Download or read book Five Moral Pieces written by Umberto Eco and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault’s Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world’s ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where the flow of information is unstoppable and the enemy is always behind the lines. Elsewhere, he questions the influence of the news media and identifies its contribution to our collective disillusionment with politics. In a deeply personal essay, Eco recalls his boyhood experience of Italy’s liberation from fascism. He then analyzes the universal elements of fascism, including the “cult of tradition” and a “suspicion of intellectual life.” And finally, in an open letter to an Italian cardinal, Eco reflects on a question underlying all the reflections in the book: What does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't believe in God? “At just 111 pages, Five Moral Pieces packs a philosophical wallop surprising in such a slender book. Or maybe not so surprising. Eco's prose here is beautiful.”—January Magazine
Download or read book The Moral Miscellany Or A Collection of Select Pieces in Prose and Verse for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth The Fourth Edition Corrected and Enlarged written by MISCELLANY. and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Pieces written by Lydia Howard Sigourney and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems for Young Ladies In Three Parts Devotional Moral and Entertaining written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Pieces in prose and verse MS note written by afterwards SIGOURNEY HUNTLEY (Lydia Howard) and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Pieces written by Lydia Howard Sigourney and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse written by L H 1791-1865 Sigourney and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Pieces in Rhyme Blank Verse prose New and Revised Edition written by James STRACHAN (Surgeon.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moral Power of Money written by Ariel Wilkis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"—money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.
Download or read book The Moral Miscellany Or a Collection of Select Pieces in Prose and Verse for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth written by Nathanael Sigismund Frommann and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Things by the ir Right Names and Other Stories Fables and Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse written by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Download or read book Flower Fruit and Thorn Pieces written by Jean Paul and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Missing Piece written by Shel Silverstein and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1976-04-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song -Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece. What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told in this fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment.
Download or read book The Moral Metaphor System written by Ning Yu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates moral metaphors in English and Chinese, applying conceptual metaphor theory to a comparative study of the linguistic manifestation of the moral metaphor system rooted in the domains of bodily and physical experience. Ning Yu sheds light on the metaphorical nature of moral cognition and how it is systematically manifested in language, and explores the potential commonalities that define moral cognition in general, as well as the differences that characterize distinct cultures. The work investigates moral cognition at the cultural level as reflected in language, based on linguistic evidence from both English and Chinese and, to a limited extent, multimodal evidence from the corresponding cultures. The moral metaphor system is taken to consist of three major subsystems, referred to as "physical", "visual", and "spatial". These subsystems are clusters of conceptual metaphors, whose source concepts are from domains of embodied experiences in the physical world, and which are formulated in contrastive categories with bipolar values for the target concepts of moral and immoral. The study is characterized by two keywords: system and systematicity: The former refers to the fact that metaphors (conceptual and linguistic) are connected within networks, and the latter to the need for those metaphors to be studied in such networks.
Download or read book Moral Majesty Spiritual Splendor written by Clark Elder Morrow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you really know the difference between shame and guilt? Could you spell out what makes envy very much a separate emotion from jealousy? And what exactly differentiates self-respect from self-esteem? This concise handbook takes you on an entertaining voyage of exploration through many basic human attitudes and attributes, all the while pointing out the poetic and practical facets of things like “Nobility and Ignobility,” or “Virtue and Virility.” Drawing on the wisdom of history’s greatest thinkers, but looking at it all from a Judeo-Christian perspective, this handy and witty manual will open your eyes to the defining characteristics of such pairs as pride and vanity, and equality and equity, as well as what makes them so arrestingly unique. Indispensable as a brief “field guide” to the deepest dimensions of the human experience, and delightful in its stylish delivery, Moral Majesty, Spiritual Splendor will show you the moral fundamentals of what we all experience in our daily lives, from a classically informed Christian viewpoint.
Download or read book Cut Pieces written by Lotte Hoek and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the shadowy world of the short, pornographic cut-piece clips that appear in some films in Bangladesh and examines their place in South Asian film culture. It provides a portrait of the production, consumption and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid and shines a light on Bangladesh's state-owned film industry and popular practices of the obscene. The book also reframes conceptual approaches to South Asian cinema and film culture, drawing on media anthropology to decode the cultural contradictions of Bangladesh since the 1990s.
