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Book Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle

Download or read book Listening to Reason in Plato and Aristotle written by Dominic Scott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato and Aristotle used moral philosophy to influence the way people actually live. Focusing on the Republic and the Nicomachean Ethics, this book examines how far they thought it could succeed in this.

Book Listening to Reason

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  • Author : Michael P. Steinberg
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-02
  • ISBN : 1400835739
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Listening to Reason written by Michael P. Steinberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking work reveals the pivotal role of music--musical works and musical culture--in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the "long nineteenth century." Michael Steinberg argues that, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity as it increasingly engaged and criticized old regimes of power, belief, and representation. His purview ranges from Mozart to Mahler, and from the sacred to the secular, including opera as well as symphonic and solo instrumental music. Defining subjectivity as the experience rather than the position of the "I," Steinberg argues that music's embodiment of subjectivity involved its apparent capacity to "listen" to itself, its past, its desires. Nineteenth-century music, in particular music from a north German Protestant sphere, inspired introspection in a way that the music and art of previous periods, notably the Catholic baroque with its emphasis on the visual, did not. The book analyzes musical subjectivity initially from Mozart through Mendelssohn, then seeks it, in its central chapter, in those aspects of Wagner that contradict his own ideological imperialism, before finally uncovering its survival in the post-Wagnerian recovery from musical and other ideologies. Engagingly written yet theoretically sophisticated, Listening to Reason represents a startlingly original corrective to cultural history's long-standing inhibition to engage with music while presenting a powerful alternative vision of the modern. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Book Music Lust

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  • Author : Nic Harcourt
  • Publisher : Seal Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781570614378
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Music Lust written by Nic Harcourt and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MP3 and iPod revolution have changed forever how people listen to music, but choosing what to listen to next remains the dilemma of music lovers everywhere. As music director of KCRW in Santa Monica, CA, and DJ of the influential "Morning Becomes Eclectic” show, Harcourt uncovers the best in new and overlooked music for over half a million listeners every day. In Music Lust, Harcourt does what Nancy Pearl did for books in her national bestseller Book Lust. With more than 80 unique and unusual thematic lists, Harcourt offers a wide-ranging guide to the best in recorded music, from Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa, Billie Holiday to Billy Bragg, bebop to hip-hop, The White Album to Back in Black, and much, much more. Known as an international tastemaker, Harcourt lends his discerning ear in recommended listening lists such as "Queens of Punk,” "Great Road Music,” and "My Desert Island Discs.” Within each list, key bands and performers are introduced and discussed, and pivotal albums and songs identified. With the diversity of genres represented and Harcourt at the helm, Music Lust’s eclectic access to musicians, themes, and styles is spot-on for this moment in music.

Book E

    E

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 798 pages

Download or read book E written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Listenary Listening

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  • Author : Wilma Zalabak
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-10-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Listenary Listening written by Wilma Zalabak and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever say, "Please just listen to me"? Many people carry that plea deep inside if not spoken aloud. You already have the equipment to meet this need, and here is your training. You can help heal the worst long-haul disease left by the pandemic--feelings of isolation and fear at previously unmatched intensities. This is your handbook for what to say and what not to say, organized so you can find quickly what you want. There are nine ideas to keep from getting bored while listening, four safety issues in gift listening, four ways language impacts listening, six different kinds of difficult listening situations, and seven tools for disabling systemic pervasive anxiety. Forty-five chapters like the titles already listed populate Book I, a complete training course for use in any setting. In Book II, the stories of Jesus's seven metaphors, seven signs, and more on listening from the Gospel of John illustrate the topics of Book I. Here is divine inspiration and enablement to spread the healing gift of listening.

Book Attending

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  • Author : Warren Heiti
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2021-07-15
  • ISBN : 0228007402
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Attending written by Warren Heiti and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attending – patient contemplation focused on a particular being – is a central ethical activity that has not been recognized by any of the main moral systems in the European philosophical tradition. That tradition has imagined that the moral agent is primarily a problem solver and world changer when what might be needed most is a witness. Moral theory has been agonized by dualism – motivation is analyzed into beliefs and desires, descriptions of facts and dissatisfactions with them, while action is represented as an effort to lessen dissatisfaction by altering the empirical world. In Attending Warren Heiti traces an alternative genealogy of ethics, drawing from the Platonism recovered by Simone Weil and developed in the work of Iris Murdoch, John McDowell, and Jan Zwicky. According to Weil, virtue is knowledge, knowledge is embodied, and the knower is nested in an ecosystem of relationships. Instead of analyzing and solving theoretical problems, Heiti aims to clarify the terrain by setting up objects of attention from more than one discipline, including not only philosophy but also literature, psychology, film, and visual art. The traditional picture captures one important type of ethical activity: faced with a moral problem, one looks to a general rule to furnish the solution. But not all problems conform to this model. Heiti offers an alternative: to see what is needed, one attends to the particular being.

