The Grounds of Moral Judgement

The Grounds of Moral Judgement
Author: Geoffrey Russell Grice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1967-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521051495

This 1967 book aims to develop an ethical theory which remedies the defects of Utilitarianism while recognising the truths upon which Utilitarians have insisted.

Science Fiction and Psychology

Science Fiction and Psychology
Author: Gavin Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789620600

This book offers an in-depth exploration of science fiction literature's varied use of psychological discourses, beginning at the birth of modern psychology in the late nineteenth century and condluding wtith the ascendance of neuroscience in the late twnetieth century.

Chasing Butterflies

Chasing Butterflies
Author: Vanessa Guignery
Publisher: Editions Publibook
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011
Genre: New Zealand fiction
ISBN: 2748363906

In 1951, Janet Frame published her first book The Lagoon and Other Stories, a collection which would win the most prestigious national literary award in New Zealand and launch her fascinating career. The essays collected in this volume examine the motifs at work in Frame’s short stories and unravel a unique literary world which revisits the realist tradition and grants prose a poetic dimension. As much a reflexion about language, voice, modes of writing and narrative strategies as an analysis of Frame’s recurrent concerns with identity, childhood, relationships between mothers and daughters, secrecy, marginality, community or death, Chasing Butterflies is a great tribute to one of the most famous New Zealand writers.

The Moral Judgement of Butterflies

The Moral Judgement of Butterflies
Author: K. ELTINAE
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2022-06-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781913606879

The Moral Judgement of Butterflies is the award winning debut poetry collection by K.Eltinaé. These poignant poems serve as a survival manifesto for physical & psychological trauma touching upon over twenty years of curated soul work on the immigrant experience. These poems move both towards and away from home recounting an ever-present exile in the wake of displacement delivered with universal empathy, the narrator's hope emanates even from the nadir of his layered struggles living as an African immigrant in Europe.

The Camel and the Butterfly

The Camel and the Butterfly
Author: Michael Whitworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781739801502

All Thomas Mirren wants is a simple life. He's an old man now, after all. On his ninetieth birthday, while selling poppies, Thomas interrupts two shoplifters. To get back at him, they start a rumour that the former soldier had never served in the army. Just an old man pretending to be a hero. But who would believe such a thing? Ian Rogers is a journalist. Things are quiet in the office, but then one day, he's handed a story: something about a military imposter. Someone is claiming that Thomas Mirren is a fraud. And it seems there's no record of the old soldier either. Could there be something to it? In a world where perception is reality, does the truth even matter anymore? Does the past matter? Well, it matters to Thomas Mirren, and it looks like his past is about to catch up with him.

The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies

The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies
Author: Ben Masters
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1959030892

"A book with wings."—Ali Smith A deeply felt and moving memoir about how butterflies become a vital connection between a son and his dying father. The Flitting: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies is a masterful and touching memoir blending natural history, pop culture, and literary biography—delivering a richly layered and nuanced portrait of a son’s attempt, after years of stubborn resistance, to take on his dying father’s love of the natural world. With his father unable to leave the house and follow the butterfly cycle for the first time since he was a child, Masters endeavors to become his connection to the outdoors and his treasured butterflies, reporting back with stories of beloved species—Purple Emperors, Lulworth Skippers, Wood Whites and Silver-studded Blues—and with stories of the woods and meadows that are their habitats and once were his. Structured around a series of exchanges and remembrances, butterflies become a way of talking about masculinity, memory, generational differences, and ultimately loss and continuation. Masters takes readers on an unlikely journey where Luther Vandross and The Sopranos rub shoulders with the likes of Angela Carter and Virginia Woolf on butterflies and gender; the metamorphoses of Prince; Zadie Smith on Joni Mitchell and how sensibilities evolve; and the lives and works of Vladimir Nabokov and other literary lepidopterists. In this beautiful debut memoir, Ben Masters offers an intensely authentic, unforgettable portrait of a father and son sharing passions, lessons, and regrets before they run out of time.

Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

Can't We Make Moral Judgements?
Author: Mary Midgley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 147429801X

How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the ever popular stance in society that we should not make moral judgements on others. Guiding the reader through the diverse approaches to this complex subject, she interrogates our strong beliefs about such things as the value of freedom that underlie our scepticism about making moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we can make these judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes not only to the law and its institutions but also to events that occur in our daily lives, and suggests that mistrust of moral judgements may be making life even harder for us than it would be otherwise. The texts and philosophers discussed range from Nietzsche and Sartre to P.D. James and the Bhagavad Gita. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author.

Only God Can Make a Butterfly

Only God Can Make a Butterfly
Author: M. D. David J. Delnostro
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1613795025

God's ultimate plan for His people is one of transformation. All of us are born in God's image, but His ultimate desire is for us to be transformed into His likeness. For this metamorphosis to occur, we must stop competing with God to be the master of our lives. Just as a butterfly changes from a larval caterpillar, all human beings are to be transformed into their mature form, a person possessing the nature and character of Jesus. Butterfly people see the world from God's perspective and experience more joy and peace in life. Caterpillars are left behind to see the world from man's perspective and suffer from immature, pathological thinking, dysfunctional relationships, and self-serving religions and governments. God designed our world for Christ-centered butterflies that can live in the light of His wisdom and truth, not caterpillars that stumble through life and remain lost in the darkness of their self-centered world. In Only God Can Make A Butterfly, David Delnostro, M.D. walks you through the psychological, interpersonal, political and medical advantages of soaring through life as a butterfly and the pathological consequences of crawling through life as a caterpillar. David J. Delnostro, M.D. is a graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine. He began his medical career in 1980 in Savannah, Georgia as an emergency room physician at Candler Hospital. For the past twenty-six years, he has practiced family medicine and currently is a member of Southcoast Medical Group in Savannah. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest of six children. Although he was raised by a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, he never practiced either religion. At age forty, he began his life-changing relationship with Jesus. Currently, he serves as a deacon and Divorce Recovery leader at Savannah Christian Church.