[PDF] The Power Of Ideals eBook

Author : William Damon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0199357765

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Cynicism often seems a smarter choice than idealism. There are reasons for this. Politicians have disappointed us time and again; trusted institutions have proven to be self-serving and corrupt; hopes for lasting world peace repeatedly have been dashed; and social inequities persist and increase, unabated by even the grandest of charitable efforts. It is now considered foolish to think that people can be counted on to rise above their narrow self-interests to serve the broader good, or to tell the truth if it does not reflect well on the self. Supporting this bleak view of the human condition is a moral psychology that has taken increasingly cynical turns in recent years. Famous studies have shown that we have an almost unlimited potential for cruelty when placed in the wrong situations. The Power of Ideals presents a different vision, supported by a different kind of evidence. It examines the lives and work of six 20th century moral leaders who pursued moral causes ranging from world peace to social justice and human rights. Using these six cases to illustrate how people can make choices guided by their moral convictions, rather than by base emotion or social pressures, authors William Damon and Anne Colby explore the workings of three virtues: inner truthfulness, humility, and faith. Through their portrayal of the noble lives of moral leaders, the authors argue that all of us--with ordinary lives--can exercise control over important life decisions and pursue ideals that we believe in.

Author : William Damon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199357749

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The Power of Ideals examines the lives and work of six 20th century moral leaders who pursued moral causes ranging from world peace to social justice and human rights, and uses these six cases to show how people can make choices guided by their moral ideals rather than by base emotion or social pressures.

Author : QuickRead
Publisher : QuickRead.com
Page : pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
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Category : Study Aids
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Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. Learn how personal morality impacts our daily lives. Are people mostly bad or mostly good? The answer to this hotly debated topic depends on your perspective and that’s exactly what Damon and Colby seek to explore. The Power of Ideals (2016) interrogates the true nature of human morality to investigate our hidden hearts, demons, and desires. Written for anyone who wants to know more about the psychology of morality and the impact of personal ethics, The Power of Ideals is an in-depth study of the true nature of human beings

Author : Enrico Carlini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3030452476

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This book discusses regular powers and symbolic powers of ideals from three perspectives– algebra, combinatorics and geometry – and examines the interactions between them. It invites readers to explore the evolution of the set of associated primes of higher and higher powers of an ideal and explains the evolution of ideals associated with combinatorial objects like graphs or hypergraphs in terms of the original combinatorial objects. It also addresses similar questions concerning our understanding of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of powers of combinatorially defined ideals in terms of the associated combinatorial data. From a more geometric point of view, the book considers how the relations between symbolic and regular powers can be interpreted in geometrical terms. Other topics covered include aspects of Waring type problems, symbolic powers of an ideal and their invariants (e.g., the Waldschmidt constant, the resurgence), and the persistence of associated primes.

Author : Jim Stengel
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0307720373

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Ten years of research uncover the secret source of growth and profit … Those who center their business on improving people’s lives have a growth rate triple that of competitors and outperform the market by a huge margin. They dominate their categories, create new categories and maximize profit in the long term. Pulling from a unique ten year growth study involving 50,000 brands, Jim Stengel shows how the world's 50 best businesses—as diverse as Method, Red Bull, Lindt, Petrobras, Samsung, Discovery Communications, Visa, Zappos, and Innocent—have a cause and effect relationship between financial performance and their ability to connect with fundamental human emotions, hopes, values and greater purposes. In fact, over the 2000s an investment in these companies—“The Stengel 50”—would have been 400 percent more profitable than an investment in the S&P 500. Grow is based on unprecedented empirical research, inspired (when Stengel was Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble) by a study of companies growing faster than P&G. After leaving P&G in 2008, Stengel designed a new study, in collaboration with global research firm Millward Brown Optimor. This study tracked the connection over a ten year period between financial performance and customer engagement, loyalty and advocacy. Then, in a further investigation of what goes on in the “black box” of the consumer’s mind, Stengel and his team tapped into neuroscience research to look at customer engagement and measure subconscious attitudes to determine whether the top businesses in the Stengel Study were more associated with higher ideals than were others. Grow thus deftly blends timeless truths about human behavior and values into an action framework – how you discover, build, communicate, deliver and evaluate your ideal. Through colorful stories drawn from his fascinating personal experiences and “deep dives” that bring out the true reasons for such successes as the Pampers, HP, Discovery Channel, Jack Daniels and Zappos, Grow unlocks the code for twenty-first century business success.

Author : Adams Ephraim Douglass 1865-1930
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781314537338

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Craig Huneke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521688604

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Ideal for graduate students and researchers, this book presents a unified treatment of the central notions of integral closure.

Author : Geoff Mulgan
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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What is it exactly that makes a governments good or bad? One of Britain's leading theoreticians and practitioners of government explains how governments work, how they should work, and why good government matters.