning human misery into insight and personal freedom? Polly Young-Eisendrath offers a response that opens new vistas in our understanding of ourselves within the complexity of a postmodern world. Subject to Change is a collection of essays spanning a twenty-year period of theorising and practice of a highly regarded senior Jungian analyst. The diverse ideas and perspectives discussed in the essays deal with the big issues surrounding how Jungian analysts and psychoanalysts understand their profession and what it teaches us about our subject lives. The book is divided into four clear and informative sections: * Subjectivity and uncertainty * Gender and desire * Transference and transformation * Transcendence and subjectivity. The classic essays presented in this book will have significant appeal to all those concerned with Jungian analysis, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, gender development, and the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality.

Good News

Good News
Author: Clifford G. Christians
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1993
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0195084322

Clearly and accessibly written, with numerous real-life examples and a solid basis in ethical theory, Good News will be of interest to journalist, editors, and professionals in media management, as well as to professors and students of media ethics, political science, reporting, and media law.

Communicology

Communicology
Author: Isaac E. Catt
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2010
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 0838641474

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God as Love

God as Love
Author: Johannes M. Oravecz
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2014-04-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802868932

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian religious intellectuals devoted a great deal of attention to the concept of agape, or Divine Love, arguing that the Christian church is a reflection of the triune, self-sacrificing God and his love for all of creation. On account of their deliberations, these intellectuals played a key role in mediating between the Orthodox Church and modern society. Their quest for dialogue between the 'mystery of the sacred' and the 'ordinary of everyday life' remains relevant for Western societies today. In God as Love Johannes Oravecz presents a comprehensive summation of twenty-five prominent Russian religious thinkers and their thought on the concept of agape, showing in detail how they broke new ground in their various affirmations of the truth that God is love. No other book in any language treats this topic with such breadth and depth.

Life in the Spirit

Life in the Spirit
Author: Andréa Snavely
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1498270638

What would the church look like if Christians saw their lives as constituted by the Spirit's presence to live as Jesus lived? In a time when being "led by the Spirit" is defined more by achieving the "American Dream" than by Jesus's life, answering this question rightly seems all the more critical for the church to survive in a culture increasingly hostile to Christianity. Building upon the work of post-Constantinians John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas and upon the Trinitarian Spirit-Christology of Leopoldo Sanchez, this account of the Christian life provides a framework for seeing one's Christian life as one transformed by the Spirit to live in the resurrection reality of Jesus's sonship with the Father in the Spirit. In the process, one will discover that, for Jesus, being led by the Spirit meant trusting his Father to the point of death on a cross, trusting God to resurrect him even if he did not save him. Should it mean the same for Christians today? If so, this would require the church to reimagine its ministries for the Spirit to work repentance and faith rather than simple agreement. For Christians living in the Spirit, their lives might look very different.