Human Embrace

Human Embrace
Author: Ronald L. Hall
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780271043098

Starting from S&øren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a philosophy of love and marriage the key to understanding how humans may achieve happiness in the acceptance of their humanity. All three thinkers follow a &"logic of paradox&" in showing how success in the human quest to be human depends crucially on the struggle humans experience with the ever-present opportunities to pursue alternative paths. What Kierkegaard called &"living existentially&" can be achieved only after confronting and refusing the possibilities of living in &"aesthetic,&" &"ethical,&" or even &"religious&" denial of one's true humanity. By creating this dialogue between the nineteenth-century Danish thinker and two eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Hall reveals the continuing relevance of Kierkegaard's thought to our own age and its cogency as an interpretation of the human predicament.

The Human Embrace

The Human Embrace
Author: Ronald L. Hall
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780271019536

Starting from S&øren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a philosophy of love and marriage the key to understanding how humans may achieve happiness in the acceptance of their humanity. All three thinkers follow a &"logic of paradox&" in showing how success in the human quest to be human depends crucially on the struggle humans experience with the ever-present opportunities to pursue alternative paths. What Kierkegaard called &"living existentially&" can be achieved only after confronting and refusing the possibilities of living in &"aesthetic,&" &"ethical,&" or even &"religious&" denial of one's true humanity. By creating this dialogue between the nineteenth-century Danish thinker and two eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Hall reveals the continuing relevance of Kierkegaard's thought to our own age and its cogency as an interpretation of the human predicament.

Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form

Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Alice James Books
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1938584589

Comic, elegaic, and always formally intricate, using political allegory and painterly landscape, philosophic story and dramatic monologue, these poems describe a moment when something marvelous and unforeseen alters the course of a single day, a year, or an entire life.

The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Better Angels of Our Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0143122010

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

AI for Humanity

AI for Humanity
Author: Andeed Ma
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1394180322

Capture the value of cutting-edge AI while mitigating its most salient risks AI For Humanity: Building a Sustainable AI for the Future delivers an incisive and timely discussion of how to design, build, and implement cutting-edge AI in for-profit firms and other organizations in a responsible, sustainable, and ethical way. The book walks you through the three pillars of human-focused AI development—governance, technology, and commercialization—and dives deep into each one, showing you how to create AI products and services that better humanity and advance universally held values. You'll find methodologies and frameworks that mitigate against some of the most profound and unsettling risks of unchecked artificial intelligence development, and roadmaps to help you avoid the numerous pitfalls and traps awaiting unsuspecting companies, managers, and executives. You'll also discover: Real-world case studies, from companies including SAP, Huawei, and Tencent, demonstrating the actual dilemmas and questions firms face when developing and implementing this extraordinary tech Actionable commitments you can make to help ensure you and your company avoid the ethical and reputational risks associated with AI Strategies for AI product and service development consistent with sustainable growth Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders with a stake in responsible artificial intelligence design, development, and implementation, AI For Humanity will also interest regulators, academics, thought leaders, and policy makers doing their best to capture AI's substantial potential value while mitigating its most serious risks.

Creation and Humanity

Creation and Humanity
Author: Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467443093

The third installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time This third volume of Veli-Matti Karkkainen’s ambitious five volume theology project develops a Christian theology of creation and humanity (theological anthropology) in dialogue with the Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in all its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths -- Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. In constructing his theology of creation and humanity, Karkkainen uniquely engages the natural sciences, including physical, cosmological, and neuroscientific theories. He devotes particular attention to the topics of divine action in a world subjected to scientific study, environmental pollution, human flourishing, and the theological implications of evolutionary theory -- with regard to both cosmos and humanity.

Person, Personhood, and the Humanity of Christ

Person, Personhood, and the Humanity of Christ
Author: Hakbong Kim
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725285312

The quest for an understanding of humanness has been significant. As the ways in which we recognize and define our human being have significant impact, wide-ranging discussions and questions about the human have taken place, with significant theoretical and practical implications. In Person, Personhood, and the Humanity of Christ, Hakbong Kim explores Thomas F. Torrance's critiques of the dualist and individualistic views concerning human beings in the history of philosophy and theology. This book sheds important light on Torrance's understanding of humans as persons in relation, the trinitarian personhood as the ontological foundation for human personhood, and the humanity of Christ as key to the personalization necessary for a new moral, ethical, and social life. This presents a Christocentric anthropology and ethics, which focuses on Christ's ongoing reconciling and humanizing ministry for us.

Nietzsche's Culture of Humanity

Nietzsche's Culture of Humanity
Author: Jeffrey Church
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2015-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107120268

This book argues that Nietzsche is a meritocratic thinker, not, as many have argued, an aristocrat or a democrat.

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity
Author: Peter Augustine Lawler
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0739186507

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in our time; robotization and the possibility of being ruled by morally challenged robots; organ markets; the degradation of liberal education by obsessive techno-enthusiasm; biotechnology and biological determinism; the birth dearth and the inevitable erosion of our entitlements; the possibility that our techno-domination is basically an unfolding of the Lockean logic of our foundation; and the future of the free exercise of religion in an aggressively libertarian time. All in all, this book should provoke widespread discussion about the relationship between scientific/technological progress and the one true moral/spiritual progress that takes place over the course of every particular human life.