Download or read book Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge written by Maryanne Cline Horowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom. This copiously illustrated investigation begins by examining the intellectual world of the Stoics, who originated the phrases "seeds of virtue" and "seeds of knowledge." Tracing the interrelated history of the Stoic cluster of epistemological images for natural law within humanity--reason, common notions, sparks, and seeds--Horowitz presents the distinctive versions within the competing movements of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, Augustinian and Thomist theologies, Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, and Erasmian Catholicism and the Lutheran Reformation. She demonstrates how the Ciceronian and Senecan analogies between horticulture and culture--basic to Italian Renaissance humanists, artists, and neo- Platonists--influence the emergence of emblems and essays among participants in the Northern Renaissance neo-Stoic movement. The Stoic metaphor is still visible today in ecumenical movements that use vegetative language to encourage the growth of shared values and to promote civic virtues: organizations disseminate information on nipping bad habits in the bud and on turning a new leaf. The author's evidence of illustrated pages from medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts will stimulate contemporary readers to evaluate her discovery of "the premodern scientific paradigm that the mind develops like a plant."
Download or read book Virtue Seeds Ages 3 6 written by Elaheh Bos and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through interactive activities, stories, colouring pages and suggestions, VIRTUE SEEDS provides an easy and hands-on tool to help incorporate virtues into our everyday activities and habits. Parents and educators will find this a useful tool to introduce virtues in simple and age appropriate ways. With 40 activities to choose from and 20 colouring pages, this book comes equipped with ways to explain the virtue, suggestions for related dialogue during the activities, and shares different ways to incorporate each virtue into daily life. Please see our other books for ages 7 - 11 and 12 www.plantlovegrow.com/virtue-seeds.html
Download or read book Sower s Seeds of Virtue written by Maria L. Maggi and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories is a "sampler" of Brian Cavanaugh from the first three books in his popular Sower's Seeds series. The stories are inspired by the lives of celebrities and ordinary people alike and deal with themes of love, faith, and hope.
Download or read book Seeds of Virtue written by Christopher Lapides and published by Cal-Productions. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I fight for good. What makes a man virtuous? Is it how he was raised? The people he surrounds himself with? Or is it something that comes from his very soul? For the young Druzeel Sesstar, it is the way he has always lived his life. Regardless of the tragic death of his parents, Druzeel stills sees the world filled with honor, kindness, and integrity, beliefs encouraged by his adoptive father Graeak, a powerful wielder of magic. He is content with his studies and driven to be as great a wizard as his mentor. Because of this, Druzeel has little time for the outside world. It is this isolation that has helped paint a land full of kindness and virtue, but when a powerful artifact is stolen, Druzeel will be thrust into a world that is not what he expected. When he finds that the world is not as genuine as he was taught, will he let the hard truth affect him or will he remain true to himself? When his beliefs are challenged at every turn, the good inside him shall be tested like never before. He must hold onto his convictions or he risks losing everything, including his soul.
Download or read book Seeds of Virtue written by Christopher Lapides and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I fight for good.What makes a man virtuous? Is it how he was raised? The people he surrounds himself with? Or is it something that comes from his very soul? For the young Druzeel Sesstar, it is the way he has always lived his life.Regardless of the tragic death of his parents, Druzeel stills sees the world filled with honor, kindness, and integrity, beliefs encouraged by his adoptive father Graeak, a powerful wielder of magic. He is content with his studies and driven to be as great a wizard as his mentor. Because of this, Druzeel has little time for the outside world. It is this isolation that has helped paint a land full of kindness and virtue, but when a powerful artifact is stolen, Druzeel will be thrust into a world that is not what he expected.When he finds that the world is not as genuine as he was taught, will he let the hard truth affect him or will he remain true to himself? When his beliefs are challenged at every turn, the good inside him shall be tested like never before. He must hold onto his convictions or he risks losing everything, including his soul.
Download or read book Growing in Virtue written by William C. Mattison III and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling analysis tying the work of Aquinas to contemporary literature on virtue Despite heightened attention to virtue, contemporary philosophical and theological literature has failed to offer detailed analysis of how people attain and grow in the good habits we know as the virtues. Though popular literature provides instruction on attaining and growing in virtue, it lacks careful scholarly analysis of what exactly these good habits are in which we grow. Growing in Virtue is the only comprehensive account of growth in virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Mattison offers a robust account of habits, including what habits are, why they are needed, and what they supply once possessed. He draws on Aquinas to carefully delineate the commonalities and differences between natural (acquired) virtues and graced (infused) virtues. Along the way, Mattison discusses the distinction between disposition and habit; the role of “custom” in virtue formation; the nature of virtuous passions; the distinct contribution of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to graced life; explanations for persistent activity after the loss of virtue; and the possibility of coexistence of the infused and acquired virtues in the same person. For readers interested in virtue and morality from a philosophical perspective and scholars of theological ethics and moral theology in particular, Mattison offers compelling arguments from the work of Aquinas explicitly connected to contemporary scholarship in philosophical virtue ethics.
