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Free Download The Two Wings of Catholic Thought: Essays on Fides et Ratio By David Ruel Foster (editor), Joseph W. Koterski (editor)
2002 | 249 Pages | ISBN: 0813213029 | PDF | 1 MB
John Paul’s choice to yoke faith and reason together in an encyclical on the twin sources of knowledge caught the world’s attention. By stressing ‘the two wings’ of Catholic thought, the pope captures in the lively image of a soaring bird the same point that theologians like von Balthasar communicate by calling truth symphonic. The beauty of this symphony, like the flight of the bird, is even better appreciated when one has studied the component parts. Knowing the various components only increases our wonder when we hear the music or see the bird take flight. The purpose of this volume is to deepen the appreciation for the stereophonic approach to truth that the Holy Father recommends. The essays are in three sections: (1) doctrinal themes, (2) contemporary implications, and (3) historical aspects. In the first, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., discusses the twentieth-century answers to a question that has long haunted Christians who felt the attraction of pagan philosophy: Can philosophy be Christian? Prudence Allen, R.S.M., and Joseph Koterski, S.J., then treat two philosophical topics that have been the most affected by centuries of contact with the Christian faith: the philosophy of the person and metaphysics. David Meconi, S.J., reflects on the Marian framework that is so typical of Pope John Paul II’s thought. In the second section, Bishop Allen Vigneron considers the significance of this encyclical for Catholic intellectual life today. David Foster discusses the implications of Fides et ratio for Catholic universities. In the final section, Koterski reviews the importance of biblical wisdom literature for the encyclical. Michael Sweeney and Timothy Quinn treat medieval philosophy and modern philosophy respectively. Finally Cardinal Dulles considers the Church pronouncements on faith and reason from Vatican I to John Paul II.

Free Download The Texture of Being: Essays in First Philosophy By Kenneth Schmitz, Paul O’Herron (editor)
2007 | 327 Pages | ISBN: 0813214688 | PDF | 1 MB
Kenneth Schmitz has spent an illustrious career as a philosopher striving to unite what Hegel called the "being of the ancients"―their deep engagement with metaphysics―to "the subjectivity of the moderns"―the modern concern with the interior life and historical particularity of human beings. Schmitz has sought to show how these concerns are two aspects of one "single philosophical life" which, far from being a pointless exercise, reflects an intellectually and spiritually fruitful human existence. In this volume, Schmitz brings his encyclopedic knowledge of the Western philosophical tradition to bear in a wide-ranging series of essays grouped under three headings: Being, Man, and God. He brings disparate philosophical traditions into conversation, such as classical Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics, the modern critical rationalism of Kant, the idealist synthesis of Hegel, the postmodern deconstructionism of Derrida and Foucault, and the personalist phenomenology of Scheler, Von Hildebrand, and Wojtyla. Schmitz explores re-situating classical metaphysics, with its confidence in the human ability to reach speculative truth, into a post-Enlightenment world that rejects the possibility, yet which values human interior richness. Schmitz believes, for instance, that we can have meaningful discourse about God’s existence and about the role of beauty in helping us recognize that being is a gift received. Diverse in topics yet unified in purpose, this volume brings together Schmitz’s penetrating and rich insight into being, produced over many years, to offer readers a magisterial study from one of the great Christian philosophers of our time.

Free Download Marc F. Plattner, "Human Rights in Our Time: Essays in Memory of Victor Baras"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367020025, 0367169894 | EPUB | pages: 146 | 0.3 mb
In the past decade, human rights as a component of U.S. foreign policy has been the subject of intense debate. First brought to the forefront by President Carter, it has also turned out to be one of the most controversial aspects of foreign policy during the Reagan administration. Policymakers who attempt to cope with human rights issues are immediately confronted with questions not only about the basic purposes of U.S. foreign policy, but also about the essential nature of our political system; they are compelled to reflect upon the interrelationship between domestic public opinion and the pursuit of U.S. interests abroad. The complexity of human rights issues is reflected in the diverse contributions to this book. The authors examine the philosophical foundations of human rights, the lessons of history that are relevant to today’s concerns, and contemporary policy. A concluding essay provides a critical analysis of the arguments made by the authors.

