Ethics (Serapis Classics)

Ethics (Serapis Classics)

Author: John Dewey

Publisher: Serapis Classics

Published: 2017-10-07

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 3962558721

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The significance of this text in Ethics lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of reflective thought in dealing with them. To this purpose are subordinated the presentation in Part I. of historic material; the discussion in Part II. of the different types of theoretical interpretation, and the consideration, in Part III., of some typical social and economic problems which characterize the present. Experience shows that the student of morals has difficulty in getting the field objectively and definitely before him so that its problems strike him as real problems. Conduct is so intimate that it is not easy to analyze. It is so important that to a large extent the perspective for regarding it has been unconsciously fixed by early training. The historical method of approach has proved in the classroom experience of the authors an effective method of meeting these difficulties. To follow the moral life through typical epochs of its development enables students to realize what is involved in their own habitual standpoints; it also presents a concrete body of subject-matter which serves as material of analysis and discussion.


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Download or read book Ethics (Serapis Classics) written by John Dewey and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of this text in Ethics lies in its effort to awaken a vital conviction of the genuine reality of moral problems and the value of reflective thought in dealing with them. To this purpose are subordinated the presentation in Part I. of historic material; the discussion in Part II. of the different types of theoretical interpretation, and the consideration, in Part III., of some typical social and economic problems which characterize the present. Experience shows that the student of morals has difficulty in getting the field objectively and definitely before him so that its problems strike him as real problems. Conduct is so intimate that it is not easy to analyze. It is so important that to a large extent the perspective for regarding it has been unconsciously fixed by early training. The historical method of approach has proved in the classroom experience of the authors an effective method of meeting these difficulties. To follow the moral life through typical epochs of its development enables students to realize what is involved in their own habitual standpoints; it also presents a concrete body of subject-matter which serves as material of analysis and discussion.

Human Nature and Conduct (Serapis Classics)

Human Nature and Conduct (Serapis Classics)

Author: John Dewey

Publisher: Serapis Classics

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 3962559264

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John Dewey (1859-1952) is an American philosopher and psychologist most notably remembered for his theories on progressive education. He grew up in the rapidly industrializing town of Burlington, Vermont, where he was able to witness increasing social and economic division of the classes. Although he displayed little vivacity or imagination as a child, he was immensely analytical and spent years teaching and writing on a wide range of philosophical ideas. Of his twenty-one books and countless articles, "Human Nature and Conduct" is one of his best-known; it draws from Dewey's West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University. This work criticizes the morality of the past as being too abstract and reliant on arbitrary rules rather than on a scientific understanding of human nature. Dewey argues that truth changes over time, and therefore life must be based on human experiences and utilizing one's knowledge in coping with those experiences.


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Download or read book Human Nature and Conduct (Serapis Classics) written by John Dewey and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dewey (1859-1952) is an American philosopher and psychologist most notably remembered for his theories on progressive education. He grew up in the rapidly industrializing town of Burlington, Vermont, where he was able to witness increasing social and economic division of the classes. Although he displayed little vivacity or imagination as a child, he was immensely analytical and spent years teaching and writing on a wide range of philosophical ideas. Of his twenty-one books and countless articles, "Human Nature and Conduct" is one of his best-known; it draws from Dewey's West Memorial Foundation lectures at Stanford University. This work criticizes the morality of the past as being too abstract and reliant on arbitrary rules rather than on a scientific understanding of human nature. Dewey argues that truth changes over time, and therefore life must be based on human experiences and utilizing one's knowledge in coping with those experiences.

Tales of South Africa (Serapis Classics)

Tales of South Africa (Serapis Classics)

Author: H. A. Bryden

Publisher: Serapis Classics

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 396255971X

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It was not until my second season's hunting with Koenraad du Plessis that I heard of Verloren Vlei, a place I am never likely to forget. Du Plessis was a Transvaal Boer, descended, as his name implies, from that good Huguenot stock which, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, made its way to the Cape to replenish the Dutch settlers. The French language quickly died out in South Africa, mainly from a stern repression; yet here and there, all over that vast land, you may see at this day, in the strong and stubborn Boer breed, plain traces of the French admixture. Du Plessis bore about him very certain indications of his ancestry. He was shortish for a Boer, very dark of complexion, keen-eyed, merry, alert, vigorous and active as a cat. Nineteen years ago, the north and east of the Transvaal, and the countries just across the border, were wild and little-known lands, still teeming with game. I was wandering through this region, hunting and exploring. The gold-fever had recently broken out, and as I understood something of mining and geology, I put in a good deal of prospecting as well. It was a vagrant, delightful existence, and I thoroughly enjoyed it...


