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Book Eros Element

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  • Author : Cecilia Dominic
  • Publisher : AIBHS
  • Release : 2017-05
  • ISBN : 1945074043
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Eros Element written by Cecilia Dominic and published by AIBHS. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeologist short on time. A professor about to fail out of his career. A deadly ancient mystery that could unleash a dark force into the world... Objects tell Iris McTavish their secrets, but none can enlighten her as to how to save her household. The only way to survive may be to marry an odious lordling who'll expect her to give up her dreams of becoming an archaeologist. But there may be one chance... Professor Edward Bailey hasn't made a major discovery in the decade since he figured out how to isolate aether. With the world's coal supply running low, he could be a hero if only he could stabilize the finicky element. Now his job and department are on the line if he doesn't. When a mysterious industrialist recruits Iris and Edward to join an expedition across Europe to search for clues in classical art and artifacts, both see a possible solution to their problems. But they're not the only ones who seek an answer to the aether puzzle, and some will kill for the knowledge to stay hidden... Can Iris and Edward solve the riddles of the past before they're guaranteed to lose their futures? Eros Element is the thrilling first book in the Aether Psychics steampunk fantasy series. If you like spirited female leads, vulnerable heroes, and alternate histories, then you’ll love Cecilia Dominic’s airy escapade. Buy Eros Element to unlock the secrets of the past today!

Book Stoic Eros

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  • Author : Simon Shogry
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2024-02-29
  • ISBN : 1009037447
  • Pages : 139 pages

Download or read book Stoic Eros written by Simon Shogry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stoics distinguish two forms of eros. In vicious agents eros is indeed a passion and thus born out of a defective rational judgment about what is needed for happiness. But there is also a positive form of erotic love, practiced by the Sage on the basis of knowledge, which aims to reproduce his virtuous condition in others. In this Element, the author shows how the Stoics' wider theoretical commitments in ethics, epistemology, aesthetics, and psychology support their duplex account of eros. They also consider the influence of Plato's Symposium on the Stoic account, arguing for hitherto unrecognized links with Socratic moral psychology. The Element concludes with an assessment of how the Stoic erotic ideal fares in relation to our intuitions about the non-egoistic and particularized nature of love.

Book Elements and Ephemeris of Eros

Download or read book Elements and Ephemeris of Eros written by Clifford E. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eros Element

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  • Author : Anne Bartolucci
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-03
  • ISBN : 9781945074363
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Eros Element written by Anne Bartolucci and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient energy. A daring expedition. Two misfit scientists in a race against time... Iris McTavish always wanted to follow in her father's footsteps. But when his sudden death leaves her household on the brink of ruin, she may have to choose an unwanted marriage over her passion of archaeology. To save her house and prove her worth, she embarks on a mysterious and dangerous expedition... Edward Bailey's strict scientific code holds back his anxiety and heartbreak. With his professorship and his department in danger, however, he realizes he'll need to find the secret to turning unstable aether into limitless power to keep himself afloat. And for once, Edward can't do it alone... As Iris and Edward seek out hidden clues, they're hunted by clockwork spies and a shadowy society. During their dash across Europe, the misfit explorers must work together to crack a worldwide energy crisis and discover the truth if they want to stay alive. Eros Element is the thrilling first book in Aether Psychics, a series of Victorian-era steampunk adventures. If you like puzzling mysteries, incredible inventions, and a touch of magic, then you'll love Cecilia Dominic's high-spirited series.

Book The Comforter

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  • Author : Sergius Bulgakov
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2004-06-09
  • ISBN : 1467422169
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Comforter written by Sergius Bulgakov and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-06-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergius Bulgakov is widely considered to be the twentieth century's foremost Orthodox theologian, and his book The Comforter is an utterly comprehensive and profound study of the Holy Spirit. Encyclopedic in scope, The Comforter explores all aspects of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as they are viewed in the Orthodox tradition and throughout church history. The book has sections on the development of the doctrine of the Spirit in early Christianity and on the development of the doctrine of procession in the patristic and later Byzantine periods. It also touches on the place of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity and explores Old and New Testament notions of the Spirit of God. A concluding chapter deals with the mystical revelation of the Holy Spirit. Made available in English through the work of Boris Jakim, today's premier translator of Russian theology and philosophy into English, Bulgakov's Comforter in this edition is a major publishing event.