Free Download Peter Jones, "Essays on Toleration"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1785522639, 1785522922 | EPUB | pages: 262 | 0.4 mb
The diverse make-up of modern societies has long been a major preoccupation of political philosophy. It has also been a prominent focus for public policy. How should a society provide for the differences exhibited by its population? Should it view them with indifference, or seek to diminish them in the interest of social cohesion, or view them as positive goods that it should facilitate or promote? The answer cannot be simple, partly because the differences captured by the terms ‘difference’ or ‘diversity’ are themselves so diverse.

Free Download Nancy L. Stein, Patricia J. Bauer, Mitchell Rabinowitz, "Representation, Memory, and Development: Essays in Honor of Jean Mandler"
English | 2002 | pages: 297 | ISBN: 0805841962 | PDF | 21,3 mb
A festschrift to honor Jean Mandler, this volume contains contributions from leading scholars focusing on the child’s development of memory, visual representation, and language. It is appropriate for students and researchers in cognitive psychology, language acquisition, and memory.

Free Download Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson by Charlie Louth, Patrick McGuinness
English | August 30, 2021 | ISBN: 1781887888 | 240 pages | PDF | 6.62 Mb
Gravity and grace are spiritual terms, but they can also offer us a way to think about literature. Grace may mean not only the felicity and ease – what Schiller refers to as the ‘mobile beauty’ – inhabiting certain works of art, but also the sense of something given, or about to be given, by a work as we read it: something incalculable, perhaps accidental, but vital and regenerative. Like a promise, this quality also needs gravity, a sense of substance within it. The gracefulness of a dancer relies upon gravity, and the grace of a text depends on the weight of words. These matters are pursued here in essays on subjects ranging from Voltaire to Ali Smith, from Baudelaire to Beckett, not forgetting Mallarmé, and offered to Roger Pearson in honour of the grace and gravity of his own writing.

Free Download Olivier Védrine, "Ideas for a United Europe – Essays by Olivier Védrine"
English | 2011 | ASIN: B0057Y9VKY | EPUB | pages: 100 | 0.2 mb
Ideas for Europe – not asking what is, but what is not, and why. These are the questions of Olivier Védrine. As for professional reasons he holds a permanent dialogue with young people, it is clear that his ideas and questions reach out for young Europeans. What should happen with the institutions in Europe, with Turkey, Russia, with the climate change, with religious freedom and tolerance – this booklet is a firework of ideas. It is completed with some personal impressions of travelling to Ukraine and Azerbaijan. And it clearly underlines what we all have in Europe – more than a technocratic being, but one of a civilization of many hundred years and one of "unity in diversity". Olivier Védrine does not expect to be everyone of his opinion – he wants also to challenge opinions, to challenge European citizens to behave like a citoyen. The author Olivier Védrine lives in Paris/France. He is editor of European Union Foreign Affairs Journal (EUFAJ) where he writes regularly the last article ("Standpoint"), and he works as Professor at the IPAG Business School where he is Director of an MBA programme, at IÉSEG/Université Catholique de Lille, and other universities. The Lecturer of the European Commission (TEAM EUROPE France) is also President of the Collège Atlantique-Oural. Associate Research Fellow at the Chaire de recherche du Canada en politiques étrangère et de défense canadiennes (PEDC) of UQAM (Université de Québec à Montréal).

Free Download Shaun Nichols, "The Architecture of the Imagination: New Essays on Pretence, Possibility, and Fiction"
English | 2006 | pages: 290 | ISBN: 0199275726, 0199275734 | PDF | 1,1 mb
This volume brings together specially written essays by leading researchers on the propositional imagination. This is the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that Holmes has a bad habit or that there are zombies. It plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. The Architecture of the Imagination capitalizes on recent attempts to give a cognitive account of this capacity, extending the theoretical picture and exploring the philosophical implications.

Free Download Peace Museums: Selected Essays by Peter van den Dungen
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 340 Pages | ISBN : 3031592220 | 7.7 MB
This book is the first comprehensive study of the history, nature, and purposes of peace museums, comprising twenty-one essays by a leading authority in the field. It presents a powerful argument for the need for this new kind of museum that informs and inspires visitors that a world of peace and nonviolence is both necessary and possible.

Free Download Essays at the Intersection of Hope and Synchronicity by Connie Ragen Green, Nicole Dean
English | November 30, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BNQSM58L | 313 pages | EPUB | 1.05 Mb
Connie Ragen Green has experienced more in life than most have been exposed to during one lifetime. In Essays at the Intersection of Hope and Synchronicity, she bares her soul and shares the stories, people, and situations that have been and continue to be the fabric of her life