Book On Violence

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  • Author : Nicholas J. Pappas
  • Publisher : Algora Publishing
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 1628944854
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book On Violence written by Nicholas J. Pappas and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Violence and reason are related, if only because violence is done to reason every single day. All it takes is to fail to listen. Everything else, all the real violence, starts right there, including tough talk in lieu of rational argument and the violence of not allowing us to think things through. In a virtual conversation with other thoughtful people, we can evaluate and refine our own positions, gaining clarity and confidence"--

Book A sinful world

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  • Author : Newton Phillip
  • Publisher : Europa Edizioni
  • Release : 2023-11-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book A sinful world written by Newton Phillip and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we find ourselves at a critical point in our history, looking at the myriad of problems and sins that we have committed and accumulated over the centuries. “A sinful world” explores this incredible journey, casting light on the processes and behaviours that led humanity until this crucial point. This awakening book will make the reader reflect, analysing years of human history. The consequences of our actions have an important impact on the environment and on basic human and social rights. This book scrutinizes the darker chapters of history, including slavery, colonialism, and genocides, to underscore the sins of the past that continue to shape our world today. “A sinful world” challenges us to consider our future moves, underlining the urgency in addressing some modern issues and reminding us that the choices we make today will impact future generations and will shape the world of tomorrow. Newton Phillip was born in Trinidad, West Indies and grew up in a Catholic orphanage where life wasn’t easy at all. Reaching the age of sixteen as it was with everyone else, he left the orphanage both with a job and somewhere to live which was provided by the orphanage as a start in life on one’s own. For four years the author struggled, drifting from job to job, acquiring no education, or skills. At the age of twenty he decided to join an old friend who had immigrated to England. The author started to work in a hotel before finding a job with British Telecom, where he remained until his retirement. Newton Phillip married at the age of twenty-eight and has three children.

Book Listening Habits of Soviet Citizens to the Voice of America

Download or read book Listening Habits of Soviet Citizens to the Voice of America written by United States Information Agency. Office of Research and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Listening Self

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  • Author : David Michael Levin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-03-06
  • ISBN : 0429514212
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book The Listening Self written by David Michael Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989. In this interdisciplinary study, Dr Levin offers an account of personal growth and self-fulfilment based on the development of our capacity for listening. This book should be of interest to advanced students of critical theory, psychology, cultural studies, ethics, continental philosophy, ontology, metaphysics.

Book Activate

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  • Author : Thea Spitz
  • Publisher : WestBow Press
  • Release : 2015-07-28
  • ISBN : 1512703303
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Activate written by Thea Spitz and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wish you could easily lead others to a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ but feel inadequate and ill-equipped to accomplish the task? Activate un-complicates the process of reaching out and sharing your faith, leaving you with every confidence that YOU TOO can be an active part of the Great Commission. An excellent balance between theology and personal experience, Activate is an easy read while providing strong meat for serious study. Not only a personal motivator, Activate is also a particularly useful instruction manual for group leaders wanting to prepare and encourage others to go into the harvest field. Let this book help you be part of the Great Commission, so you too can confidently say Here am I, Lord, send ME!

Book Synaesthetics

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  • Author : Paul Gordon
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2019-12-12
  • ISBN : 150135681X
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Synaesthetics written by Paul Gordon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Gordon proposes a new theory of art as synaesthetic and applies this idea to various media, including works--such as movies, illustrated books, and song lyrics--that explicitly cross over into media involving the different senses. The idea of art as synaesthetic is not, however, limited to those "cross-over" works, because even an individual poem or novel or painting calls upon different senses in creating its syn-aesthetic "meaning.” Although previous studies have often devolved into those who see an obvious connection between art and synaesthesia and those who adamantly reject such a notion, Synaesthetics furthers our understanding of synaesthesia as an important, if not essential, component of artistic expression.

Book Learning to Listen

Download or read book Learning to Listen written by Amy B. Rogers and published by 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people want to be known as a good listener, but listening involves so much more than sitting quietly while someone else is speaking. It’s a skill that requires practice, patience, and plenty of help along the way. Readers are given valuable advice on how to develop active listening skills and apply them in a variety of situations—from interactions with family and friends to time at school and work. Helpful sidebars provide additional information, and resources for further research encourage a closer study of communication. Relatable examples and full-color photographs enhance this engaging learning experience.

Book A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature

Download or read book A Brief Introduction to the Study of Human Nature written by Thierry Meynard S.J. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the “Confucius from the West”, the Italian Jesuit Giulio Aleni presented in the final years of the Ming dynasty the biological and sensitive dimensions of the human soul under the form of a fascinating dialogue.

Book Forum

Download or read book Forum written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Digitalization of Culture Through Technology

Download or read book Digitalization of Culture Through Technology written by Deepanjali Mishra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the era of digitalization, the world has shrunk and has succeeded in bringing people closer than expected. It has provided a social platform which enables people to interact with an individual, group of users anywhere irrespective of time. It has assisted in various academic, non academic as well as social activities which has made lives more easier. Various researches have been conducted that explored the versatile use of the Internet by the language communities and there has been growing research with various strands based on the possibilities of new technologies for the revitalization as well as for the documentation and preservation of cultures. Digitalization could indeed be the best possible methodology to revive the indigenous culture and folk traditions and practices all over the world and would be useful to demonstrate innovative technologies and prototypes, including digital repositories, digital archives, virtual museums and digital libraries, which result from established practices and achievements in the field. This volume brings out the contributions of renowned researchers, academicians and folklorists across the globe. It will be a resource to all researchers, linguistics and learners in the field of Digitalization of Cultural Studies.

Book Doodlebug Island

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  • Author : William F. Jordan
  • Publisher : Acacia Publishing
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0978828372
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Doodlebug Island written by William F. Jordan and published by Acacia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of illustrated vignettes, Doodlebug Island chronicles the lives of the slightly off-centered folks who live on the island's scenic shores. Separated from the rest of Arizona by the waters of Oak Creek, Doodlebug Island provides a haven for the inhabitants and their eccentricities, which mix, clash and create a multitude of comical-and usually chaotic-situations. Written with a slightly acerbic but definitely humorous edge, Doodlebug Island challenges the status quo on a variety of issues and engages readers in the triumphs, trials and frustrations of its characters' daily lives.