[PDF] Only Goodness eBook

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408848058

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Each story in this series offers a poignant glimpse of family life – the ties we cling to; the ties we try to sever; and the ties that make us who we are. Told from a myriad of perspectives, from a dazzling array of some of the finest short story writers of our generation (including Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, Jon McGregor and Elizabeth Gilbert), Family Snapshots gives us a fresh, empathetic and moving insight into the meaning of family. Only Goodness is taken from Jhumpa Lahiri's dazzling collection of stories, Unaccustomed Earth.

Author : Blanshard, Brand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1317852869

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First published in 2002. This book is the second in a series of three, which discuss successively the position of reason in the theory of knowledge, in ethics, and in theology. Blanshard is concerned with the vindication of reason against philosophical attacks. Each of the three books is designed to stand by itself.

Author : David E. Alexander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441199845

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Most contemporary versions of moral realism are beset with difficulties. Many of these difficulties arise because of a faulty conception of the nature of goodness. Goodness, God, and Evil lays out and defends a new version of moral realism that re-conceives the nature of goodness. Alexander argues that the adjective 'good' is best thought of as an attributive adjective and not as a predicative one. In other words, the adjective 'good' logically cannot be detached from the noun (or noun phrase) that it modifies. It is further argued that this conception of the function of the adjective implies that recent attempts to provide necessary a posteriori identities between goodness and something else must fail. The convertibility of being and goodness, the privation theory of evil, a denial of the fact-value distinction, human nature as the ground of human morality and even a novel argument for the existence of God are some of the implications of the account of goodness that Alexander offers.

Author : R. Lawlor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230239277

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It is typically thought that the demandingness problem is specifically a problem for consequentialists because of the gradable nature of consequentialist theories. Shades of Goodness argues that most moral theories have a gradable structure and, more significantly, that this is an advantage, rather than a disadvantage, for those theories.

Author : Vanessa Davis Griggs
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0758273738

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Vanessa is a superb storyteller. --ReShonda Tate Billingsley A Blessed Trinity Novel As Pastor George Landris welcomes a new member to the Followers of Jesus Faith Worship Center, jealousy begins to shake up the congregation. . .. Gabrielle Mercedes has dreamed of being a dancer since she was a little girl. But her life takes a very different turn, and it's not the future she'd envisioned for herself. Feeling a void she can't fill, she finds the salvation she's been seeking in church and decides to start anew. Learning that her church has a dance ministry, she's thrilled to have her first love back in her life. Then she meets the handsome and professionally accomplished Zachary Wayne Morgan, and finally everything seems to be falling into place--until a past secret threatens to tear it all apart, and her newfound faith is put to the ultimate test. . . Praise For Vanessa Davis Griggs "I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style. She is one of a kind." --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author "Will make you laugh, cry, shout, and praise God. Goodness and Mercy was a true page-turner and will make you want more and more." --Urban Reviews

Author : Alan Levinovitz
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1782835245

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A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR Without our realising it, a single, slippery concept has become a secular deity throughout the modern industrial world. We make terrible sacrifices in its name: of our money, our health, and our planet. That deity is nature itself. From supermarket shoppers to evolutionary biologists, from atheists to pastors, from Alex Jones to Gwyneth Paltrow, we are all prone to the intuitive faith that life should be lived 'naturally'. But nature can't teach us how to live. If we try to stick to its imagined commands, eschewing human artifice in pursuit of Edenic purity, we jeopardise the environment, our health, and our society. (We also waste a lot of money on pots of weird slime). It is time to accept our profound responsibility to shape the world of which our technology and our selves are wholly a part.