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The Transcendent Character of the Good
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

The Transcendent Character of the Good

This volume addresses issues of moral pluralism and polarization by drawing attention to the transcendent character of the good. It probes the history of Christian theology and moral philosophy to investigate the value of this idea and then relates it to contemporary moral issues. The good is transcendent in that it goes beyond concrete goods, things, acts, or individual preferences. It functions as the pole of a compass that helps orient our moral life. This volume explores the critical tension between the transcendent good and its concrete embodiments in the world through concepts like conscience, natural and divine law, virtue, and grace. The chapters are divided into three parts. Part I ...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

  • Categories: Law

In this book, a global panel of experts considers the international implications of legalised euthanasia based on experiences from Belgium.

Euthanasia: Searching for the Full Story
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Euthanasia: Searching for the Full Story

This open access book has been written by ten Belgian health care professionals, nurses, university professors and doctors specializing in palliative care and ethicists who, together, raise questions concerning the practice of euthanasia. They share their experiences and reflections born out of their confrontation with requests for euthanasia and end-of-life support in a country where euthanasia has been decriminalized since 2002 and is now becoming a trivial topic.Far from evoking any militancy, these stories of life and death present the other side of a reality needs to be evaluated more rigorously.Featuring multidisciplinary perspectives, this though-provoking and original book is intende...

I Know Whom I Have Believed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

I Know Whom I Have Believed

From foreword: This book is a collection of my articles which had been published in theological journals in Indonesia such as ―Verbum Christi‖ and ―Jurnal Teologi Reformed Indonesia (JTRI).‖ There are five articles, some of them are writings on Christian apologetics particularly in Van Tillian presuppositionalism perspective. These papers are not arranged according to the dates of their publications but they are managed according to the topics in which the apologetics writings are placed in the first three chapters. The significance of Van Tillian apologetics to Muslims is the first chapter, then the second chapter speaking on Christian response to the idea of non-duality of Shankara...

The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy

"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth-century Europe, in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind.This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding human action. But is this rational approach really value-free? Today we tend to believe that values are inescapable, and that the descriptive-mechanical method implies its own set of values. Yet the assertion by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Enlighte...

Hume, Passion, and Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 243

Hume, Passion, and Action

David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. Elizabeth S. Radcliffe defends an original interpretation of Hume's views on passion, reason, and motivation which is consistent with other theses in Hume's philosophy, loyal to his texts, and historically situated. She challenges the now orthodox interpretation of Hume on motivation, presenting an alternative that situates Hume closer to "Humeans" than many recent interpreters have. Part of the strategy is to examine the thinking of the early modern intellectuals to whom Hume responds. Most of these thinkers insisted that passions lead...

Volume 19, Tome VI: Kierkegaard Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Volume 19, Tome VI: Kierkegaard Bibliography

The long tradition of Kierkegaard studies has made it impossible for individual scholars to have a complete overview of the vast field of Kierkegaard research. The large and ever increasing number of publications on Kierkegaard in the languages of the world can be simply bewildering even for experienced scholars. The present work constitutes a systematic bibliography which aims to help students and researchers navigate the seemingly endless mass of publications. The goal has been to create the most exhaustive bibliography of Kierkegaard literature possible, and thus the bibliography is not limited to any specific time period but instead spans the entire history of Kierkegaard studies.

Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation'
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation'

Presents a variety of scholarship on Schopenhauer's monumental text, placing it among the canonical works of nineteenth-century philosophy.

Plato's Gorgias
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Plato's Gorgias

This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice.

Kierkegaard Bibliography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Kierkegaard Bibliography

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