Describes how giving things other than just financial donations--including advice, hope, time, kindness, and attention--can enrich the lives of both the benefactor and the recipients.
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Going beyond the concept of financial donations, an inspirational, common-sense guide argues that the giving of kindness, ideas, advice, time, attention, skills, love, hope, touch, and other essentials can have a profound influence on and can enrich the lives, not only of the re…
A volume which explores in detail Seneca's 'De Beneficiis'. Divided into three sections, it looks at the historical and philosophical context of the work, its relation to Seneca's other texts, and concludes with a detailed synopsis of each book, accompanied by notes in commentar…
Generosity as an alternative : is giving a challenge to the market logic? -- The genealogy of Islamic and Christian ethics : from renunciation and redistribution to interdependence -- The world-historical revolution in ethics : the dismantling of interdependence and the rise of …
Based on several years of fieldwork in Egypt and Turkey, Caring for the Poor tells the stories of charity providers and volunteers. The book also places their stories within the overall development of Islamic ethics. Muslim charity, Tuğal argues, has interacted with Christian an…
The novel follows Harley, the eponymous "man of feeling" and impoverished aristocrat, as he travels from his rural estate to London and back in a reluctant quest for financial advancement and more heartfelt quest for kindred spirits. In addition to presenting a remarkable galler…
"Le constat est maintenant partout : la puissance du fondamentalisme religieux, la montée des populismes de droite comme de gauche, le discrédit de la classe politique, le rejet de la construction européenne, rendent caducs les schémas anciens. En particulier l'idée que la démoc…
"Le constat est maintenant partout : la puissance du fondamentalisme religieux, la montée des populismes de droite comme de gauche, le discrédit de la classe politique, le rejet de la construction européenne, rendent caducs les schémas anciens. En particulier l'idée que la démoc…
