The Superior Person's Book of Words

The Superior Person's Book of Words
Author: Peter Bowler
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1985
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780879235567

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This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.

Reasons and Persons

Reasons and Persons
Author: Derek Parfit
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 880
Release: 1986-01-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191622443

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons

Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons
Author: P. Murray
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1996-05-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230376754

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Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons. A new reading of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviourism brings out how - contrary to the impression he created - Skinner ascribes an important role in human behaviour to cognitive activity. Using this analysis, Peter Murray demonstrates the consistency of radical behaviourism with the psychology of character formation and acting in writers from Plato to Shakespeare - an approach little explored in the current debates about subjectivity in Elizabethan culture. Murray also shows that radical behaviourism can explain the phenomena observed in modern studies of acting and social role-playing. Drawing on these analyses of earlier and modern psychology, Murray goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal, Rosalind, and Perdita in a fascinating new light.

Persons and Valuable Worlds

Persons and Valuable Worlds
Author: Eliot Deutsch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780742512153

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Convinced that the crisis in contemporary Western philosophy rises from the sundering of moral or value considerations from notions of rationality and the nature of reality, Deutsch (philosophy, U. of Hawai'i) advocates a kind of pluralistic but not relativistic philosophical anthropology, ontology, ethics, and epistemology in a cross-cultural context. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Animals as Persons

Animals as Persons
Author: Gary Lawrence Francione
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231139500

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Gary L. Francione explains our historical and contemporary attitudes about animals by distinguishing the issue of animal use from that of animal treatment. He then presents a theory of animal rights that focuses on the need to accord all sentient nonhumans the right not to be treated as property.

Identity Construction and Illness Narratives in Persons with Disabilities

Identity Construction and Illness Narratives in Persons with Disabilities
Author: Chalotte Glintborg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2020-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000171620

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This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there is a risk that this label can become the primary status both for the person diagnosed as well as for their family. This reification of the diagnosis can be oppressive because it subjugates humanity in such a way that everything a person does can be interpreted as linked to their disability. Drawing on narrative approaches to identity in psychology and social sciences, the bio-psycho-social model and a holistic approach to disabilities, the chapters in this book understand disability as constructed in discourse, as negotiated among speaking subjects in social contexts, and as emergent. By doing so, they amplify voices that may have otherwise remained silent and use storytelling as a way of communicating the participants' realities to provide a more in-depth understanding of their point of view. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, medical humanities, disability research methods, narrative theory, and rehabilitation studies.

Every Person's Guide to Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah

Every Person's Guide to Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah
Author: Ronald H. Isaacs
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780765760456

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