The Gift Of Ethics
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The Gift Of Ethics
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Author : Trevor George Hunsberger Bechtel
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-11-10
The Gift Of Ethics written by Trevor George Hunsberger Bechtel 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 2014-11-10 with Religion categories.
Structured on the Beatitudes, The Gift of Ethics is a short, readable introduction to the major ideas in Christian ethics. Bechtel engages the reader through stories to draw out reflection on the good life.
The Logic Of The Gift
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Author : Alan D. Schrift
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-01
The Logic Of The Gift written by Alan D. Schrift and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
The theme of the gift can be located at the center of current discussions of deconstruction, gender and feminist theory, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, and economics: it is, simply, one of the primary focal points at which contemporary interdisciplinary discourses intersect. Into this context comes a new, indispensable volume. The Logic of the Gift offers several important essays on gifts and gift-giving that are often referred to but seldom read, and adds to them new essays written especially for this collection.
Suspicious Gifts
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Author : Malin Akerstrom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Suspicious Gifts written by Malin Akerstrom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Gifts have been given and received in all eras and societies; gifts are part of a universal human exchange. The importance of creating and sustaining social bonds with the help of gifts is widely acknowledged by social scientists, not only from anthropological but also from economic, sociological, and political science perspectives. Contemporary anti-corruption campaigns, however, have led gifts to be viewed with ever-increasing suspicion, because it is feared that the social bonds created by gift giving may contaminate professional decision-making. Suspicious Gifts investigates the sensitive issue of gift exchanges and how they become an object of contention. Malin akerstro;m considers the moral dilemmas presented by bribes and gift giving as experienced by Swedish aid workers and professionals working in the public sector, business, and adoption agencies. She also deals with professionals' interaction with foreign officials or contractors. Often a gift is just that, although sometimes the gift giving may be seen by others as a bribe. akerstro;m highlights the tensions between strict regulations designed to prevent corruption with the human affection for the institution of gift giving. She argues that bribes and gifts are important social phenomena because they are windows into classic sociological and anthropological research issues concerning interaction, social control, exchange, and rituals. This unique analysis will be of keen interest to all sociologists, public officials, and professionals.
The Gift Of Life
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Author : Thomas M. Blok
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Gift Of Life written by Thomas M. Blok and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Christian ethics categories.
Receiving The Gift Of Friendship
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Author : Hans S. Reinders
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2008-04-14
Receiving The Gift Of Friendship written by Hans S. Reinders and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-14 with Family & Relationships categories.
Does what we are capable of doing define us as human beings? If this basic anthropological assumption is true, where can that leave those with intellectual disabilities, unable to accomplish the things that we propose give us our very humanity? Hans Reinders here makes an unusual claim about unusual people: those who are profoundly disabled are people just like the rest of us. He acknowledges that, at first glance, this is not an unusual claim given the steps taken within the last few decades to bring the rights of those with disabilities into line with the rights of the mainstream. But, he argues, that cannot be the end of the matter, because the disabled are human beings before they are citizens. "To live a human life properly," he says, "they must not only be included in our institutions and have access to our public spaces; they must also be included in other people's lives, not just by natural necessity but by choice." Receiving the Gift of Friendship consists of three parts: (1) Profound Disability, (2) Theology, and (3) Ethics. Overturning the "commonsense" view of human beings, Reinders's argument for a paradigm shift in our relation to people with disabilities is founded on a groundbreaking philosophical-theological consideration of humanity and of our basic human commonality. Moreover, Reinders gives his study human vividness and warmth with stories of the profoundly disabled from his own life and from the work of Jean Vanier and Henri Nouwen in L'Arche communities.
The Gift
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Author : Aafke E. Komter
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 1996
The Gift written by Aafke E. Komter and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.
What moves us to give gifts to other people? The Gift brings together perspectives on gift exchange and reciprocity from different social scientific disciplines. The first part of this book contains anthropological and sociological 'classics' on gift giving and reciprocity. In the second part the focus is on social psychological theories, and on empirical research on gift giving in Western society. Finally, the main concepts underlying gift exchange - reciprocity, self-interest and altruism - are discussed. Here, the focus is on fundamental assumptions about human nature. Altruism and self-interest turn out to be much more interwoven than we are inclined to think.
Gift And Economy
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Author : Eric R. Severson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-22
Gift And Economy written by Eric R. Severson and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-22 with Philosophy categories.
Is it possible to really give a gift? This may, at first glance, seem like a peripheral question for philosophy, which normally directs its attention to seemingly bigger questions. The dynamics of the gift move into philosophy from anthropology and sociology, but Jacques Derrida insists that this question belongs at the heart of philosophy. This volume takes up Derrida’s challenge to invest in the question of a gift, and the relationship between gift and economy. The powerful and corruptive forces of economy can wreak havoc on every effort to give or receive a pure gift. Each of the essays investigates some aspect of the gift, and the way economics relate to the sheer hospitality and generosity implied in the idea of giving. Is there a blessed economy? Must economics always operate in a sinister and exploitive fashion? What can be learned by the philosophical investigations related to this concept? There is something about the event or idea of the gift that cannot be entirely explained by the machinations of economy. In the giving of a gift something happens, if only unpredictably and rarely, that cannot be explained by the calculus that tracks the exchange of money, property, goods, debt and power. This excess that confounds the reduction of the gift to the dynamics of power and exchange is a source of creative fascination for a wide range of philosophers, including the collection of scholars who have contributed to this book.
The Gifting God
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Author : Stephen H. Webb
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996-04-18
The Gifting God written by Stephen H. Webb and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-18 with Religion categories.
Theories of generosity, or gift giving, are becoming increasingly important in recent work in philosophy and religion. Stephen Webb seeks to build on this renewed interest by surveying a distinctively modern and postmodern approach to the issue of generosity, and then developing a theological framework for it. He contends that in many ways society has become suspicious of charity and generosity. This cynicism has led to quick and easy judgments, that, in turn, have led to a new orthodoxy with its own troubling consequences. Webb believes that we need to recover the generosity that our culture obscures behind this monologue on self-interest, and that theology, as a form of critical thought, can play a helpful role. Throughout the book, Webb argues for a theory of giving that is other-oriented without being self-negating. He maintains that the generosity of God's grace, properly understood, can reorient our own idea of the gift and must be correlated to our own practices of exchange and reciprocity.
The Gift Of Kinds
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Author : Stephen David Ross
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1999-09-16
The Gift Of Kinds written by Stephen David Ross and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-16 with Philosophy categories.
Explores the idea of human and natural kinds, pursuing an ethics of the earth responsive to social, political, and environmental issues.
Gifts Corruption Philanthropy
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Author : Peter Verhezen
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
Gifts Corruption Philanthropy written by Peter Verhezen and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Business & Economics categories.
Explains why gifts are not just moral expressions but function as binding social practices. The first part concerns the concept of the logic of the gift. The second part focuses of practical expression of gift practices in a business context, more particularly, bribery and philanthropy. Author from University of Melbourne, Australia.