Download or read book The Mystery of Moral Authority written by Russell Blackford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.L. Mackie.
Download or read book The Nature of Moral Authority written by Francis Moore Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Basis and Scope of Moral Authority written by Weldon Robert Hess and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Because I Say So written by Nikki Stern and published by Bascom Hill Publishing Group Limited. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative new book, Nikki Stern presents a version of moral authority in contemporary America that is far from benign. The notion she challenges, in this deeply personal and powerful study of American cultural, is one that assumes an infallible knowledge based on an inflexible and unapologetic certainty. Stern comes to her views by way of her experiences as a 9/11 widow and presumed moral authority recipient. She questions why victims of tragedy are often seen as morally special, and wonders at how the moral edge is claimed by various public figures, only to be yanked away by a fickle, fretful public. Today's moral authority, she asserts, is fed by a pop culture that paradoxically encourages us to believe we're all experts and then overwhelms us with information - true, false, incomplete or unverifiable - that sends us scurrying back to the security of our most unshakeable and often unexamined beliefs. We know better, Stern assures us; we are better. Because I Say So urges us to reject absolute certainty, but it also lifts us up with the possibility that an open mind and an open heart can lead to the most unlikely of places - hope. Book jacket.
Download or read book Faith and Moral Authority written by Ben Kimpel and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Limits of Moral Authority written by Dale Dorsey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Because I Say So written by Nikki Stern and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BECAUSE I SAY SO is a provocative exploration of the role of moral authority in contemporary American culture. Stern begins with her own experiences as a 9/11 widow and goes on to examine the connection between moral authority and certainty to demonstrate how fear or close-mindedness might cause some to cede the high ground and others to claim it. Finally, she suggests that critical thinking, combines with a tempered optimism, might lift us past our desperate need for absolutes. desperate need for certainty and towards a more practical approach. This heartful and at times humorous book ends on a cautiously hopeful note.
Download or read book The Nature of Moral Authority written by Langdon Chevis Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Authority in Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill written by Bridget Vincent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do poems communicate moral ideas? Can they express concepts in ways that are unique and impossible to replicate in other forms of writing? This book explores these questions by turning to two of the late twentieth century's most important poets: Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill. Their work shows that a poem can act as an example of a moral concept, rather than simply a description or discussion of it. Exploring these two poets via their shared preoccupation with poetry's moral exemplarity opens up new perspectives on their work. The concept of exemplarity is shown to play an important role in these poets' most significant preoccupations, from moral complicity to the nature of lyric speech to literary influence to memorialisation, responsibility, and aesthetic autonomy. Through this new analysis of poetry, critical prose, drama, and archival materials, this book offers a major new study of ethics in the later period of these two writers—including recent underexplored posthumous works. In turn, the book also makes an important intervention in larger debates about literature and morality, and about the field of ethical criticism itself: this is the first book-length study to expand ethical criticism beyond its customary narrative focus. The ethical criticism of fiction is often an exercise in methodological advocacy, urging the use of more literary examples in moral philosophy. As this book shows, including poetry among these examples introduces new, lyric-inflected caveats about the use of literature as a form of moral example: caveats which remain invisible in narrative-centred ethical criticism.
Download or read book Moral Authority and Moral Choice written by William Henry Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Authority written by John Highet and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Affective Creation of Moral Authority written by Michael Barton and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Authority as a Power Resource written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction written by John J. Han and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery fiction as a genre renders moral judgments not only about detectives and criminals but also concerning the cultural structures within which these mysteries unfold. In contrast to other volumes which examine morality in crime fiction through the lenses of personal guilt and personal justice, Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction analyzes the effect of moral imagination on the moral structures implicit in the genre. In recent years, public awareness has attended to the relationship between social structures and justice, and this collection centers on how personal ethics and social ethics are bound together amidst the shifting moral landscapes of mystery fiction. Contributors discuss the interplay between personal guilt and social guilt – considering morality and justice on an individual level and at a societal level – using frameworks of certainty and ambiguity. They show how individual characters in works by Agatha Christie, Gabriel García Márquez, Natsuo Kirino, F.H. Batacan, and Stephen King, among others, may view their moral standing with certainty but clash with the established mores of their culture. Featuring essays on Japanese, Filipino, Indian, and Colombian mystery fiction, as well as American and British fiction, this volume analyzes social guilt and justice across cultures, showing how individuals grapple with the certainty, and, at times, the moral ambiguity, of their respective cultures.
Download or read book Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning Making written by Elaine Chan and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates interim narrative field texts of identity as teacher educator stories and demonstrates how researchers utilize common places of temporality, sociality, and place in analyzing narratives. This title describes conceptualizations of narrative research processes, bringing forward narrative tools and methods of layering narratives.
Download or read book Resurrection and Moral Order written by Oliver O'Donovan and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this truly seminal work, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University illuminates the distinctive nature of Christian ethics with profound thought and massive learning. By grounding Christian ethics in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, he avoids both a revealed ethics that has no contact with the created order and one that is purely naturalistic. For this second edition Professor O'Donovan has added a prologue in which he enters into dialogue with John Finnis, Martin Honecker, Karl Barth and Stanley Hauerwas. Essential reading for advanced students of theology and ethics and their teachers.
Download or read book Natural Law and Modern Society written by Sean Coyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern society is riven by social divisions: between conservatives and progressives; liberals and socialists; the mainstream and the rise of far-right political groups etc. Instead of truth, there are ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’. In the wake of problems caused by untruthful politicians and world leaders, by Brexit and Covid, the need to repair or rebuild our communities has become paramount, but what kind of community should we build, and on what foundations? This book suggests that natural law is such a foundation. Natural Law and Modern Society presents a new theory of natural law, grounded in the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas, aimed at answering questions relevant to the world of today: from the nature of morality and ethics to the theory of law, obligation and political authority; from the domestic realm to international community. It seeks to elicit from the natural law tradition timeless truths concerning the human condition, in particular the social and political dimensions to human existence. This mode of existence, it argues, is not a problem to be resolved through some permutation of political institutions, but a predicament to be managed. At the heart of the book is the identification of a 'core morality': a set of moral requirements that are foundational to every society at all places and times, as distinct from those standards that are particular to this or that society at some time.