Book Different by Design

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  • Author : Omawumi Efueye
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2015-11-30
  • ISBN : 1504946502
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Different by Design written by Omawumi Efueye and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To say that marriage is today facing unprecedented crises is to be guilty of a chronic understatement. Soaring divorce rates have been fuelled by inadequate preparation for marriage, ignorance about its purpose, premarital sex, and counterfeit incarnations like polygamy, polyandry, and cohabitation. Additionally, economic pressures, increasing global amorality, and the determination to redefine marriage are further sounding the death knell for marriage. The good news is that there is nothing new under the sun, and this institution, which has survived every onslaught in every community across every age, will continue to do so. The purpose of this book is to heal marriages in this generation and, more significantly, equip the next generation to approach, prepare for, and conduct marriage as God intended. In this candid, practical, Bible-inspired treatise, you will discover the following: The purpose of marriage and lessons from the first marriage How clearly defined roles determine your marriage's success and insulate you from the scourge of unmet expectations A spiritual and practical checklist for picking the right spouse in the first place Three critical principles of communication Learning to fight properly by mastering conflict resolution techniques How not to make outlaws of your in-laws and parents "I can't live without you!"myth or fact? If sex can be good and at the same time godly; also, what is sexually permissible for a Christian couple What happens when the initial attraction fades or love dies What to do when your spouse is attracted to or involved with an external party The key to raising godly offspring The pervading theme from which the book derives its title is that men and women are different by design. Marriages totter and collapse because spouses do not realise this divine inbuilt design imperative to the success of their connubial experience. Enjoy discovering the truth this book exposes you to and the liberty it engenders in your marital walk.

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1990

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1990 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Morality and Beyond

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  • Author : Paul Tillich
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780664255640
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Morality and Beyond written by Paul Tillich and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Tillich's classic work confronts the age-old question of how the moral is related to the religious. In particular, Tillich addresses the conflict between reason-determined ethics and faith-determined ethics and shows that neither is dependent on the other but that each alone is inadequate. Instead, Tillich reveals to us the gift that came with the arrival of Christ: a new reality that offers a power of being in which we can participate and out of which true thought and right action are possible. The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

Book Visions

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  • Author : C.G. Jung
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-05-29
  • ISBN : 1317725905
  • Pages : 1547 pages

Download or read book Visions written by C.G. Jung and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 1547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Jung, the beautiful and brilliantly creative 28-year old Christiana Morgan was an inspired force whose path in self-analysis paralleled his own quest for personal knowledge. By teaching Morgan the trance-like technique of active imagination, Jung helped her embark on a series of archetypal adventures which she depicted in paintings of great virtuosity and he candidly recounted at a seminar given to some of his closest followers. Through his eloquent description of the fiery, mythic visions of a woman discovering her repressed sexuality and feminine power, Jung reveals how deeply this encounter challenged his understanding of feminine psychology. These two volumes bring together for the first time colour reproductions of Morgan's paintings with a complete transcript of the seminar.

Book The Power of Divine Eros

Download or read book The Power of Divine Eros written by A. H. Almaas and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.

Book The Elements of Astronomy

Download or read book The Elements of Astronomy written by Robert Stawell Ball and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Critique of Theological Reason

Download or read book The Critique of Theological Reason written by James P. Mackey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and reality itself are the final casualties; and with these morality and religion. Beginning from the theological reaches of philosophy, this book argues that gods played a crucial part in modern philosophy, even when it was most critical of them; that the dominant nihilism of Derrida is really an excessive and misleading outcome of a contemporary philosophy which could otherwise resonate with all that is best in our evolutionary image of the universe; that moralists who turn to art in order to overcome the fact–value version of this deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary and historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science.

Book Democratic Culture and Moral Character

Download or read book Democratic Culture and Moral Character written by Jerome Braun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book returns critical theory to its roots in both psychology and the social sciences. It shows some of the relationships between equality in a political and social sense and personal identity that either relates well to such equality, or rebels against it. All this reflects processes of social and cultural influence that involve not only random change but also processes of social and cultural evolution that themselves have effects regarding potentials for self-fulfillment and even public morality. This book provides a framework to help one study the interaction between individual aspirations and social opportunities. Jerome Braun, known for his writings in interdisciplinary social science, an approach he calls pragmatic critical theory, here provides a book that discusses issues relevant to the moral underpinnings of democratic society, including issues of social evolution and of culture and personality. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Psychology (particularly in the areas of Psychology of Personality and Cultural Psychology), Sociology (especially those interested in Sociology of Alienation and Sociology of Culture, as well as Sociology of Mental Health), Anthropology (particularly in the area of Psychological Anthropology), Cultural Studies, and Social Theory in general.

