Contrary Creatures

Author : James Weinberg
Publisher : Page Street Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781624145803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contrary Creatures written by James Weinberg and published by Page Street Kids. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrantly illustrated nonfiction picture book goes beyond expected animal opposite pairings by comparing and contrasting behaviors like migration habits (or lack thereof) and sleeping schedules. Featuring snow monkeys, sea dragons, peacocks, and more, this is an eye-catching and thought-provoking concept book. It will appeal to nature-loving readers, making them think about opposites in new ways. “Some animals live only in stories and legends, while others are real but seem make-believe.”

Author : Boethius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae written by Boethius and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191068373
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fellow Creatures written by Christine M. Korsgaard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to Kant's argument for the value of humanity to show that rationality commits us to claiming the standing of ends-in-ourselves, in two senses. Kant argued that as autonomous beings, we claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we claim the standing to make laws for ourselves and each other. Korsgaard argues that as beings who have a good, we also claim to be ends-in-ourselves when we take the things that are good for us to be good absolutely and so worthy of pursuit. The first claim commits us to joining with other autonomous beings in relations of moral reciprocity. The second claim commits us to treating the good of every sentient creature as something of absolute importance. Korsgaard argues that human beings are not more important than the other animals, that our moral nature does not make us superior to the other animals, and that our unique capacities do not make us better off than the other animals. She criticizes the "marginal cases" argument and advances a new view of moral standing as attaching to the atemporal subjects of lives. She criticizes Kant's own view that our duties to animals are indirect, and offers a non-utilitarian account of the relation between pleasure and the good. She also addresses a number of directly practical questions: whether we have the right to eat animals, experiment on them, make them work for us and fight in our wars, and keep them as pets; and how to understand the wrong that we do when we cause a species to go extinct.

Author : Elhanan Winchester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Restoration written by Elhanan Winchester and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anicius Manlius T.S. Boethius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the metres of Boethius, with tr. and notes; by S. Fox written by Anicius Manlius T.S. Boethius and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Psychology Pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Elizabeth Funke (in religion Sister Odilia Funke)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meister Eckehart written by Mary Elizabeth Funke (in religion Sister Odilia Funke) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Moderessi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514410966
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contrary to Being written by Marc Moderessi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am trying to prove not only my scientific but philosophical theory, which is nothing anyone has ever read or heard. But it is difficult to present to the public for them to understand and accept considering English not being my native tongue. It is written in simplest possible English, avoiding difficult, complex, complicated, and highly sophisticated phrases, syntax, and sentences. One needs to read the entire book, even few times to get the full grip of the meanings. I have few poems on the subjects I intend to send along with my manuscript to fit among pages to help to explain the subject matter in question.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christian treasury (and missionary review). written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Svein Olaf Thorbjørnsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030221334
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Happens to People in a Competitive Society written by Svein Olaf Thorbjørnsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author Svein Olaf Thorbjørnsen probes the question: What is at stake for human beings in a society dominated by competition, particularly economic competition? Is competition endemic to human nature? Does it preserve the dignity and intrinsic value of the human being? Does it secure better living conditions? In a way, the answer to these queries is a simple “yes.” It can allow for superior satisfaction of fundamental needs; legitimate self-love and self-realization; and encourage positive feelings upon mastering a skill. At the same time, however, competition can also contribute to a strong materialistic self-interest and support classicism, social ranking, and elitism: other human beings become only means to a personal success, thus jeopardizing fellowship and collaboration. In a hyper-competitive environment, some of the same positive human values mentioned above—self-love, self-realisation, individuality, and freedom—can be viewed to pose a threat to the realisation of one’s potential and to one’s true humanity. These competing, contradictory aspects of competition are presented and discussed from perspectives across varying disciplines, from social anthropology and economics to history, ethics, philosophy and theology.