Kierkegaard's Analysis of Radical Evil

Kierkegaard's Analysis of Radical Evil
Author: David A. Roberts
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1847143709

For thousands of years philosophers and theologians have grappled with the problem of evil. Traditionally, evil has been seen as a weakness of sorts: the evil person is either ignorant, or weak-willed. But in the most horrifying acts of evil, the perpetrators are resolute, deliberate, and well aware of the pain they are causing. Here David Roberts painstakingly details the matrix of issues that evolved into Kierkegaard's own solution. Kierkegaard's psychological understanding of evil is that it arises out of despair - a despair that can become so vehement and ferocious that it lashes out at existence itself. Roberts shows how the despairing self can become strengthened and intensified through a conscious and free choice against the Good. This type of radical evil is neither ignorant nor weak.

Volume 15, Tome III: Kierkegaard's Concepts

Volume 15, Tome III: Kierkegaard's Concepts
Author: Dr Jon Stewart
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-06-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472434323

Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kierkegaard’s contributions to philosophy, theology, the social sciences, literature and aesthetics, thereby making this volume an ideal reference work for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines.

Kierkegaard's Either/Or

Kierkegaard's Either/Or
Author: Ryan S. Kemp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 131651255X

This collection of essays strikes new ground in our understanding of Kierkegaard's Either/Or and his authorship as a whole.

Quality Service Management

Quality Service Management
Author: John Maleyeff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 100058772X

Providing clear guidance for anyone servicing internal or external customers, this book offers a framework for analyzing and managing quality using a comprehensive closed-loop approach. This book cuts through the complexities of the mantra ‘better, cheaper, faster’ (BCF) and offers procedures for the evaluation of customer needs, the determination of performance metrics, and the design of effective customer satisfaction surveys. It details basic statistical techniques and packages the framework, procedures, and methods into a management construct that includes external quality certification systems and internal performance management systems. Importantly, the book also describes how these systems can be implemented in a virtual workplace. This quality management book will be essential to service-oriented firms (financial, government, healthcare, hospitality, etc.), as well as any firm with internal customer service processes such as human resource management, purchasing, and accounting. Professionals at all levels, corporate trainers, and students will welcome this book’s common set of principles and tools, accompanied by many case studies that illustrate how they are applied in various environments.

Intellectual Schizophrenia

Intellectual Schizophrenia
Author: R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher: Chalcedon Foundation
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2009-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1879998297

The title of this book is particularly significant in that Dr. Rushdoony was able to identify the basic contradiction that pervades a secular society that rejects God's sovereignty by still needs law and order, justice, science, and meaning to life. Secular man wants to use the thinks of creation while denying their creator. As Dr. Rushdoony writes, 'there is no law, no society, no justice, no structure, no design, no meaning apart from God.' And so, modern man has become schizophrenic. He wants to assert his autonomy while rejecting the divine order that gives meaning to life. To the humanist, the aim of living is something he calls the 'good life.' For the nihilist, it is violence and death. Dr. Rushdoony saw cultural schizophrenia as a split between thought and feeling, a withdrawal from the reality of God and a flight into fantasies of world government achieved through an unattainable unity. Utopians are undeniably schizophrenic. They want a heaven on earth, which can only be achieved by coercion and enslavement. But perhaps what they really want, as depraved human beings, is coercion and enslavement, and use utopian idealism to deceive and entrap the gullible. Nor is it by accident that the government schools now lavish so much time on death education, which has been marbleized throughout the curriculum. As Dr. Rushdoony writes: 'For man to turn his back on God, therefore, is to turn towards death.' And this is exactly what the government schools have done. Add to this, multiculturalism, transcendental meditation, sensitivity training, explicit sex education, drug education, evolution, behavioral psychology, humanism, whole language, and other such programs, and you get a curriculum that is so profoundly anti-Christian that one wonders how any Christian parent or minister can condone putting a Christian child in a government school from the forward by Samuel L. Blumenfeld

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Kierkegaard's Existential Approach

Kierkegaard's Existential Approach
Author: Arne Grøn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110493012

Recently there has been a growing interest not only in existentialism, but also in existential questions, as well as key figures in existential thinking. Yet despite this renewed interest, a systematic reconsideration of Kierkegaard’s existential approach is missing. This anthology is the first in a series of three that will attempt to fill this lacuna. The 13 chapters of the first anthology deal with various aspects of Kierkegaard's existential approach. Its reception will be examined in the works of influential philsophers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, and Habermas, as well as in lesser known philosophers from the interwar period, such as Jean Wahl, Lev Shestov, and Benjamin Fondane. Other chapters reconsider central notions, such as "anxiety", "existence", "imagination", and "despair". Finally, some chapters deal with Kierkegaard's relevance for central issues in contemporary philosophy, including "naturalism", "self-constitution", and "bioethics". This book is of relevance not only to researchers working in Kierkegaard Studies, but to anyone with an interest in existentialism and existential thinking.

Absolute Y: the Last Man Vol. 3

Absolute Y: the Last Man Vol. 3
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher: Vertigo
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-07-04
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781401271008

Created by the acclaimed team of writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, the Eisner Award-winning saga of Y: THE LAST MAN is presented here in a stunning new Absolute Edition. In 2002, the world changes forever. Every man, every boy, every mammal with a Y chromosome everywhere on Earth suddenly collapses and dies. The gears of society grind to a halt. In the aftermath, a world of women is left to piece together the wreckage and keep civilization from collapsing completely. The "gendercide," however, is not absolute--a single man named Yorick Brown and his pet monkey are spared. So begins an extraordinary journey, as the world's two remaining males set out to solve the mystery of the sex-specific plague and preserve the future of mankind. But how can one man save an entire species when his heart belongs to only one woman--and she's on the other side of the globe? This final volume collects issues #41-60 of the groundbreaking VERTIGO series and includes the complete script by Vaughan and pencilled pages by guest artist Goran Sudzuka for issue #53.