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Book of life
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life boat
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Eternal life
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artificial life support
artificial life support systems that use medical technology to aid, support, or replace a vital function of the body that has been seriously damaged. Such techniques include artificial pacemakers , internal defibrillators , dialysis machines (see kidney, artificial ), and respirators. The use of... Read more |
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karma
karma or karman , [Skt.,=action, work, or ritual], basic concept common to Hinduism , Buddhism , and Jainism . The doctrine of karma states that one's state in this life is a result of actions (both physical and mental) in past incarnations, and action in this life can determine one's destiny... Read more |
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Communitarianism
Communitarianism BIBLIOGRAPHY Communitarianism is a political philosophy that often stands in opposition to the principles of liberalism. Communitarians theorize that the community is the most important element of a society or culture. As such, the stability of the community must be enhanced... Read more |
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Brethren of the Common Life
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Augustin Eugene Scribe
Augustin Eugène Scribe , 1791-1861, French dramatist and librettist. He began his prolific and highly successful writing career with vaudeville sketches. One of the first playwrights to mirror bourgeois morality and life, he infused 19th-century French opera and drama with liberal political... Read more |
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Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle 1821-62, English historian. Contemptuous of the historical writing of his day, with its intense concern with politics, wars, and heroes, Buckle undertook the ambitious plan of writing a history of civilization, treating people in relation to each other and to the natural world.... Read more |
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Liberalism
...harsh conditions of life in a state of nature...one of free‐market liberalism's two core principles; Adam...laissez‐faire” liberalism, pervaded Revolutionary...class struggles and moral corruption. The frontier ethos...reformers redefined ... |
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Dewey, John
...thinking lay an expansive moral vision of democracy as...ideal but a wider way of life. As a philosopher, he sought compelling...designed to provide the moral ideals of democracy with what he...Old and New (1930), Liberalism and Social Action ... |
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New England
...labor in both North and South. Liberalism manifested itself likewise in the...the love of nature and social liberalism frequently to be observed in...Hawthorne, the interest in moral problems and in the Puritan...Ambassadors, with views of life elsewhere in ... |
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Republicanism
...from a selfish “liberalism,” such characterizations are...both republicanism and liberalism comprised multiple arguments...civic virtue despite the moral and political frailties...local republican public life by opposing commerce, centralized...religious ... |
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Kant, Immanuel
...order and modesty of Kant's life was undisturbed by the notoriety...Practical Reason (1790), places moral duty above happiness and asserts the existence of an absolute moral law (the “categorical imperative...essays in support of religious liberalism and the ... |
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Great Society
...assassination, provided an ideal climate for liberalism. But as the martyred president's image...of opportunity, enhancement of urban life, restoration of natural beauty, improvement...pulpit to define the cause as an urgent moral and civic issue. He quietly promoted... |
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Babbitt
...Babbitt, an enterprising, moral, stereotyped, and prosperous...believe in the virtues of home life, the Republican party, and middle...conventions. Suddenly tiring of his life, he takes a vacation with Paul Riesling...Bunch.” He next turns to liberalism, ... |
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liberalism
...Nevertheless it is clear what liberalism is opposed to: namely...association.Classical liberalism is usually identified...of the state in the lives of individuals. It is...such as the right to life, to property, to free...The philosophy of ... |
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relativism
...related disciplines. Moral relativism, likewise...particular, localized moral traditions (for example liberalism).One of the most forceful...has made clearer the moral and emotional basis...scientific way of life, which eliminates... |
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Lasch, Christopher
...fashionable social-issue liberalism' ‘obsessed with the rights...both the ideology of economic liberalism (which, in his view...capitalism (Women and the Common Life, 1996).Critics have argued...whom he admired for its ‘moral realism, its understanding... |
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humanistic sociology
...humanistic method (Documents of Life, 1983), outlines four criteria for humanistic...sociologist of the ultimate moral and political role...books are explorations of the moral crisis of modernity, the centralization...and the ambiguous legacy of liberalism. ... |
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economic life, sociology of
economic life, sociology of The fundamental...sociology of economic life can also be said to be...the broader values of liberalism and individualism, yet...conduct. A degree of moral order, together with...unique, religious and moral conditions ... |
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Liberalism and moral selfhood
...practices and forms of life characteristic of the...autonomously chosen ends. Liberalism's traditional conceptions...periodically have sought to rid liberalism of its more dubious...underpinnings, critics of liberalism (in particular those...up, the values ... |
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CRITICAL MORAL LIBERALISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE.(Review) (book review)
CRITICAL MORAL LIBERALISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE...political philosophy, liberalism is widely attacked and...all times. Most of liberalism's analytical friends...precondition of living a good life, which in turn is something...rights to govern ... |
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Civil societies: liberalism and the moral uses of pluralism. (Liberalism)
...participation in forming the moral dispositions of liberal...institutions and the internal life and organization of...forms of management). Liberalism does not command strict...crucial to the support of liberalism and the kind and degree...theories of ... |
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Government by choice: classical liberalism and the moral status of...
...institutions. Classical Liberalism Classical liberals tend...versions of classical liberalism is the fundamental importance...and extensive areas of moral freedom in which others...capacity to lead their own lives to the will of ... |
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Government by Choice: Classical Liberalism and the Moral Status of...
...institutions. Classical Liberalism Classical liberals tend...versions of classical liberalism is the fundamental importance...and extensive areas of moral freedom in which others...capacity to lead their own lives to the will of ... |
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Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice.(Review)
...Kant to defend a moral conception of...to live their lives as they see fit...out to benefit liberalism insofar as they...critical moral liberalism is critical because...there can be no moral or historical...to live their ... |
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Liberalism, feminism, and the promise of Lovibond's moral realism
...politics,1 the political liberalism of most early feminists...deceptive abstractness of liberalism's focus on equal rights...between private and public life-the historic core...male understanding of moral reasoning as abstract...universal.4 But if ... |
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Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual...
...forward to Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism...claims to be based on moral truth it must be antithetical...arguments of philosophical liberalism. Liberalism is blamed for leading...strive for in community life as well" (p. ... |
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Taking moral liberties; Bishop draws criticism for 'liberalism gone dotty'.
...was described as 'liberalism gone dotty' by a...I would interpret liberalism as something which...but this book takes liberalism way over the mark...in people's love lives. 'It is the role of moral dictator that has... |
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Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual...
...debate about the moral foundations of our public life," (p. 2) and...communitarianism and liberalism (at times in caricature...short on classical liberalism, while the other...Certainly, Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism... |
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