In low-income U.S. cities, street fights between teenage girls are common. These fights take place at school, on street corners, or in parks, when one girl provokes another to the point that she must either "step up" or be labeled a "punk." Typically, when girls engage in violen…
"We eat, inevitably, at the expense of other living creatures. How can we take the lives of plants and animals while maintaining a proper respect for both ecosystems and the individuals who live in them - including ourselves? In this book philosopher J. Claude Evans challenges m…
Utilizando numerosas analogías con el lenguaje de la música, el autor investiga el desarrollo de la autoestima en una sociedad desigual, cómo esa autoestima debe estar equilibrada con los sentimientos hacia los demás, y cómo el respeto mutuo puede forjar vínculos por encima de l…
"Some goods that we generate for others, as when we give them attention or help or encouragement, require us to provide that benefit under the actual circumstances where we interact. Other goods that we generate require not just that we actually provide that sort of benefit but …
First published by Oxford University Press in 2001, this new edition of Reverence is revised and expanded. It contains a new preface, two new chapters -- one on the sacred and one on compassion -- and an epilogue focusedon renewing reverence in our own lives.
Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher and classicist Paul Woodruf…
First published by Oxford University Press in 2001, this new edition of Reverence is revised and expanded. It contains a new preface, two new chapters -- one on the sacred and one on compassion -- and an epilogue focused on renewing reverence in our own lives.
