Download or read book Commemorating Epimetheus written by Les Amis and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epimetheus has largely been forgotten, and yet, he was once credited with bringing humans into the world naked, unshod, without bed, and unarmed. Rather than view this condition as one of deficiency to be covered over through some kind of technical artifice, Commemorating Epimetheus describes the human condition positively in terms of its state of origin. In other words, Amis seeks to articulate the goodness of fragility. The goodness of our fragility is approached phenomenologically and described in terms of sharing, caring, meeting, dwelling, and loving. These ways of existing with one another are not merely accidental characteristics of human beings or accidental characteristics of our relations with one another, but are inherently human. That is, we come into the world dependent on the care of others; we come to share in humanness through their care, and their care enables us to meet others, dwell with others, and, perhaps, love others. Commemorating Epimetheus investigates being human in terms of our relationships with one another.
Download or read book Why War written by Christopher Coker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the history that has allowed it to evolve over time? And what are its functions--how does it survive and thrive by exploiting the features that define it as a species? These are the four questions of the Tinbergen Method for explaining animal behavior, developed by the Nobel Prizewinning Dutch ethologist Niko Tinbergen. This book contends that applying this method to war--which is unique to humans--can help us better understand why conflict is so resilient. Christopher Coker explores these four questions of our past and present, and looks at our post-human future, assessing how far scientific advances in gene-editing, robotics and AI systems will de-center human agency. He concludes that we won't witness war's end until it has exhausted its evolutionary possibilities--meaning that, well into the future, war is likely to remain what Thucydides first called it: 'the human thing'. From the Ancients to Artificial Intelligence, Why War? is an exhilarating tour d'horizon of humankind's propensity to warfare and its behavioral underpinnings, offering new ways of thinking about our species' unique and deadly preoccupation.
Download or read book Finding Your Way To Heaven Without a Smartphone written by Joe Obidiegwu and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In efforts to understand the human being, our history, and our future, the story takes the reader through three different continents, gleaning cultural well-being and malaise of different races. The book highlights the common bond between all human races, while exploring reasons for the perceived outer differences our modern world hurtles forward, driven as it is by powerful technological engines of change, characterized by an obsessive and often idolatrous worship of intelligence, ruminative men and women all around the world ponder in the silence of their soul the fate of humanity. In the West, depression, suicide, incomprehensible mass shootings and myriad psychological disorders litter our cultural landscape, while abject poverty ravage developing nations. We have become highly intelligent beings that cannot solve our problems, yet we inhabit a natural world created out of wisdom and much of that wisdom is not reflected in our thoughts and lifestyle Modern man's obsession with intelligence and the material world has left him a stranger to spiritual things and wisdom. Consequently, humanity is left vulnerable to inexplicable and undiagnosed suffering. in an attempt to diagnose what ails modern man, this book presents a convincing and thought-provoking argument that we have forgotten who we are, and in so doing, have built a world terribly out of order with our divine nature. By walking the reader through my Nigerian upbringing and subsequent arrival in the West, I reveal some timeless wisdom that I believe can serve as a cure for some of the things that trouble us today. This inimitable book lights a path directing us again to who we truly are. It is a timely and deft clarion call to all of us. Finding Your Way to Heaven Without a Smartphone is a mixture of autobiography, cultural inquiry and philosophy. Joseph Obidiegwu, an Igbo from Nigeria, has lived on three continents. He has the necessary perspective and wisdom to look at the world's masquerade from different angles. There is no romanticization of traditional African village life, nor is there blind acceptance of the hectic to and fro of modern life on planet Smartphone. Don Burness, Ph.D. Professor of Literature at Franklin Pierce College Author of Echoes of the Sunbird and Wanasema Keywords: Inimitable, Interesting, Insightful, Autobiographical, Philosophical, Spiritual, Cultural, Thought-Provoking, Inspiring, Life-Changing
Download or read book Creating Albert Camus written by Brent C. Sleasman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this collection come from disparate fields such as theology, literature studies, political science, and communication studies and are guided by a commitment to consider what we can learn from Camus as opposed to where he was wrong or misguided in his life and writing. If there is a place to consider the shortcomings of a human being, especially one as unique as Albert Camus, it will not be found within this volume. The essays in this text are built around the theme that Albert Camus functions as an implicit philosopher of communication with deep ethical commitments. The title, Creating Albert Camus, is intended to have a double meaning. First are those voices who inspired Camus and helped create his ideas; second are those scholars working with Camus’s thoughts during and after his life who help create his enduring legacy. Bringing together scholars who embrace an appreciation of the philosophy of communication provide an opportunity to further situate the work of Camus within the communication discipline. This new project explores the communicative implications of Camus’s work.
