“…For some it is love and mindfulness; for others, wildness and heroic virtue. For still others the desire to separate a healthy manhood from toxic masculinity is a mistake: better to refuse to be men and salvage our humanity. …”

“…Through the singular figure of Sen no Rikyū, it found expression as wabi-cha, or wabi tea, the foundation of Japanese tea culture today. …”

“…Showcasing Ê¿AlÄ«'s life and travails in his own words, it also transcribes his profound reflections on piety and virtue, and on just and compassionate governance. …”

“…Bruni's text, originally published in 1549, counters misogynistic literature by highlighting the virtues and strengths of women, specifically addressing criticisms with reasoned arguments. …”

“…It proposes new understandings of the evolution of important republican concepts such as liberty, the rule of law, virtue, and the common good. This thought-provoking collection represents a significant contribution to the study of republican political ideology in the Renaissance and modern periods…”

“…The contributors believe that this shift has broad consequences for narratives of the Holocaust. By virtue of being "after" the accounts of survivors, storytellers must find their own ways of coming to terms with the historical reality that those testimonies have tried to communicate. …”

“…The Moral Compass, the inspiring and instructive companion volume to The Book of Virtues, offers many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history. …”

“…Drawing on findings from behavioral economics and psychology, she shows how we can motivate better-off people to lessen poverty without demanding unrealistic levels of moral virtue. Lichtenberg argues convincingly that this approach is not only practically, but morally, appropriate…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The need for a background account -- Practical wisdom, or thinking about what to do -- Objective functions and the goals of human action -- Risk, uncertainty, and contingency -- Virtue, or self-government in decision making -- Putting it all together: the synthetic character of practical wisdom -- Where does practical wisdom reside? …”

“…Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. This book explores how the writers of the period shared the same impulse to collect, arrange, and display objects, though in imagined settings, as literary artefacts. …”

“…Das beweist das umfangreiche Dokument der internationalen Theologenkommission zum Diakonat (2002) wie auch die Einrichtung einer Kommission zur Klärung der Aufgaben der "Diakonissen" in der alten Kirche durch Papst Franziskus (2016). Die Frage nach dem Frauendiakonat lässt sich jedoch nur klären, wenn zuvor das spezifische Profil des sakramentalen Diakonats herausgearbeitet wurde. …”

“…Included in the essays are such topics as Newman’s meaning of “views,” of relations between faith and reason, of imagination, on the college in relation to the university, on research, on whether virtue can be taught, on the development of ideas, on prepredicative experience and on phronesis, on “the gentleman” in relation to the Oratorian, on human nature, and on worldly wisdom in relation to holy wisdom. …”

“…In Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness, Jenny Davidson considers the arguments that define hypocrisy as a moral and political virtue in its own right. She shows that these were arguments that thrived in the medium of eighteenth-century Britain's culture of politeness. …”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foundations of Catholic ethics -- Moral relativism -- The natural law and revelation -- The river between -- Grace at the heart of virtue -- The cardinal virtues -- The virtues of grace -- The unity of the virtues -- Catholic social teaching -- Justice in the Catholic moral tradition -- The principles of Catholic social teaching -- The just war tradition -- Bioethics -- The dignity of the human person -- Beginning of life decisions -- End of life decisions…”

“…Thoroughly schooled in the principles of the utilitarian movement founded by Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill nevertheless brings his own unique intellectual energy to issues such individual freedom, equality, authority, happiness, justice, and virtue. On Liberty is Mill's famous examination of the nature of individuality and its crucial role in any social system that expected to remain creative and vital. …”
Acceso a las primeras páginas

“…Wenngleich der Kaiser in Christus wohl nur eine andere Erscheinungsform des römischen Sonnengottes Sol invictus gesehen hat, legte er mit seiner Entscheidung zur Förderung der christlichen Religion und Kirche die Grundlagen für die nächsten Jahrhunderte weströmischer und byzantinischer Geschichte. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Educating the appetites and passions; 6. Virtue intellectualism; 7. Socrates and his intellectual heirs: Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics; Appendix: Is Plato's Gorgias consistent with the other early or Socratic dialogues?…”

“…Gewalt wurde von ihnen je nach Konstellation und in Abhängigkeit von den Akteuren sehr unterschiedlich thematisiert und bewertet: Manche Formen von Gewalt – etwa solche in Familien, in der Kirche, im Sport oder in Erziehungseinrichtungen – wurden erst spät aufgegriffen und skandalisiert, andere – etwa der Rechtsterrorismus – nur eingeschränkt erfasst. …”

“…In this interview, Jeff Bleiel talks to Matthew Kirk, founder of Your Chief Scientist and the author of Thoughtful Machine Learning with Python about what AI can do for businesses, and the role of AI in a business strategy…”

“…Using iTunes as a media hub is easy with time-tested advice from author Kirk McElhearn. Kirk, who also pens Macworld's "The iTunes Guy" column, wrote this book to answer your questions about the many details of working with audio and video in iTunes, with notable coverage of Apple Music and iCloud Music Library and explanations of numerous iTunes quirks. …”