Book Setting Plato Straight

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  • Author : Todd W. Reeser
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-12-28
  • ISBN : 022630714X
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book Setting Plato Straight written by Todd W. Reeser and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant. For this, we have fifteenth and sixteenth-century European humanists to thank. As these scholars—most of them Catholic—read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem: how to be faithful to the text yet not propagate pederasty or homosexuality. In Setting Plato Straight, Todd W. Reeser undertakes the first sustained and comprehensive study of Renaissance textual responses to Platonic same-sex sexuality. Reeser mines an expansive collection of translations, commentaries, and literary sources to study how Renaissance translators transformed ancient eros into non-erotic, non-homosexual relations. He analyzes the interpretive lenses translators employed and the ways in which they read and reread Plato’s texts. In spite of this cleansing, Reeser finds surviving traces of Platonic same-sex sexuality that imply a complicated, recurring process of course-correction—of setting Plato straight.

Book The Development of Plato s Political Theory

Download or read book The Development of Plato s Political Theory written by George Klosko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication twenty years ago, the first edition of this work has been the closest thing to a standard book on Plato's political theory. Like the first edition, this edition of The Development of Plato's Political Theory provides a clear, scholarly account of Plato's political theory in the context of the social and political events of his time, and draws connections between the development of his political theory and other aspects of his philosophy, especially his moral psychology. Special attention is paid to the political nature of Plato's political theory, to how his lifelong concern with questions of moral and political reform evolved along with other aspects of his theory, and to both Socrates' and his own efforts to reform actual cities. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to take into account scholarly developments during the last twenty years. Major changes from the first edition include reworking central aspects of chapters on the Statesman and Laws and detailed discussion of questions of interpretation, how Plato's dialogues should be read. Among other subjects receiving increased attention are Plato's alleged totalitarianism and racism and the place of the nocturnal council in the political theory of the Laws.

Book Shakespeare s Hyperontology

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  • Author : Harald William Fawkner
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780838633830
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Hyperontology written by Harald William Fawkner and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing a number of poststructuralist devices, H. W. Fawkner employs an ontodramatic line of approach in order to suggest that a single hidden pattern of hyperontological suggestion organizes Shakespeare's entire imaginative outlook in Antony and Cleopatra.

Book Zenons Politeia

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  • Author : Robert Bees
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2011-06-09
  • ISBN : 9004207465
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Zenons Politeia written by Robert Bees and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeno’s Republic, a design of the ideal state consisting of gods and wise citizens, has been controversial since antiquity. The study looks at the controversial topics and tries to come to a new reading of the Republic as the vision of a society where life is lived according to natural law. The provocative call to promiscuity, incest and cannibalism can be explained within the frame of the cosmo-biological system, outlined by the founder of the school. This reading confirms that Stoic ethics with its central theory of oikeiosis is not concerned with the individual’s self-discovery as with the cosmos’ self-preservation. Attached is a collection of the fragments with German translations. Zenons Politeia, der Entwurf eines idealen Staates bestehend aus Göttern und Weisen, ist seit der Antike umstritten. Die vorliegende Studie behandelt nicht nur die kontrovers diskutierten Argumente, sie will auch zu einer neuen Deutung der Politeia als der Vision einer Gesellschaftsform führen, in der das Leben nach dem Gesetz der Natur verwirklicht ist. Die provokante Forderung nach Promiskuität, Inzest und Kannibalismus erfährt auf diese Weise eine Erklärung innerhalb des kosmo-biologischen Systems, das der Schulgründer geschaffen hat. Damit bestätigt sich die vom Autor jüngst vorgelegte Deutung, daß die stoische Ethik mit der Oikeiosislehre als ihrem Zentrum nicht auf die Selbstentfaltung des Individuums angelegt ist, sondern auf die Selbsterhaltung des Kosmos zielt. Beigegeben ist eine Sammlung der Testimonien mit deutscher Übersetzung.