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Book On Cultivating Liberty

Download or read book On Cultivating Liberty written by Michael Novak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Cultivating Liberty brings together Novak's essays on moral ecology: the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of a free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American Founding, and includes a series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures ranging from Jacques Maritain to St. Thomas Aquinas. Along with a biographical essay and an introduction by Brian C. Anderson, On Cultivating Liberty is indispensable for anyone concerned about the future of democracy.

Book  Liberty to the Downtrodden

Download or read book Liberty to the Downtrodden written by Matthew J. Grow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883), a crusader for antislavery, women's rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons' religious liberty. Though not a Mormon, Kane sought to defend the much-reviled group from the "Holy War" waged against them by evangelical America. His courageous personal intervention averted a potentially catastrophic bloody conflict between federal troops and Mormon settlers in the now nearly forgotten Utah War of 1857-58. Drawing on extensive, newly available archives, this book is the first to tell the full story of Kane's extraordinary life. The book illuminates his powerful Philadelphia family, his personal life and eccentricities, his reform achievements, his place in Mormon history, and his career as a Civil War general. Further, the book revises previous understandings of nineteenth-century reform, showing how Kane and likeminded others fused Democratic Party ideology, anti-evangelicalism, and romanticism.

Book On Cultivating Liberty

Download or read book On Cultivating Liberty written by Michael Novak and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak, who has written on theology, philosophy, political economy, and business theory. This book brings together many of Novak's crucial essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of the free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American founding. A series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures such as Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Courtney Murray, along with an autobiographical essay by Novak and an introduction by Brian C. Anderson, complete On Cultivating Liberty, an indispensable book for anyone concerned about the future of the democratic project as we enter the third millennium.

Book In Praise of Life and Liberty   Cultivating Resilience

Download or read book In Praise of Life and Liberty Cultivating Resilience written by María Alejandra Benavent and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberty of Conscience

Download or read book Liberty of Conscience written by Martha Craven Nussbaum and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of America's commitment to religious liberty uses political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases to discuss its basis in six principles: equality, respect for conscience, liberty, accommodation of minorities, nonestablishment, and separation of church and state.

Book Be Free Where You Are

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  • Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2008-09-24
  • ISBN : 1427086745
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Be Free Where You Are written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium of the core teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, based on a talk given at a prison, shows how mindfulness practice can cultivate freedom no matter where you are. So many of us, inmates and outsiders alike, are in prisons of our own making.... The miracle of mindfulness can free us all Shepherds town Chronicle....

Book Live in Liberty

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  • Author : Daniel Bush
  • Publisher : Lexham Press
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 1577996283
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Live in Liberty written by Daniel Bush and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systemic problem plagues the local and global church: We habitually lose the gospel. In its place, we substitute personal prosperity, legalism, politics--and we end up paralyzing the mission of the church. Galatians contains Paul's passionate defense of the gospel. It shows us how to enjoy God's presence and everlasting peace, setting us free to love and be loved. In Live in Liberty, Daniel Bush and Noel Due help you apply the spiritual message of Galatians so that you may experience the liberating presence of God.

Book Uprooting Leninism  Cultivating Liberty

Download or read book Uprooting Leninism Cultivating Liberty written by Vladimir Tismaneanu and published by University Press of Amer. This book was released on 1992 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.

Book The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener s Companion

Download or read book The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener s Companion written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every family can have a garden." -Liberty Hyde Bailey Finally, the best and most accessible garden writings of perhaps the most influential literary gardener of the twentieth century have been brought together in one book. Philosopher, poet, naturist, educator, agrarian, scientist, and garden-lover par excellence Liberty Hyde Bailey built a reputation as the Father of Modern Horticulture and evangelist for what he called the "garden-sentiment"—the desire to raise plants from the good earth for the sheer joy of it and for the love of the plants themselves. Bailey's perennial call to all of us to get outside and get our hands dirty, old or young, green thumb or no, is just as fresh and stirring today as then. Full of timeless wit and grace, The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion collects essays and poems from Bailey's many books on gardening, as well as from newspapers and magazines from the era. Whether you've been gardening for decades or are searching for your first inspiration, Bailey's words will make an ideal companion on your journey.

Book Free Book

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  • Author : Brian Tome
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson
  • Release : 2010-02-01
  • ISBN : 1418588652
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Free Book written by Brian Tome and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am a fanatic about freedom. And I'm fanatical about coming at you hard in this book." Maybe you're not as free as you think you are. Even worse, you may have been duped into believing that a "balanced" life is the key to happiness (it isn't) or that a relationship with God is about layering on rules and restrictions (nope). Whether it’s media-fueled fear, something a parent or teacher said that you just can’t shake, or even the reality of dark spiritual forces bent on keeping you down, something is holding you back from the full-on freedom God intends for you. The Bible says, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." Not fear. Not guilt. Not morality. Freedom. You can have the sort of joy you thought only kids could have. The day of freedom is here.

