A Case for Character: Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics, Paperback - Joel D. Biermann

Over the last several decades, perceptive observers of Western civilization have documented what virtually everyone has perceived: as the old found...

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Publisher: Institute of Education PressAuthor(s): Meryl ThompsonNumber of pages: 88Publication date: 1997Dimensions: 144 x 211 x 3Cover type: Paper...

This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business has evolved historically in the influential management theories and concepts. It lo...

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Addressing a topic of growing and vital concern, this book asks us to reconsider how we think about the natural world and our place in it. Steven B...

Reducere. Addresses the history, future and contemporary application of virtue ethics.

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This book offers a novel theory explaining the emergence of boredom in modernity. Presenting a Durkheimian topology of cross-cultural boredom, it g...

Reducere. Clearing a Path for the Gospel addresses numerous apologetics issues facing the Lutheran church in the twenty-first century. It explains how all tr...

Reducere. Classical virtue ethics, exemplified by Aristotle (d. 322 BC), asked: what can we know of human nature and the virtues by which it is perfected in ...

Moses Pava explores new and alternative ways of relating to Jewish texts and concepts. In doing so, he invents a nuanced, flexible, and sufficientl...

This book defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in fu...

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Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics develops an account of non-normative ethics that can be used to think about filmmaking and viewing, using two p...

Reducere. Aristotle was a philosopher who lived thousands of years ago, however, his ethical theory has a great deal to offer modern readers. Aristotle's vir...

This text provides an innovative approach to the pedagogy of contemporary planning processes within different cultural contexts. It has a multi-dis...

Reducere. Tree-rings worldwide and other evidence record an almost catastrophic change in the environment during the middle years of the 6th century AD. This...

Reducere. Virtue at Work is about good organizations, good managers, and good people, and how these can contribute to good communities. It provides an integr...

In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Heming...

Presents an exposition and defence of author's own version of virtue ethics. This book discusses a range of philosophical topics, including action,...

Reducere. Before you read: You should pray quietly and invite the Holy Spirit to breathe upon your understanding and make you comfortable. At the end of your...

A collection of essays from a revered member of the British Labour Party. What distinguished Cole was his distance from traditional marxist and bur...

Christian ethics, writes theologian D. Stephen Long, is the pursuit of God's goodness by people "on the way" to a city not built by human hands. Th...

DescriptionA leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technology to slow the pace of global warming. Climate en...

These 25 chorale preludes and fantasies explore the rich tradition of Lutheran hymnody from the perspective of a busy church organist who doesn't h...

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Bookseller Theodore Terhune investigates an old homicide case after he stumbles on the freshly murdered corpse of seaman Frank Smallwood, a man tho...

Reducere. At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a ...

Ethical issues facing anesthesiologists are more far-reaching than those involving virtually any other medical specialty. In this clinical ethics t...

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Reducere. It is one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century. How did Marilyn Monroe die? Although no pills were found in her stomach during the au...

In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inc...

In his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political system is doomed to failure by its internal inc...

DescriptionThe first ethics casebook that integrates clinical ethics (medical, nursing, and dental) and research ethics with public health and info...

Reducere. Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the import...

Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this book sparks new debate on the role of responsible innovation. Drawing on insigh...

Reducere. Clinical ethics is a relatively new discipline within medicine, generated not so much by the -Can we . . . ?- questions of fact and prognosis that ...

DescriptionHow did Gross domestic product (GDP) become the world's most influential indicator? Why does it still remain the primary measure of soci...

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Reducere. There are many ways to tell a story, and after 500 years of the Lutheran family, there are lots of stories to tell. For a movement that is so large...

Publisher: MX PublishingAuthor(s): Harry DemaioNumber of pages: 150Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 169 x 245 x 12Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. Closely organized around the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics -- the news industry's widely accepted "gold standard" of journali...

Publisher: Rockpool PublishingAuthor(s): Luke KennedyNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 23Cover type: Paperback / so...