Download or read book Commentary on Thomas Aquinas s Virtue Ethics written by J. Budziszewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although St Thomas Aquinas famously claimed that his Summa Theologiae was written for 'beginners', contemporary readers find it unusually difficult. Now, amid a surge of interest in virtue ethics, J. Budziszewski clarifies and analyzes the text's challenging arguments about the moral, intellectual, and spiritual virtues, with a spotlight on the virtue of justice. In what might be the first contemporary commentary on Aquinas' virtue ethics, he juxtaposes the original text with paraphrase and detailed discussion, guiding us through its complex arguments and classical rhetorical figures. Keeping an eye on contemporary philosophical issues, he contextualizes one of the greatest virtue theorists in history and brings Aquinas into the interdisciplinary debates of today. His brisk and clear style illuminates the most crucial of Aquinas' writings on moral character and guides us through the labyrinth of this difficult but pivotal work.
Download or read book Ocean of Eloquence written by and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is of particular interest because it shows the presence of the Yogācāra (Mind Only) school in Tibet. It is well known that the Mādhyamaka school flourished in Tibet, but less well known that Yogācāra doctrines were also studied and practiced. The former school stresses the inexpressible ultimate; the latter, the natural luminosity of mind. This is probably the best introduction to the distinctive eight consciousness systems of Yogācāra. It also makes understandable the different meanings of the profound alaya-vijnana (the storehouse consciousness, or basis of all) that is the pivotal eighth consciousness in their system. For those interested in meditation, the author's introduction explains how earlier Tibetan meditation (the method of allowing mind to look into its own pure nature) uses the eight-consciousness system. The book is remarkable in that it addresses the problem of how a person trapped within the confines of a limited and deluded personality can transcend that state and attain liberation. By his inquiry into the process of transformation, Tsong kha pa makes profound comments which will interest those who ask whether enlightenment is a gradual process or a sudden breakthrough. Tsong kha pa (1357-1419) wrote extensively on nearly every aspect of Buddhist religious philosophy and practice. The text edited and translated here is the Yiddang kun gzhi dka'ba'iignas rgyacher'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho, often referred to as the Commentary on the Difficult Points.
Download or read book The Relation of Dogmatism and Scepticism in the Philosophical Treatises of Cicero written by Margaret Young Henry and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resilience and the Virtue of Fortitude written by Craig Steven Titus and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a renewed, classic vision of the human person and the ordering of the sciences as read through the complementary and, at one level, corrective insights of empirical psychosocial studies on resilience.
Download or read book Fresh Packet of Sower s Seeds written by Brian Cavanaugh and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of one hundred short stories on a variety of topics is the perfect resource for teachers, preachers, and public speakers, and for private meditation. Indexed by theme.
Download or read book Training the Mind Cultivating Loving kindness written by Chögyam Trungpa and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: Using this book could be hazardous to your ego! The slogans it contains are designed to awaken the heart and cultivate love and kindness toward others. They are revolutionary in that practicing them fosters abandonment of personal territory in relating to others and in understanding the world as it is. The fifty-nine provocative slogans presented here-each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa-have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training. They emphasize meeting the ordinary situations of life with intelligence and compassion under all circumstances. Slogans include, "Don't be swayed by external circumstances," "Be grateful to everyone," and "Always maintain only a joyful mind." This edition contains a new foreword by Pema Chodron.
Download or read book Commentary on Thomas Aquinas s Virtue Ethics written by J. Budziszewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.
Download or read book The Magus Book 1 written by Francis Barrett and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has proved to be the most sought after set of books on magic and alchemy ever published. Powerful work and considered so dangerous that for many years, rare copies could only be found in certain libraries, locked away from the general public and from those who would use (or misuse) its power. Original set first published in 1801. by author who spent many years of study before releasing them. Includes rare illustrations from original sources. Covers natural magic, amulets and charms, potions, precious stones, candles, alchemy, the philosophers stone, transmutation, the four elements, numbers, and the planets.
Download or read book Seeds of Virtue Seeds of Change written by Jikyo Cheryl Wolfer and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-seven women Zen masters teaching in this collection came to Soto Zen because they believed their spiritual practice could make a difference in themselves and a difference for the world. They speak directly to us from the platform of their own awakening experiences because the world most needs the ethical values found in these teachings on body, speech, and mind. It offers the authentic presence of teachers firmly planted in the Dharma with the myriad flavors of Zen practice from the informal personal taste of a small Zen community to the formal banquet of large urban centers. This book of Zen teachings is one response to the current global crises which demand a spiritual response equal to or greater than the problems we humans have collectively created. Like seeds planted and creating change, the teachings speak to those already meditating or those ready to begin meditation with the individuals worldwide who recognize the need to meditate together. Their words open us to the nature of compassion for ourselves and others. The lives of these women Zen masters inspire us to walk beside them in the Dharma and root ourselves in the deep groundwork of a spiritual practice and the living virtue of a spiritual home.
Download or read book Dispelling the Darkness written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Inquiry concerning the doctrines of previous lives and emptiness -- Selections from Inquiry concerning the doctrines of previous lives and emptiness -- Introduction to Essence of the Christian religion -- Essence of the Christian religion -- A final thought
Download or read book Brill s Companion to the Reception of Cicero written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Cicero is a collection of essays by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars that situates Cicero in the context of his use and abuse from antiquity to the present, and is intended to provide readers with several good reasons to return to the study of Cicero's writings with greater interest and respect.
