“…Through careful, contextually sensitive analysis of Plato's arguments concerning the virtue of sophrosyne, Thomas M. Tuozzo brings the dialogue's lines of inquiry together, carrying Plato's argument forward to a substantive conclusion. …”

“…But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the world's last best hope.…”

“…., was der Mensch und was die Kirche ist, wie das Verhältnis des Menschen zur Schöpfung und des Christen zu anderen Religionen gedacht ist. …”

“…He becomes a model of Christian practices, beliefs and virtues including worship, faith (even Nicea's formulation), justification by faith, conversion, catechesis, confession, martyrdom, baptism (in many modes), endurance, asceticism, simplicity of language, penitence, and last-minute salvation. …”

“…The emotions, at least some emotions--are essential to a well-lived life. They are or can be virtues, features of the human condition without which civilized life would be unimaginable…”

“…The book lays out the detail of the most significant contemporary moral theories - including utilitarianism, virtue ethics, Kantianism, and contractarianism - and reconsiders these theories in the light of two questions that should perhaps be asked more often: Is moral theory, with its tendency to regiment ethical thought and experience, really the best way for us to apply reason to deciding how to live? …”

“…Its conclusions are compelling, not only by virtue of the exhaustive comparison, but also because several lines of analysis coalesce to confirm the overall findings of the book…”

“…"Tra i filoni di ricerca esplorati da Giuseppe Mari (1965-2018) nei contributi scientifici presenti in «Pedagogia e Vita», l’educazione e la formazione del carattere, la virtù e la vita buona costituiscono un “tripode d’oro” che orienta e sostiene la sua riflessione pedagogica nel corso del tempo. …”

“…Written in 44 BCE, De amicitia provides both a striking analysis of the conflicts between personal and civic loyalty and a strong statement about the close links between friendship, wisdom, and virtue. In the first full commentary on De amicitia in more than a century, Katharina Volk and James Zetzel provide an illuminating guide to the dialogue, explaining language and style, philosophy, and historical context. …”

“…From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s--Publisher description…”

“…Risk-based decision theory shifts people's relationships to the future through knowledge of possible dangers and foregone opportunities, thus inspiring anxious solicitude and deceptive hopes for total security. This book uses virtue ethics to analyze these problems and to suggest ways to enjoy these technologies' positive benefits while constraining their dangerous aspects through a better understanding of practical reasoning and a theological analysis of our responsibility for future risks"--…”

“…Veteran IT professional and author Kirk Hausman explains the business value behind IT architecture and…”

“…Between 1999-2006 Addyman Archaeology carried out extensive archaeological excavations on the peninsular site of Kirk Ness, North Berwick, during the building, landscaping and extension of the Scottish Seabird Centre. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Un/deserving migrants and resisting dehumanisation --Living Research five: public anger in research (and social media) --6 Conclusion: 'ordinary' people and immigration politics --Living Research six: collaborations --Afterword by Kiri Kankhwende --Appendix: further details on research methods --Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Phase 2d: Post-built structures within the upper levels of the cultivation soilsAnglian Kirk Ness? - An archaeological and historical contextualisation; Chapter 4: Kirk Ness in the Medieval and Early Post-Reformation Period; Introduction; Historical context; Earlier cartographic sources for the church; Earlier antiquarian sources for the church; Later commentary and discovery; James Richardson and the excavation of the old kirk site in 1951-2; Circumstances and progress of the 1951-2 excavation; The architecture and archaeology of St Andrew's Kirk - a synthesis; Church artefacts…”

“…""...the perfect companion to Programming Massively Parallel Processors by Hwu & Kirk."" -Nicolas Pinto, Research Scientist at Harvard & MIT, NVIDIA Fellow 2009-2010 Graphics processing units (GPUs) can do much more than render graphics. …”

“…Within the vast Ovidian bibliography, taking the opportunity provided by the celebrations of the Bimillenary of the poet's death (17-2017), the volume aims at offering a useful tool to deepen, in a diachronic and synchronic perspective, not only the multifarious virtues of Ovid's poetry, his extraordinary Alexandrian ars, the stages of his Reception starting from antiquity, but also - if not above all - an undisputed and in some ways unreachable quality of the Ovidian language and style: the disruptive icastic strength, the ability to employ, like few others, the images in the construction of the poetic text, of its narrative plots, of its elegant refinement, of its effectiveness in the reader’s Reception. …”

“…Reseña del editor: Der vorliegende Band 6 der Reihe 'Fragmenta Melanchthoniana' umfasst Beiträge zu ganz unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Melanchthon- und Humanismusforschung: zur Kindheit und zum Geschichtswerk Melanchthons, zu seiner Christologie und Geometrie, kunsthistorische Beiträge zu Reformatorenbildnissen, zur Ausbreitung der Reformation im Kraichgau, zum Türkenbild in der Frühen Neuzeit, zur Geschichte des Heidelberger Schlosses, zur Baugeschichte des Melanchthonhauses und der Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Alle Beiträge sind Facetten einer vielschichtigen Geschichte Melanchthons und der protestantischen Tradition. …”

“…Overall, the author defends a very inclusive view, 'extending' the limits of art, and he argues for its virtues. Some of the limits discussed concern our senses (our different perceptual modalities), some concern vagueness and fuzzy boundaries between different types of works of art, some concern the amount of human intention and intervention in the process of creation of an artwork, and some concern the border between art and science. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Un descenso a los infiernos / María Zambrano -- Una voz que venía de lejos : María Zambrano, 1904-1991 / Octavio Paz -- Miradores de María Zambrano / Adolfo Castañón -- Delirio y destino : notas sobre la escritura autobiográfica de María Zambrano / Rose Corral -- María Zambrano y el Libro de Job / Angelina Muñiz-Huberman -- La sacralización de la materia : María Zambrano y Pablo Neruda / Anthony Stanton -- María Zambrano : camino a la esperanza / Ramón Xirau…”