Download or read book Conversemos sobre la muerte written by Juan Pablo Beca Infante and published by EDICIONES URANO. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ni cuándo, ni dónde, ni cómo. Nada sabemos sobre la llegada de la muerte, salvo que es inevitable. Y que nos aterroriza. Como si fuese un personaje siniestro y acechante construimos, entonces, maneras de alejarla, porque quisiéramos desconocer que algún día desapareceremos. Todos. ¿Y si dejamos de ignorarla? ¿Si suspendemos el miedo y reflexionamos con calma y en serio sobre la muerte? ¿Es posible entenderla como un acto de vida —el último, por cierto—, una suerte de capítulo final de una biografía? ¿Podemos anticiparnos y expresar nuestras preferencias por un buen morir? El doctor Juan Pablo Beca Infante, neonatólogo especialista en bioética, invita a replantearnos la idea de la muerte, a analizar sus aristas y desarmar mitos que asustan. Con sorprendente sencillez y cercanía, y mediante casos clínicos reales, expone los diversos contextos del morir, las vicisitudes de los trasplantes de órganos o los innegables matices de la eutanasia, y revela la trastienda de los profesionales de la salud, quienes también se empecinan, a veces, en negar lo irremediable. Profesor universitario y consultor clínico, el autor sostiene que la dignidad de cada vida humana, aun si dura escasos minutos o varios decenios, necesita un cierre que complete y confirme su significado. Y asegura que, si nos detenemos ahora, si lo pensamos hoy, y lo conversamos con nuestras familias y amigos, es posible participar de las difíciles decisiones que demanda el final de la vida. Tanto el propio, como el de quienes amamos.
Download or read book Sobre la muerte written by Olegario González de Cardedal and published by Ediciones Sigueme. This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spanish American Reader written by Ernesto Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Syncretism in Religion written by Anita Maria Leopold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a fascinating but problematic category of religious studies, "syncretism" is an elastic term that describes a wide range of practices characterized by the mixing or overlap of traditions. Syncretism in Religion offers the student a broad selection of essays, both classical contributions to the study of syncretism and new essays commissioned especially for this volume. Some important selections appear here in English for the first time. Also included is a list of references for further reading.
Download or read book Proscribing Peace written by Sophie Haspeslagh and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parties in conflict have labelled opponents for centuries, but Proscribing peace explores how international proscription has solidified such judgments by creating a category that has both symbolic and material ramifications. Sophie Haspeslagh draws on personal interviews and 20 years of statements by successive Colombian governments and the FARC to show how having stigmatized the armed group in such an extreme way, proscription makes it much harder to make peace with them. The branding of armed groups as 'terrorists' post 9/11 created a policy straitjacket for governments making it is more difficult to initiate negotiations with a listed group. This book develops the notion of the 'linguistic ceasefire' to explore how governments that claim they will never negotiate with terrorists end-up doing just that.
Download or read book La Vida Doble written by Arturo Fontaine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she is captured and tortured by agents of the Chilean repression during the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, Lorena, a leftist militant, must either forsake the allegiances of motherhood or betray the political ideals to which she is deeply committed. 5,000 first printing.
Download or read book Opiniones written by Victoria Rodrigo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a four-skills approach to the further development of language proficiency beyond the basics. Opiniones provides readers with an audio library—unscripted, native speakers talking about familiar topics—that expose the reader to different aspects of culture, dialectal differences and speech patterns. For those already familiar with the basics of Spanish.
Download or read book The American Dance Band Discography 1917 1942 Arthur Lange to Bob Zurke written by Brian Rust and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sigamos written by Lydia Vélez Román and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1997-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book C mara Averna written by Jorge Araya Poblete and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una antigua leyenda cuenta la historia de un lugar llamado Cámara Averna, situada en las entrañas de la tierra, cientos de metros por debajo de una iglesia. La leyenda cuenta que dicha cámara está llena de tesoros, uno de los cuales, la Llave del Averno, sirve para abrir una de las puertas del infierno hacia la tierra. La mayoría de quienes conocían la historia creían que se trataba sólo de un mito, hasta que una serie de extraños decesos empieza a llamar la atención de la Policía de Investigaciones y de miembros del arzobispado de Santiago. "Cámara Averna" es una nivola (novela breve) en que los protagonistas luchan desde sus trincheras para acabar con un enemigo que en un principio parecía estar radicado en una comunidad ecológica que ocultaba en sus filas a un grupo de seguidores del demonio, pero que luego revela su verdadero trasfondo.
Download or read book The Garifuna Story Now and Then written by Justin Flores and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Democracy Without Shortcuts written by Cristina Lafont and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.
Download or read book Ritual and Religious Belief written by Graham Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of ritual and how it relates to beliefs and ideas is of central importance in our understanding of the world. Rituals can become divorced from beliefs and religious believers regarded as simply "going through the motions". 'Ritual and Religious Belief: A Reader' presents the full range of scholarly thinking on ritual and ritualizing as they relate to belief. It questions the assumption that belief should take precedence over outward behaviour and engages with questions such as: how are rituals related to performance; are politics ritualized; and is there a difference between rituals and etiquette? This comprehensive volume brings together material by eminent scholars from across the centuries, ranging from Martin Luther's sacramental dialogues to the life and routine patterns of Zen Buddhist Temples and the relationship between magic, religion and science. It will be of interest to all those engaged in the study of the dynamics between ritual and belief.
Download or read book Law and Leviathan written by Cass R. Sunstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two legal luminaries, a highly original framework for restoring confidence in a government bureaucracy increasingly derided as “the deep state.” Is the modern administrative state illegitimate? Unconstitutional? Unaccountable? Dangerous? Intolerable? American public law has long been riven by a persistent, serious conflict, a kind of low-grade cold war, over these questions. Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule argue that the administrative state can be redeemed, as long as public officials are constrained by what they call the morality of administrative law. Law and Leviathan elaborates a number of principles that underlie this moral regime. Officials who respect that morality never fail to make rules in the first place. They ensure transparency, so that people are made aware of the rules with which they must comply. They never abuse retroactivity, so that people can rely on current rules, which are not under constant threat of change. They make rules that are understandable and avoid issuing rules that contradict each other. These principles may seem simple, but they have a great deal of power. Already, without explicit enunciation, they limit the activities of administrative agencies every day. But we can aspire for better. In more robust form, these principles could address many of the concerns that have critics of the administrative state mourning what they see as the demise of the rule of law. The bureaucratic Leviathan may be an inescapable reality of complex modern democracies, but Sunstein and Vermeule show how we can at last make peace between those who accept its necessity and those who yearn for its downfall.
Download or read book The American Race written by Daniel Garrison Brinton and published by New York : N.D. C. Hodges. This book was released on 1891 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
