The Compass Of A Conscience

Author : Darnell Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1950906698
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Compass of a Conscience written by Darnell Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever heard the expression “Let your conscience be your guide”? Donnell White is a man determined to ease the guilt of his conscience by volunteering as a mentor at a detention center full of high-risk teens. The message he conveys to them is that the stumbling blocks in their lives can be used as stepping stones to turn things around. Donnell thought he’d seen and heard it all, but one teen named Brandon Bright showed him otherwise. Turns out, Brandon is a roller-coaster ride that Donnell forgot to fasten his seat belt on. In the process of trying to help Brandon turn his life around, Donnell’s life is changed in ways he couldn’t have imagined. In a classic case of the teacher becoming the student, this book brings to life the age-old saying “You’re never too old to learn.”

Author : Daniel M. Wegner
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262290553
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Conscious Will written by Daniel M. Wegner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-08-11 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will—those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling. The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will.

Author : Randy Loudenslager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615403052
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conscience Compass written by Randy Loudenslager and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think you might have ESP? Perhaps you simply wonder about the unexplainable "knowing" we all experience at times. The Conscience Compass reveals much that may surprise you about such "phenomena." Would you attempt to make a voyage across a vast ocean without the help of a directional device? Probably not, but countless numbers of us do just that when we begin life's journey. In the undertaking of such a journey the wise would learn to use a compass and trust in its direction. Encouraged from early life to chase after our dreams and pursue lofty goals we eagerly raise our sails and set out on our voyage. It is not long before we find ourselves adrift, buffeted by waves of disillusionment, disappointment and confusion. Without a good compass we lose our way. Few understand that we are equipped with such a tool from the very start of our journey To operate without the guidance of the conscience is like walking in the darkest night while claiming to see The Conscience Compass was written to help the reader become conscious of the supernatural compass we all possess and its life changing purpose. This book is packed with much to think about and consider, and yet it is written in an easy to read and understand format.

Author : Dave Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800706968
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compass for Conscience written by Dave Grant and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mathias Enard
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811226638
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compass written by Mathias Enard and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world On the shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East. With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Énard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources—nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie—and binds them together in a most magical way.

Author : Paul V. Zylstra
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781977205926
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Spiritual Compass written by Paul V. Zylstra and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rounding out its thesis with examples from history and etymology, Paul V. Zylstra's Our Spiritual Compass: The Conscience and Morality describes the immaterial parts of man in general and the conscience in detail as found in the Bible. These concepts are used to describe conflicts with modern philosophy, psychology, the legal system, and modern decision-making techniques and how they are used to condition the conscience to reject morality. Zylstra looks at the effects of government structures and the legal system on the conscience--following this thoughtful guide, lawmakers and jurists alike could make more Christian decisions and rulings. Our Spiritual Compass concludes with a discussion of conscientious objection and the need to protect the conscience of the individual. The book offers a peaceful alternative to counter some devastating effects of political correctness. Our Spiritual Compass is the second in a series of four books for Christian counselors working with people dealing with divorce, addiction, PTSD, and depression.

Author : Alexander Forrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The compass of the unknown written by Alexander Forrow and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lynn Stout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083600X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Conscience written by Lynn Stout and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperity Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly—few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things people do and how we can stop them. In this pathbreaking book, acclaimed law and economics scholar Lynn Stout argues that this focus neglects the crucial role our better impulses could play in society. Rather than lean on the power of greed to shape laws and human behavior, Stout contends that we should rely on the force of conscience. Stout makes the compelling case that conscience is neither a rare nor quirky phenomenon, but a vital force woven into our daily lives. Drawing from social psychology, behavioral economics, and evolutionary biology, Stout demonstrates how social cues—instructions from authorities, ideas about others' selfishness and unselfishness, and beliefs about benefits to others—have a powerful role in triggering unselfish behavior. Stout illustrates how our legal system can use these social cues to craft better laws that encourage more unselfish, ethical behavior in many realms, including politics and business. Stout also shows how our current emphasis on self-interest and incentives may have contributed to the catastrophic political missteps and financial scandals of recent memory by encouraging corrupt and selfish actions, and undermining society's collective moral compass. This book proves that if we care about effective laws and civilized society, the powers of conscience are simply too important for us to ignore.

Author : Steven J. Taylor
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651406
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acts of Conscience written by Steven J. Taylor and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation’s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. Bringing the abuses to the attention of newspapers and magazines across the country, they led a reform effort to change public attitudes and to improve the training and status of institutional staff. Prominent Americans, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, author Pearl S. Buck, actress Helen Hayes, and African-American activist Mary McLeod Bethune, supported the efforts of the young men. These young men were among the 12,000 World War II conscientious objectors who chose to perform civilian public service as an alternative to fighting in what is widely regarded as America’s "good war." Three thousand of these men volunteered to work at state institutions where they discovered appalling conditions. Acting on conscience a second time, they challenged America’s treatment of its citizens with severe disabilities. Acts of Conscience brings to light the extra-ordinary efforts of these courageous men, drawing upon extensive archival research, interviews, and personal correspondence. The World War II conscientious objectors were not the first to expose public institutions, and they would not be the last. What distinguishes them from reformers of other eras is that their activities have faded from the professional and popular memory. Taylor’s moving account is an indispensable contribution to the historical record.

Author : Robert D. Hare
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1606235788
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without Conscience written by Robert D. Hare and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines. With their flagrant criminal violation of society's rules, serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy are among the most dramatic examples of the psychopath. Individuals with this personality disorder are fully aware of the consequences of their actions and know the difference between right and wrong, yet they are terrifyingly self-centered, remorseless, and unable to care about the feelings of others. Perhaps most frightening, they often seem completely normal to unsuspecting targets--and they do not always ply their trade by killing. Presenting a compelling portrait of these dangerous men and women based on 25 years of distinguished scientific research, Dr. Robert D. Hare vividly describes a world of con artists, hustlers, rapists, and other predators who charm, lie, and manipulate their way through life. Are psychopaths mad, or simply bad? How can they be recognized? And how can we protect ourselves? This book provides solid information and surprising insights for anyone seeking to understand this devastating condition.