For The Sake Of Humanity

Author : Shaun Usher
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1838856161
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of Note written by Shaun Usher and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.

Author : Lina Steiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442696095
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Humanity's Sake written by Lina Steiner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-11-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Humanity's Sake is the first study in English to trace the genealogy of the classic Russian novel, from Pushkin to Tolstoy to Dostoevsky. Lina Steiner demonstrates how these writers' shared concern for individual and national education played a major role in forging a Russian cultural identity. For Humanity's Sake highlights the role of the critic Apollon Grigor'ev, who was first to formulate the difference between Western European and Russian conceptions of national education or Bildung – which he attributed to Russia's special sociopolitical conditions, geographic breadth, and cultural heterogeneity. Steiner also shows how Grigor'ev's cultural vision served as the catalyst for the creative explosion that produced Russia's most famous novels of the 1860s and 1870s. Positing the classic Russian novel as an inheritor of the Enlightenment's key values – including humanity, self-perfection, and cross-cultural communication – For Humanity's Sake offers a unique view of Russian intellectual history and literature.

Author : Clemens N. Nathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Sake of Humanity written by Clemens N. Nathan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Andrew Stephens
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004141251
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Sake of Humanity written by Alan Andrew Stephens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Sake of Humanity is a collection of essays in honour of Clemens N. Nathan, a man occupying a remarkable position in the public life of the United Kingdom. Over a period of several decades, he has stimulated and facilitated discussion, research and study on a striking array of topics, including international organisations, Human Rights, interfaith relations and the Holocaust and German-Jewish history - as well as in his own area of professional expertise: textile science and technology. His approach has been characterised by academic rigour, social concern and a commitment to historical truth, along with an adventurous and innovative spirit. All these qualities are also to be found in this collection of essays by his friends and admirers, to produce a truly fascinating book, with new insights into many topics, and a number of chapters destined to become classics in their fields. Above all, it is an erudite and charming volume, full of surprises!

Author : Jalal D. Omran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806224978
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For the Sake of Humanity written by Jalal D. Omran and published by . This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Futerfas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732677708
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eisenhower's Warning written by Judith Futerfas and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We feel that we all must heed Eisenhower's Warning for the sake of Our Humanity, Constitution, Republic, and Liberty. This text is a compilation of some of the most important links and passages we have seen, in an effort to show Our Readers the seriousness of and rationales behind our concerns. Our goals include, without political affiliation, to increase public awareness of these concerns and to reinforce our important values, including, that no one is permitted to be above the law, nor will anyone be beneath the law. Moreover, to emphasize that Our Constitution specifically states, in Amendment V, that "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." Also, our Declaration of Independence gives three examples of unalienable rights..."Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Furthermore, a government is created to protect these rights and to ensure that justice, including due process, proceeds ethically and with integrity -- blind to outside influence, and weighed with fairness, objectivity, and impartiality -- equal for all.

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674735463
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Humanity written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” is rooted in Seneca’s ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found—in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum establishes three core values of liberal education: critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen, and the development of the narrative imagination. Then, taking us into classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent research universities, small independent colleges, and religious institutions, she shows how these values are (and in some instances are not) being embodied in particular courses. She defends such burgeoning subject areas as gender, minority, and gay studies against charges of moral relativism and low standards, and underscores their dynamic and fundamental contribution to critical reasoning and world citizenship. For Nussbaum, liberal education is alive and well on American campuses in the late twentieth century. It is not only viable, promising, and constructive, but it is essential to a democratic society. Taking up the challenge of conservative critics of academe, she argues persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education today.

Author : T Matheno Matthews El
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512134605
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moorish America's for the Sake of Humanity written by T Matheno Matthews El and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary expose of human conditions

Author : Ryan Patrick McLaughlin
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 145148948X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preservation and Protest written by Ryan Patrick McLaughlin and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. McLaughlin systematically develops the paradigm of cosmocentric transfiguration, arguing that the entire cosmos shares in the eschatological hope of a harmonious participation in God’s triune life. With this paradigm, McLaughlin offers an alternative to anthropocentric and conservationist paradigms within the Christian tradition, an alternative that affirms both scientific claims about natural history and the theological hope for eschatological redemption.

Author : Robert Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Formation of the Human Character written by Robert Owen and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: