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Duns Scotus on Divine Love Texts and Commentary on Goodness and Freedom God and Humans

Duns Scotus on Divine Love Texts and Commentary on Goodness and Freedom God and Humans

The medieval philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus (1266-1308) was one of the great thinkers of Western intellectual culture exerting a considerable influence over many centuries. He had a genius for original and subtle philosophical analysis with the motive behind his philosophical method being his faith. His texts are famous not only for their complexity but also for their brilliance their systematic precision and the profound faith revealed. The texts presented in this new commentary show that Scotus' thought is not moved by a love for the abstract or technical but that a high level of abstraction and technicality was needed for his precise conceptual analysis of Christian faith. Presenting a selection of nine fundamental theological texts of Duns Scotus some translated into English for the first time this book provides detailed commentary on each text to reveal Scotus' conception of divine goodness and the nature of the human response to that goodness. Following an introduction which includes an overview of Scotus' life and works the editors highlight Scotus' theological insights many of which are explored here for the first time and shed new light on topics which were and still are hotly discussed. Scotus is seen to be the first theologian in the history of Christian thought who succeeds in developing a consistent conceptual framework for the conviction that both God and human beings are essentially free. Offering unique insights into Scotus' theological writings and faith and a particular contribution to contemporary debate on Scotus' ethics this book contributes to a clearer understanding of the whole of Scotus' thought. | Duns Scotus on Divine Love Texts and Commentary on Goodness and Freedom God and Humans

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Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake How Can Classroom Teachers Disrupt Discrimination and Promote Hope Foster Healing and Inspire Joyful Learning?

Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

First published in 1988. Moral innocence is of enduring interest because it seems to embody our ideals in their purest form. The place of moral innocence in politics is the central theme of Peter Johnson’s subtle and original book. Are there moral dispositions which are not only incompatible with politics but actually endanger it? If it is sometimes necessary to act badly in order to achieve desirable objectives what moral standpoints would exclude such a course at action? Peter Johnson demonstrates convincingly why philosophical accounts of morality past and present are unable to explain moral innocence: its full impact on politics can only be grasped by putting aside traditional theories. Literature provides the key to a deeper understanding of the relationship between politics and morality. Melville’s Billy Budd Shakespeare’s Henry VI and Graham Greene’s The Quiet American reveal moral innocence at work in political circumstances of great intensity. Through these and other literary figures we see at last the specific character of moral innocence and why it is connected with political disaster. This closely reasoned yet deeply passionate book illuminates a problem of great contemporary interest and nowhere more so than in American public life. Original in theme and content it confronts central issues of concern to the modern mind not simply to academics both teachers and taught but to all those interested in how they might be governed. | Politics Innocence and the Limits of Goodness

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Empirical Bayes Methods

Pure Sport Sport Psychology in Action

Beyond Legal Reasoning: a Critique of Pure Lawyering

Beyond Legal Reasoning: a Critique of Pure Lawyering

The concept of learning to ‘think like a lawyer’ is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book Jeffrey Lipshaw provides a critique of the traditional views of ‘thinking like a lawyer’ or ‘pure lawyering’ aimed at lawyers law professors and students who want to understand lawyering beyond the traditional warrior metaphor. Drawing on his extensive experience at the intersection of real world law and business issues Professor Lipshaw presents a sophisticated philosophical argument that the pure lawyering of traditional legal education is agnostic to either truth or moral value of outcomes. He demonstrates pure lawyering’s potential both for illusions of certainty and cynical instrumentalism and the consequences of both when lawyers are called on as dealmakers policymakers and counsellors. This book offers an avenue for getting beyond (or unlearning) merely how to think like a lawyer. It combines legal theory philosophy of knowledge and doctrine with an appreciation of real-life judgment calls that multi-disciplinary lawyers are called upon to make. The book will be of great interest to scholars of legal education legal language and reasoning as well as professors who teach both doctrine and thinking and writing skills in the first year law school curriculum; and for anyone who is interested in seeking a perspective on ‘thinking like a lawyer’ beyond the litigation arena. | Beyond Legal Reasoning: a Critique of Pure Lawyering

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The Pure Theory of International Trade and Distortions (Routledge Revivals)

International Trade and Economic Growth (Collected Works of Harry Johnson) Studies in Pure Theory

The Principles of Policy Thought A Philosophical Approach to Public Policy

The Good the Right Life and Death Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