Download or read book 30 Plays for Child Actors written by Gorman John Ruggiero and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty-five years, Gorman John Ruggiero trained child actors. The many productions are represented in this collection of his plays. These works include folktales, mythology, religious stories, and original works that can help children learn some of life’s lessons by acting them out on stage. Ruggiero spent many years working with children on the autism spectrum, and many of these plays were performed jointly with typically developing children to great success. This process truly enhanced the communication skills of the child actors, as well as helped develop in them an understanding of autism. Many friendships were created during the rehearsal and performance process as children learned about one another’s differences and commonalities. In a world where communication is sorely lacking, Ruggiero believes that physical, emotional, and intellectual expression, found in the performing arts, is crucial for the success in personal and professional relationships. Helping children perform these plays will advance that notion.
Download or read book John Macksoud s Other Illusions written by John Macksoud and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2009 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig Smith has provided an introduction and edition of John Macksoud's Other Illusions. This posthumous work, completed in 1973, reinforces a strain of relativistic theory that retrieves the Sophists and extends through Jacques Derrida to the present where many of us deal with constructed realities in our rhetorical theories. Macksoud was also offering a warning about pseudo-scientific research, a Philipic against the quantitative approach to communication theory. He not only attempted to reveal the rhetorical nature of their use of the scientific method, he tried to show that science itself was at base rhetorical. In form, the short book threatened the established order of the academic community. The book uses anecdotes, sayings, stories, and even jokes to mark off sections and to initiate new lines of thought. These devices were deemed subversive rather than performative because they are rarely, if ever, used in academic prose and because the messages they carry undercut normal ways of thinking.
Download or read book American Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins Tokens Commemorative War Medals Books Cabinets written by Spink & Son and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commemorating Prometheus written by Les Amis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorating Prometheus is an attempt to articulate some basic truths about the human condition. Prometheus is best known as the clever Titan who is said to have bestowed upon a nascent humankind the technical arts and a fire stolen from the gods. Our agri-cultural adventures these past 12000 years have elevated such Promethean tendencies while neglecting or forgetting others. This book commemorates a Prometheus who is far older and far more primordial. This Prometheus is the sibling of Epimetheus-an Epimetheus whose foolishness evinced a certain wisdom. For in bringing forth a naked, fragile, and dependent humankind, Epimetheus prepared the ground for the sharing, caring, meeting, dwelling, and loving through which human being is accomplished. And it was to the nurturing and safeguarding of this accomplishment that Prometheus dedicated himself long before any technological adventures. Upon the ground of our nakedness, our fragility, our dependence, Prometheus set about helping to bring us forth by bringing us together. Inclining us toward one another and setting between us a warmth and affection, Prometheus raised us up through drawing us toward one another. He set about teaching us the art of the open hand extended. Setting us along the path of mutual care, Prometheus joined our hearts and hands and he joined our bodies and souls. Thus, long before gathering round the fire of any hearthside, we were gathered round the warmth of caring hearts. And long before our hands were fitted for the grasping of any tool, Prometheus raised us up into our human being. By way of Prometheus, humankind was made pregnant with the future, a future not exhausted by the throwing of any stone or the manufacture of any thing.
Download or read book Pandora s Box written by Dora Panofsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire, and Goethe, she is familiar to all of us, and "Pandora's box" is a household word. In this classic study Dora and Erwin Panofsky trace the history of Pandora and of Pandora's box in European literature and art from Roman times to the present. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Burning Bright written by Diana Dethloff and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues.
Download or read book The Critical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Critical Review Or Annals of Literature written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Standard Reference Work for the Home School and Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A dictionary of the English language written by Robert Joseph Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Robert Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sullivans School Series written by Sullivan, Brothers and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
