Author: Stuart Hampshire
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780674454484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Human beings have lived by very different conceptions of the good life. In this book, Stuart Hampshire argues that no individual and no modern society can avoid conflicts between incompatible moral interests. Philosophers have tried in the past to find some underlying moral idea of justice which could resolve these conflicts and would be valid for any society. Hampshire claims that there can be no such thing. States can be held together, and war between them avoided, only by respect for the political process itself, and it is in these terms that justice must be defined. The book closely examines the critical relationship between morality and justice, paying particular attention to Hume's moral subjectivism (which Hampshire disputes) and proposing a reply to Machiavelli's claim that the realities of politics inevitably oblige leaders to choose between unavoidable evils. Most academic and moral philosophy, Hampshire argues, has been a fairy tale, representing ideals of private innocence rather than the realities of public experience. Conflicts between incompatible moral interests are as unavoidable in social and international arenas as they are in the lives of individuals. Philosophers, politicians, and theologians have all looked for an underlying moral consensus that will be valid for any just society. But the diversity of the human species and important differences in how various cultures define the good life militate against the formation of any such consensus. Ultimately, conflicts can be mediated only by respect for procedural justice. Hampshire believes that themes of moral philosophy come from the writer's own experience, and he has given a brief but compelling account of his own life to help the reader understand the sources of his philosophy. Combining intellectual rigor with imaginative power, in Innocence and Experience Stuart Hampshire vividly illuminates the tensions between justice and other sources of value in society and in the life of the individual.
Author: Simmons College (Boston, Mass.). Center for the Study of Children's Literature
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eva Figes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2003-04-02
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1582342598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The novelist offers a memoir of her childhood, discussing her grandmother, her special relationship with fairy tales, and her flight from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Author: Magdalena Grabias-Zurek
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-07-26
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1443850950
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Songs of Innocence and Experience: Romance in the Cinema of Frank Capra is a study of the director’s chosen movies from the perspective of three types of comedies: paradisal, purgatorial and infernal, as assigned by Dante in his Divine Comedy. Magdalena Grabias views Capra’s films in two broader categories of “innocence” and “experience,” where “innocence” represents Dantean paradisal level, and “experience” combines the levels of purgatory and inferno. Such a division constitutes the means to interpret Capra’s filmic universe and to describe the ever-evolving directorial vision of Frank Capra. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate how, in the light of the theory of literary romance as presented by Northrop Frye in his seminal works concerning the subject, the films of Frank Capra fit into the genre of romance. Romantic elements in Frank Capra’s movies can be found in both “innocence” and “experience” categories and, hence, consequently in his paradisal, purgatorial and infernal comedies. However, in both categories, and all three comedy types, the romantic reality of each examined film is structured and developed in a different manner. The book offers an insight into Frank Capra’s films and the complex process of creating his multidimensional romantic universe within them.
Author: Nancy Willard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780152938222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests and residents, human and animal, at William Blake's inn.
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1971-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780486227641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Blake's original color plates are faithfully reproduced in this illuminated edition of his early poems
Author: Baldeep Pooni
Publisher: Mountain Arbor Press
Published: 2021-09-28
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781665302517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is innocence? Innocence is there Everywhere Perhaps it is the deepest depths Perhaps it is a recollection of existence Perhaps it is change Perhaps it is the essence ABOUT INNOCENCE A collection of poems, essays, and short stories that introduce the concept of innocence as a subjective and objective experience that is connected to a state where emotions run wild & free. A trance that never fades away. A vibe that ushers forth emotional intuition. innocence is the essence of who we are before, during, and after our interaction with the world and its numerous vortexes. innocence is the vulnerable part of ourselves that is a constant just like the experience of change. Everything changes in life except for change & innocence. In every eon, there is Deep that shines darkness and light back into the prism that is our existence. Can anything be authored in a transient existence? I guess so.
Author: Sarah Haggarty
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-11-28
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1350308919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book - Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates - Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art' Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.