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Download or read book Tales of South Africa (Serapis Classics) written by H. A. Bryden and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not until my second season's hunting with Koenraad du Plessis that I heard of Verloren Vlei, a place I am never likely to forget. Du Plessis was a Transvaal Boer, descended, as his name implies, from that good Huguenot stock which, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, made its way to the Cape to replenish the Dutch settlers. The French language quickly died out in South Africa, mainly from a stern repression; yet here and there, all over that vast land, you may see at this day, in the strong and stubborn Boer breed, plain traces of the French admixture. Du Plessis bore about him very certain indications of his ancestry. He was shortish for a Boer, very dark of complexion, keen-eyed, merry, alert, vigorous and active as a cat. Nineteen years ago, the north and east of the Transvaal, and the countries just across the border, were wild and little-known lands, still teeming with game. I was wandering through this region, hunting and exploring. The gold-fever had recently broken out, and as I understood something of mining and geology, I put in a good deal of prospecting as well. It was a vagrant, delightful existence, and I thoroughly enjoyed it...

The Essential Spinoza

The Essential Spinoza

Author: Baruch Spinoza

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2006-03-15

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1624661971

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Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics, together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs--thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it.


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Download or read book The Essential Spinoza written by Baruch Spinoza and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key themes; and Citations in Proofs, a list of all the propositions, corollaries, and scholia in the Ethics, together with all the definitions, axioms, propositions, corollaries, and scholia to which Spinoza refers in the proofs--thus, readers can locate, for a given item, each instance where Spinoza refers to it.

The Classical Moralists

The Classical Moralists

Author: Benjamin Rand

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13:

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Tales of the Argonauts (Serapis Classics)

Tales of the Argonauts (Serapis Classics)

Author: Bret Harte

Publisher: Serapis Classics

Published: 2017-11-12

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 3963134593

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The Argonauts are the gold seekers of 1849 and the years immediately following. These adventurers came from all quarters of the globe and all ranks of society, and they had in common only the possession of the strength and determination necessary to reach the new Colchis. Here they lived, at first, wholly free from the conventional restraints imposed by an organized society, and each man showed himself for what he was. Many of these primitive social conditions still existed when Harte went to California in 1854, and they made a great impression on the observant boy. He did not use them in literature, however, until he was able to look back on them in the light of experience.


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Download or read book Tales of the Argonauts (Serapis Classics) written by Bret Harte and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Argonauts are the gold seekers of 1849 and the years immediately following. These adventurers came from all quarters of the globe and all ranks of society, and they had in common only the possession of the strength and determination necessary to reach the new Colchis. Here they lived, at first, wholly free from the conventional restraints imposed by an organized society, and each man showed himself for what he was. Many of these primitive social conditions still existed when Harte went to California in 1854, and they made a great impression on the observant boy. He did not use them in literature, however, until he was able to look back on them in the light of experience.

The Age of Shakespeare (Serapis Classics)

The Age of Shakespeare (Serapis Classics)

Author: Algernon Swinburne

Publisher: Serapis Classics

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 396313013X

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The first great English poet was the father of English tragedy and the creator of English blank verse. Chaucer and Spenser were great writers and great men: they shared between them every gift which goes to the making of a poet except the one which alone can make a poet, in the proper sense of the word, great. Neither pathos nor humor nor fancy nor invention will suffice for that: no poet is great as a poet whom no one could ever pretend to recognize as sublime. Sublimity is the test of imagination as distinguished from invention or from fancy: and the first English poet whose powers can be called sublime was Christopher Marlowe...


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Download or read book The Age of Shakespeare (Serapis Classics) written by Algernon Swinburne and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first great English poet was the father of English tragedy and the creator of English blank verse. Chaucer and Spenser were great writers and great men: they shared between them every gift which goes to the making of a poet except the one which alone can make a poet, in the proper sense of the word, great. Neither pathos nor humor nor fancy nor invention will suffice for that: no poet is great as a poet whom no one could ever pretend to recognize as sublime. Sublimity is the test of imagination as distinguished from invention or from fancy: and the first English poet whose powers can be called sublime was Christopher Marlowe...

Ethics

Ethics

Author: Oliver A. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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Why Men Fight (Serapis Classics)

Why Men Fight (Serapis Classics)

Author: Bertrand Russell

Publisher: Serapis Classics

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 396255856X

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Written in response to the devastation of World War I, "Why Men Fight" lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. Russell argues that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desire for war or killing. Conversely, excessive restraint or reason causes us to live unnaturally and with hostility toward those who are unlike ourselves.


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Download or read book Why Men Fight (Serapis Classics) written by Bertrand Russell and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in response to the devastation of World War I, "Why Men Fight" lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. Russell argues that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desire for war or killing. Conversely, excessive restraint or reason causes us to live unnaturally and with hostility toward those who are unlike ourselves.

Ethics

Ethics

Author: Gordon Daniel Marino

Publisher: Random House of Canada

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 9780812977783

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An anthology representing 2,500 years of thought covers a broad range of topics from justice, morality, and faith to animal rights and gender issues and includes writings from such classic and contemporary thinkers as Plato, Kant, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer.


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Download or read book Ethics written by Gordon Daniel Marino and published by Random House of Canada. This book was released on 2010 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology representing 2,500 years of thought covers a broad range of topics from justice, morality, and faith to animal rights and gender issues and includes writings from such classic and contemporary thinkers as Plato, Kant, Susan Wolf, and Peter Singer.