Book The Learning of Liberty

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  • Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
  • Publisher : Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Learning of Liberty written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1993 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented or historical". -- American Political Science Review. "An important and thoughtful book, stimulating for citizens as well as scholars". -- Journal of American History.

Book On Ordered Liberty

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  • Author : Samuel Gregg
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2003-07-28
  • ISBN : 0739158406
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book On Ordered Liberty written by Samuel Gregg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no issue is more divisive among philosophers, jurists and theologians than the nature of human liberty. Liberty is central to the claims of the Christian Gospel, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the American Revolution. But discussions about the nature of freedom have been characterized by profound disagreement and unsettling questions. What does it mean to be free? Is freedom worth more than mens' lives? Why should man be free? What, if any, legitmate responsibilities accompany freedom? These subjects are that the heart of Samuel Gregg's new book On Ordered Liberty. Beginning with the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville and some natural law theorists, Gregg suggests that something which he terms 'integral law' must be distinguished from most contemporary visions of freedom. He argues that this new arrangement requires a complete repudiation of utilitarian ideas on the grounds that they are incompatable with human nature. He also recommends a new and more rigorous focus on the basic but often neglected-question: what is man? On Ordered Liberty goes beyond the liberal and conservative divide, asking its readers to think about the proper ends of human choice and actions in a free society.

Book Queen Liberty  The Concept of Freedom in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

Download or read book Queen Liberty The Concept of Freedom in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth written by Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Liberty traces the history of an idea that lay at the foundation of political thought in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and at the same time a certain political myth that formed a core element of Polish noble culture. Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz seeks to trace the evolution of the ideal of “golden liberty” from the state’s creation in the sixteenth century through to the distinctive degeneration of the idea and attempts at resuscitating it in the eighteenth century. She highlights what was different or even odd about the Polish concepts, as well as how they dovetailed into the broader European tradition stretching back to antiquity. This book broadens the European perspective of scholarship on the Republican tradition and presents the fascinating political thought of the ‘Republic of the Two Nations’.

Book Cultivating Genius

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  • Author : Gholdy Muhammad
  • Publisher : Scholastic Teaching Resources
  • Release : 2019-12-23
  • ISBN : 9781338594898
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Cultivating Genius written by Gholdy Muhammad and published by Scholastic Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework--one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names, Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from the study of literacy development within 19th-century Black literacy societies. The framework is essential and universal for all students, especially youth of color, who traditionally have been marginalized in learning standards, school policies, and classroom practices. The equity framework will help educators teach and lead toward the following learning goals or pursuits: Identity Development--Helping youth to make sense of themselves and others Skill Development-- Developing proficiencies across the academic disciplines Intellectual Development--Gaining knowledge and becoming smarter Criticality--Learning and developing the ability to read texts (including print and social contexts) to understand power, equity, and anti-oppression When these four learning pursuits are taught together--through the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework, all students receive profound opportunities for personal, intellectual, and academic success. Muhammad provides probing, self-reflective questions for teachers, leaders, and teacher educators as well as sample culturally and historically responsive sample plans and text sets across grades and content areas. In this book, Muhammad presents practical approaches to cultivate the genius in students and within teachers.

Book Ordered Liberty

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  • Author : James E. Fleming
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 0674070747
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Ordered Liberty written by James E. Fleming and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues—as well as rights—seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely, and permits government to encourage responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without sacrificing personal autonomy to collective determination. The battle over same-sex marriage is one of many current controversies the authors use to defend their understanding of the relationship among rights, responsibilities, and virtues. Against accusations that same-sex marriage severs the rights of marriage from responsible sexuality, procreation, and parenthood, they argue that same-sex couples seek the same rights, responsibilities, and goods of civil marriage that opposite-sex couples pursue. Securing their right to marry respects individual autonomy while also promoting moral goods and virtues. Other issues to which they apply their idea of civic liberalism include reproductive freedom, the proper roles and regulation of civil society and the family, the education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms (of association and religion) and antidiscrimination law. Articulating common ground between liberalism and its critics, Fleming and McClain develop an account of responsibilities and virtues that appreciates the value of diversity in our morally pluralistic constitutional democracy.

Book Uprooting Leninism  Cultivating Liberty

Download or read book Uprooting Leninism Cultivating Liberty written by Vladimir Tismaneanu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.

Book Our Dear Bought Liberty

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  • Author : Michael D. Breidenbach
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-25
  • ISBN : 067424723X
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Our Dear Bought Liberty written by Michael D. Breidenbach and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.