Encountering Others Understanding Ourselves In Medieval And Early Modern Thought
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Encountering Others Understanding Ourselves In Medieval And Early Modern Thought
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Author : Nicolas Faucher
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-12-05
Encountering Others Understanding Ourselves In Medieval And Early Modern Thought written by Nicolas Faucher and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-05 with History categories.
Recent research has challenged our view of the Abrahamic religious traditions as unilaterally intolerant and incapable of recognizing otherness in all its diversity and richness; but a diachronic and comparative study of how these traditions deal with otherness is yet to appear. This volume aims to contribute to such a study by presenting different treatments of otherness in medieval and early modern thought. Part I: Altruism deals with attitudes and behaviors that benefit others, regardless of its motives. We deal with the social rights and emotions as well as the moral obligations that the very existence of other human beings, whatever their characteristics, creates for a community. Part II: Religious recognition and toleration considers identity, toleration and mutual recognition created by the existence of religious or ethnic otherness in a given social, religious or political community. Part III: Evil deals with religious otherness that is considered evil and rejected such as heretics and malevolent, demonic entities. The volume will ultimately inform the reader on the nature of religious toleration (including beliefs and doctrines, even emotions) as well as of the self-definition of religious communities when encountering and defining otherness in different ways.
Common Good And Self Interest In Medieval And Early Modern Philosophy
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Author : Heikki Haara
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-04-03
Common Good And Self Interest In Medieval And Early Modern Philosophy written by Heikki Haara and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-03 with Philosophy categories.
This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both renowned and lesser-known thinkers from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, covering also the relevant ancient background. By bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern periods, they provide fresh insights into how moral and political philosophers understood the concepts of the common good and self-interest, along with their ethical and political implications. The concept of the common good occupies a central role in philosophical reflections on the public and private dimensions of moral and social life in contemporary debates. By exploring the rich and diverse ways in which the relationship between the common good and self-interest has been understood, this volume has the potential to contribute to our ongoing efforts to critically discern the possibilities and limitations of these concepts in the present. Thus, the volume will be useful for scholars interested in the multi-layered role of the notion of the common good both in the history of philosophy and in contemporary moral and political philosophy.
Pursuing Hope In The Premodern World
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Author : Ville Vuolanto
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2025-07-18
Pursuing Hope In The Premodern World written by Ville Vuolanto and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-18 with History categories.
This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective of social and cultural life in ancient, medieval and early modern societies. This edited collection brings together fourteen chapters based on case-studies from its contributors, along with a theoretical chapter that serves as the introduction. Throughout history, people have gone on with their lives despite many kinds of trials and tribulations. In this, hope, understood as a future-oriented positive disposition, has been a major driving force to manage uncertainty, mitigate despair, and to give meaning to living. This book analyzes these life situations and changing responses to them in the context of hope and futurity in a longue durée perspective.
Charity And Philanthropy In Nineteenth Century Britain
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Author : Kevin A. Morrison
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-02-25
Charity And Philanthropy In Nineteenth Century Britain written by Kevin A. Morrison and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-25 with History categories.
From the abolition of the slave trade to the building of the People’s Palace for East London, social causes are inextricably intertwined with the charitable giving and philanthropic impulses on which they rely for tangible support. This volume focuses on individuals who, unlike those documented in volume two, did not have significant financial resources but were nevertheless leading figures in the philanthropic landscape, such as Walter Besant or Edmund Hay Currie. It also focuses on efforts that were not strictly about providing services or support but in advocating for social change as well.
Spirit Flowing Like Water
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Author : Nausikaa Haupt
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2025-06-19
Spirit Flowing Like Water written by Nausikaa Haupt and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-06-19 with Religion categories.
What if churches focused less on wanting other Christian traditions to become more like theirs, and more on exploring what they might learn from them? Might this not only help churches to deepen faith, mission, and service, but also revitalize the ecumenical landscape with new possibilities? This is the provocative and inspiring vision presented by Receptive Ecumenism, a movement which has crossed denominations and continents, engaging church leaders, ecumenists, scholars, and Christians in their everyday lives. Spirit Flowing Like Water presents the latest conversations in this field. It not only engages leading scholars and practitioners of Receptive Ecumenism between churches but also explores the possibility of learning from difference within a church community—“Internal Receptive Ecumenism”—and adapting the approach to a wider ecumenism beyond the visible church. Church leaders, ecumenists, and theologians from five continents have contributed chapters on transforming ecumenism, practicing mission in context, and broadening the horizon. They write not only for those already engaged in ecumenical work but with an invitation to all communities, leaders, and individuals to take a fresh look at what walking together in Christ means in our polarized world.
Advanced Introduction To Federalism
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Author : Alain -G. Gagnon
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-12
Advanced Introduction To Federalism written by Alain -G. Gagnon and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-12 with Political Science categories.
This timely Advanced Introduction explores federalism as a subject of intellectual inquiry, discussion and debate. Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay examine the role federalism can play in achieving fairness, justice and equality, as well as the impact it can have on the survival of political systems.
Teaching Medieval And Early Modern Cross Cultural Encounters
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Author : K. Attar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-17
Teaching Medieval And Early Modern Cross Cultural Encounters written by K. Attar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.
Animal Encounters
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Author : Susan Crane
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-11-29
Animal Encounters written by Susan Crane and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to give it up again in order to save the life of his warhorse. Readers have often taken such encounters to be merely figurative or fanciful, but Susan Crane discovers that these scenes of interaction are firmly grounded in the intimate cohabitation with animals that characterized every medieval milieu from palace to village. The animal encounters of medieval literature reveal their full meaning only when we recover the living animal's place within the written animal. The grip of a certain humanism was strong in medieval Britain, as it is today: the humanism that conceives animals in diametrical opposition to humankind. Yet medieval writing was far from univocal in this regard. Latin and vernacular works abound in other ways of thinking about animals that invite the saint, the scholar, and the knight to explore how bodies and minds interpenetrate across species lines. Crane brings these other ways of thinking to light in her readings of the beast fable, the hunting treatise, the saint's life, the bestiary, and other genres. Her substantial contribution to the field of animal studies investigates how animals and people interact in culture making, how conceiving the animal is integral to conceiving the human, and how cross-species encounters transform both their animal and their human participants.
Encountering Islam On The First Crusade
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Author : Nicholas Morton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-14
Encountering Islam On The First Crusade written by Nicholas Morton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with History categories.
A fundamental reassessment of Christian/Islamic relations during the First Crusade, combating its representation as an inter-faith clash of civilizations.
Body Self Other
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Author : Luna Dolezal
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2017-07-25
Body Self Other written by Luna Dolezal and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-25 with Philosophy categories.
Body/Self/Other brings together a variety of phenomenological perspectives to examine the complexity of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materiality of social encounters and the habitual attitudes that structure lived experience. In particular, the contributors examine how constructions of race, gender, sexuality, criminality, and medicalized forms of subjectivity affect perception and social interaction. Grounded in practical, everyday experiences, this book provides a theoretical framework that considers the extent to which fundamental ethical obligations arise from the fact of individuals' intercorporeality and sociality.