EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Meaning of Persons

Download or read book The Meaning of Persons written by Paul Tournier and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyd M. Perry Collection.

Book The Meaning of Persons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Antoine Tournier
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book The Meaning of Persons written by Paul Antoine Tournier and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of First Names

Download or read book A Dictionary of First Names written by Patrick Hanks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers for the name have been. It covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, and masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation. The book includes extensive appendices covering names from languages including Scottish, Irish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese names. Tables of the most popular names by year and by region are also included. From the traditional to the rare and unconventional, this book will tell you everything you need to know about names.

Book Means  Ends  and Persons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Audi
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0190251557
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Means Ends and Persons written by Robert Audi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a full-scale account of the morally important ideas of treating persons merely as means and treating them as ends. Audi clarifies these independently of Kant, but with implications for understanding him, and presents a theory of conduct that enhances their usefulness both in ethical theory and in practical ethics.

Book Persons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Spaemann
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0199281815
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Persons written by Robert Spaemann and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination and defence of the concept of personality, long central to Western moral culture but now increasingly under attack. Robert Spaemann tackles urgent practical questions, such as our treatment of the severely disabled human and the moral status of intelligent non-human animals.

Book Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons

Download or read book Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons written by Lisa Siraganian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language Association Winner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies Association Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886). Yet endowing a non-human entity with certain rights exposed a fundamental philosophical question about the possibility of collective intention. That question extended beyond the law and became essential to modern American literature. This volume offers the first multidisciplinary intellectual history of this story of corporate personhood. The possibility that large collective organizations might mean to act like us, like persons, animated a diverse set of American writers, artists, and theorists of the corporation in the first half of the twentieth century, stimulating a revolution of thought on intention. The ambiguous status of corporate intention provoked conflicting theories of meaning—on the relevance (or not) of authorial intention and the interpretation of collective signs or social forms—still debated today. As law struggled with opposing arguments, modernist creative writers and artists grappled with interrelated questions, albeit under different guises and formal procedures. Combining legal analysis of law reviews, treatises, and case law with literary interpretation of short stories, novels, and poems, this volume analyzes legal philosophers including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Frederic Maitland, Harold Laski, Maurice Wormser, and creative writers such as Theodore Dreiser, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Charles Reznikoff, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and George Schuyler.

Book The Superior Person s Book of Words

Download or read book The Superior Person s Book of Words written by Peter Bowler and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1985 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.

Book Meaning of Persons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Tournier
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 1982-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780060683689
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Meaning of Persons written by Paul Tournier and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1982-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Swiss psychiatrist explains his conception of the human personality

Book Cambridge Advanced Learner s Dictionary

Download or read book Cambridge Advanced Learner s Dictionary written by Kate Woodford and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.

Book Reasons and Persons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Parfit
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 1986-01-23
  • ISBN : 0191622443
  • Pages : 880 pages

Download or read book Reasons and Persons written by Derek Parfit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1986-01-23 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Book A Desk book of Errors in English

Download or read book A Desk book of Errors in English written by Frank H. Vizetelly and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Man s Search For Meaning

Download or read book Man s Search For Meaning written by Viktor E Frankl and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

Book The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

Download or read book The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation written by Lester Kaufman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling workbook and grammar guide, revised and updated! Hailed as one of the best books around for teaching grammar, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation includes easy-to-understand rules, abundant examples, dozens of reproducible quizzes, and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to middle and high schoolers, college students, ESL students, homeschoolers, and more. This concise, entertaining workbook makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. This updated 12th edition reflects the latest updates to English usage and grammar, and includes answers to all reproducible quizzes to facilitate self-assessment and learning. Clear and concise, with easy-to-follow explanations, offering "just the facts" on English grammar, punctuation, and usage Fully updated to reflect the latest rules, along with even more quizzes and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar Ideal for students from seventh grade through adulthood in the US and abroad For anyone who wants to understand the major rules and subtle guidelines of English grammar and usage, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation offers comprehensive, straightforward instruction.

Book Persons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter van Inwagen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-25
  • ISBN : 0199277508
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Persons written by Peter van Inwagen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy. This volume brings together metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. It explores idealist, dualist, and materialist views of persons.

Book English Synonyms Explained in Alphabetical Order  with Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers

Download or read book English Synonyms Explained in Alphabetical Order with Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers written by George Crabb and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Treat Persons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel J. Kerstein
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2013-02-21
  • ISBN : 0191652415
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book How to Treat Persons written by Samuel J. Kerstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is, 'just uses' the other and thereby acts wrongly. He takes his inspiration from Immanuel Kant's 'Formula of Humanity', which commands that we treat persons never merely as means but always as ends in themselves, and then develops the ideas suggested by the Formula into clear moral principles. Kerstein questions the plausibility of an orthodox Kantian account of the dignity of persons, before going on to develop a new, detailed account of his own. Kerstein's second main goal is to show how the Kantian principles he develops shed light on pressing issues in bioethics. He investigates how, morally speaking, scarce resources such as flu vaccine ought to be distributed—and he argues that allocating such resources in order to maximize benefits can be inconsistent with respecting persons' dignity. The book explores the morality of regulated markets in organs, and contends that in many contexts, buying organs from live 'donors' fails to honour their dignity. Finally, it probes the ethics of conducting research on 'anonymized' biological samples, and of conducting placebo-controlled pharmaceutical trials in developing countries. How to Treat Persons champions the view that even if an agent gets another's voluntary, informed consent to use parts of his body for transplantation or medical research, she might nevertheless be treating him merely as a means or failing to respect his dignity.

Book Challenge for the Chalet School

Download or read book Challenge for the Chalet School written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the headmistress of the Chalet School announces she will be away the whole term, both staff and pupils are thrown into confusion. The girls rally round, but the collapse of Miss Ferrars and the antics of two new students causes everyone to wonder whether they can survive the term.