An Introduction to Statistical Inference and Its Applications with R

Simone Weil: Basic Writings

Simone Weil: Basic Writings

Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher factory and farm labourer a political activist at home and abroad a loving friend daughter and sister—all these manifest a life devoted to the good in its many forms. Her writings explore the good open to us and the various routes to it spanning philosophy politics science and spirituality. While she saw her vocation primarily as a philosopher—examining questions concerning human faculties action and thought the limits of language and our need of mediation suffering and beauty for contact with reality—her startlingly original thought is often obscured by her having been too readily categorized as a Christian mystic. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an expertly edited anthology of Weil’s most important writings presenting her philosophy as it relates to the architecture of human nature politics work necessity beauty goodness and God. Working from the definitive French edition of Weil’s complete writings D. K. Levy and Marina Barabas have translated the essays anew or for the first time adding important notes and references absent from existing English language editions of Weil’s work. Following an extensive introduction that gives an overview of Weil's life and thought each part opens with a short preface situating the selected essays within Weil’s oeuvre. Simone Weil: Basic Writings provides an excellent entry point to Weil’s philosophy as well as a reference for students and scholars of Weil's thought in philosophy and related disciplines.

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Bayesian Statistical Methods

Bayesian Statistical Methods

Bayesian Statistical Methods provides data scientists with the foundational and computational tools needed to carry out a Bayesian analysis. This book focuses on Bayesian methods applied routinely in practice including multiple linear regression mixed effects models and generalized linear models (GLM). The authors include many examples with complete R code and comparisons with analogous frequentist procedures. In addition to the basic concepts of Bayesian inferential methods the book covers many general topics: Advice on selecting prior distributionsComputational methods including Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Model-comparison and goodness-of-fit measures including sensitivity to priorsFrequentist properties of Bayesian methodsCase studies covering advanced topics illustrate the flexibility of the Bayesian approach:Semiparametric regression Handling of missing data using predictive distributionsPriors for high-dimensional regression modelsComputational techniques for large datasetsSpatial data analysisThe advanced topics are presented with sufficient conceptual depth that the reader will be able to carry out such analysis and argue the relative merits of Bayesian and classical methods. A repository of R code motivating data sets and complete data analyses are available on the book’s website. Brian J. Reich Associate Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics and was awarded the LeRoy & Elva Martin Teaching Award. Sujit K. Ghosh Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University has over 22 years of research and teaching experience in conducting Bayesian analyses received the Cavell Brownie mentoring award and served as the Deputy Director at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute.

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Evagrius and Gregory Mind Soul and Body in the 4th Century

Evagrius and Gregory Mind Soul and Body in the 4th Century

Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa have either been overlooked by philosophers and theologians in modern times or overshadowed by their prominent friend and brother (respectively) Gregory Nazianzus and Basil the Great. Yet they are major figures in the development of Christian thought in late antiquity and their works express a unique combination of desert and urban spiritualities in the lived and somewhat turbulent experience of an entire age. They also provide a significant link between the great ancient thinkers of the past - Plato Aristotle the Stoics Clement and others - and the birth and transmission of the early Medieval period - associated with Boethius Cassian and Augustine. This book makes accessible to a wide audience the thought of Evagrius and Gregory on the mind soul and body in the context of ancient philosophy/theology and the Cappadocians generally. Corrigan argues that in these two figures we witness the birth of new forms of thought and science. Evagrius and Gregory are no mere receivers of a monolithic pagan and Christian tradition but innovative critical interpreters of the range and limits of cognitive psychology the soul-body relation reflexive self-knowledge personal and human identity and the soul’s practical relation to goodness in the context of human experience and divine self-disclosure. This book provides a critical evaluation of their thought on these major issues and argues that in Evagrius and Gregory we see the important integration of many different concerns that later Christian thought was not always able to balance including: mysticism asceticism cognitive science philosophy and theology. | Evagrius and Gregory Mind Soul and Body in the 4th Century

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What is this thing called Metaethics?

What is this thing called Metaethics?

What makes something morally right? Where do our ethical standards come from? Are they relative to cultures or timeless and universal? Are there any objective moral facts? What is goodness? If there are moral facts how do we learn about them? What do we mean when we say someone ought to do something? These are all questions in metaethics the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality the nature of ethical value the possibility of ethical knowledge and the meaning of ethical statements. To the uninitiated it can appear abstract and far removed from its two more concrete cousins ethical theory and applied ethics yet it is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of ethics. What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time. Beginning with a brief overview of metaethics and the development of a conceptual toolkit Matthew Chrisman introduces and assesses the following key topics: ethical reality: including questions about naturalism and non-naturalism moral facts and the distinction between realism and antirealism ethical language: does language represent reality? What mental states are expressed by moral statements? moral psychology: the theory of motivation and the connection between moral judgement and motivation moral knowledge: intuitionist and coherentist moral epistemologies and theories of objectivity and relativism in metaethics prominent metaethical theories: naturalism nonnaturalism error-theory and expressivism new directions in metaethics including non-traditional theories thick ethical concepts and extensions to metaepistemology and metanormative theory The Second Edition has been completely revised and updated throughout. This includes a new thematic organization of the core chapters many new examples a newly written final chapter including discussion of thick ethical concepts and all-things-considered normativity updated references to recent scholarly literature improved learning resources an expanded glossary of terms and much more. Additional features such as chapter summaries questions of understanding and suggestions for further reading make What is this thing called Metaethics? an ideal introduction to metaethics.

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Leibniz on Freedom and Determinism in Relation to Aquinas and Molina

The Custody Evaluation Handbook Research Based Solutions & Applications

The Custody Evaluation Handbook Research Based Solutions & Applications

Joint custody. Same?sex custody. Young children with the mother. Which is the best arrangement? Unfortunately for those who seek a trustworthy solution research has proven that there is no single best arrangement for all children. This timely volume however does offer a practical and realisic methodology with which to confront the challenging and often confusing issues facing the custody evaluator. THe only book of its kind The Custody Evaluation Handbook offers a strikingly helpful model for evaluating and assigning weight to the mountains of disparate information accumulated during a custody suit. Written by an unparalleled expert in the field of custody evaluation the book eschews what the author calls the negative incident model in which each parent responds to the custody process by compiling a long list of grievances against the hated opponent. It advocates instead a test?based approach that measures how successful each parent actually is at the job of parenting. The book describes numerous tests and tools for eliciting reliable information from both children and parents. With an eye to learning the actual impact a parent has on a child rather than what a given parent may or may not be doing the book emphasizes obtaining measurements from the involved child. Parent tests are designed to reflect the effectiveness with which a parent responds to typical childcare situations and the degree to which a parent truly knows ? and can satisfy the needs of ? a particular child. The volume also sets forth concepts derived from extensive research that are particularly helpful in understanding parent?child interactions and provides a specific system of nonadversary communication strategies that can be used and modeled in all interchanges with evaluation participants and in the wording of all written reports. Readers will also welcome the numerous suggestions from evaluators all over the country on specific custody dilemmas they have faced. The book is based on many years' meticulous research and is informed by a number of conceptual approaches that include: The proven premise that whatever certain parents intend to communicate is often not what their children are in fact perceiving and reacting to The Utilization Model of Milton E. Erikson The Thomas Chess and Birch goodness?of?fit model of parent?child interaction Bandler and Grinders' assertion that the meaning of a communication is the response it elicits regardless of the intentions of the sender Clearly spelling out the targets of a truly comprehensive and reliable evaluation The Custody Evaluation Handbook will be an invaluable handbook for custody evaluators and marriage and family therapists as well as other involved mental health professionals. | The Custody Evaluation Handbook Research Based Solutions & Applications

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Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies Book 7 The Greek Text with Introduction Translation Notes Dissertations and Indices

Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting

A Course in Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems

A Course in Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems

A Course in Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems 2nd Edition adds additional content to the author’s successful A Course on Ordinary Differential Equations 2nd Edition. This text addresses the need when the course is expanded. The focus of the text is on applications and methods of solution both analytical and numerical with emphasis on methods used in the typical engineering physics or mathematics student’s field of study. The text provides sufficient problems so that even the pure math major will be sufficiently challenged. The authors offer a very flexible text to meet a variety of approaches including a traditional course on the topic. The text can be used in courses when partial differential equations replaces Laplace transforms. There is sufficient linear algebra in the text so that it can be used for a course that combines differential equations and linear algebra. Most significantly computer labs are given in MATLAB® Mathematica® and Maple™. The book may be used for a course to introduce and equip the student with a knowledge of the given software. Sample course outlines are included. FeaturesMATLAB® Mathematica® and Maple™ are incorporated at the end of each chapter. All three software packages have parallel code and exercises;There are numerous problems of varying difficulty for both the applied and pure math major as well as problems for engineering physical science and other students. An appendix that gives the reader a crash course in the three software packages. Chapter reviews at the end of each chapter to help the students reviewProjects at the end of each chapter that go into detail about certain topics and introduce new topics that the students are now ready to seeAnswers to most of the odd problems in the back of the book

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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

The Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

An Architecture Manifesto Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice

The Iberian Legislatures in Comparative Perspective

An Outline of Chinese Literature II