 | | Alice Ramos
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences,
Philosophy
Dynamic Transcendentals:
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective
2012
Addressing contemporary interest in the relationship between
metaphysics and ethics, as well as the significance of beauty for
ethics, Alice Ramos presents an accessible study of the
transcendentals and provides a dynamic rather than static view of
truth, goodness, and beauty. She emphasizes the role played by the
human person in the perfection of the universe, in the return of
all things to their source, and relies on the philosophical and
theological wisdom of Thomas Aquinas as well as contemporary
thinkers such as Jacques Maritain, John Paul II, and others. This
study of the transcendentals helps us to make the connection
between the metaphysical order and the moral order, and also, sheds
light on contemporary culture and moral questions. The book is
divided into three parts, the first of which is focused on the
transcendental of truth. It presents themes in Aristotelian
metaphysics as developed by Aquinas and shows the importance of an
ethics of knowing. The second part focuses on beauty and teleology
and discusses human and divine providence, evil and suffering, the
experience of vulnerability and shame, and the relationship between
the good and glory. The final section considers moral beauty, the
ugliness of vice, and the role of art for human perfection. |
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 | | Pamela Kirk Rappaport
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Theology and
Religious Studies
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,
Selected Writings
2006
Published in the Classics of Western Spirituality series,
the volume offers for the first time a substantial collection of
the religious writings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695)
translated into English. These translations include two plays, 13
poems, two devotional works, one theological treatise and Sor
Juana’s defense of women’s learning, her autobiographical,
Letter to Sor Philotea. The introduction advocates for Sor
Juana’s stature as a major religious writer. |
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 | | Douglas B. Rasmussen
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Philosophy
Rational Man: A Modern
Interpretation of Aristotelian Ethics by Henry B. Veatch
2004
About three years ago, Douglas Rasmussen persuaded Liberty Fund
Press to bring Henry B. Veatch’s modern interpretation and lively
introduction to Aristotle’s ethics, Rational Man, back into print.
Douglas Rasmussen provides a preface and an annotated bibliography
for this volume. (Rational Man was first published in 1962 by
Indiana University Press.) |
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 | | Norms of Liberty: A
Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics
2006
How can we establish a political/legal order that in principle
does not require the human flourishing of any person or group to be
given structured preference over that of any other? Addressing this
question as the central problem of political philosophy, Norms
of Liberty offers a new conceptual foundation for political
liberalism that takes protecting liberty, understood in terms of
individual negative rights, as the primary aim of the
political/legal order. |
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 | | Reading Rasmussen and Den Uyl:
Critical Essays on Norms of Liberty
2009
A collection of interpretive and critical essays by
philosophers
and political scientists which explore central themes in
liberalism and its ethical and metaphysical grounding as developed
in Rasmussen and Den Uyl’s Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis
for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2005). Reading Rasmussen
and Den Uyl contains an omnibus reply essay by Rasmussen and
Den Uyl, “Norms of Liberty: Challenges and
Prospects.”
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 | | Reality, Reason,
and Rights: Essays in Honor of Tibor R. Machan
2011
This is a collection of essays by various well-respected
philosophers dealing with issues raised by the writings of Tibor R.
Machan.
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 | | Normas de Liberdade: uma base
perfecccionista uma politi não-perfeccionista
2012
This book is an edited collection of articles with a global and
interdisciplinary urban focus analyzed through a gendered lens. It
contributes to a school of feminist urban theory by bringing the
analysis of gender to the center of the discourse. This book also
participates in an ongoing dialogue with regard to gender within
the context of urbanism and urbanization. |
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 | | Steve Reichstein
College of Professional Studies,
Core
The Love Temples of
Khajuraho
2008
A unique blend of travel diary and coming-of-age story, The
Love Temples of Khajuraho is filled with observations about the
places, people, societies and situations author Steve Reichstein
encountered
during his yearlong journey around the world in the mid-1960s.
Reflecting the adventurous spirit of that time, Love Temples is
surprising, serious, funny and best of all — entertaining. |
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 | | Nicole R. Rice
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, English
Lay Piety and Religious
Discipline in Middle English Literature
2010
In late-14th-century England, the persistent question of
how to live the best life preoccupied many pious Christians. One
answer was provided by a new genre of prose guides that adapted
professional religious rules and routines for lay audiences. This
study analyzes how the idea of religious discipline was translated
into varied literary forms in an atmosphere of religious change and
controversy. By considering the themes of spiritual discipline,
religious identity and orthodoxy in poets Langland and Chaucer, the
study also brings fresh perspectives to bear on Piers Plowman
and The Canterbury Tales. |
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 | | Ino Rossi, Ed.
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Sociology and Anthropology
Frontiers of Globalization
Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches
2008
Pioneers of globalization research from the fields of sociology,
anthropology, history and international relations present their own
approach to the study of globalization. A “debates and discussion”
section highlights differences and complementarities of the
different approaches. |
|
 | | Jean-Pierre Ruiz
St. John's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Theology
& Religious Studies
Readings from the Edges: The Bible and People on the Move
2011
As a work that violates the ethos of hyperspecialization in
biblical studies, this book considers a range of texts across the
biblical canon that challenges readers to fresh thinking about
people on the move--migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and others.
The book seeks to contribute to the ongoing development of
theological approaches to the complexities of human migration. |
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 | | Marybeth Ruscica
with Carolyn H. Fitzpatrick, Vincent D.
Fitzpatrick
College of Professional Studies, English and
Speech
The Complete Sentence
Workout Book, with Readings, 5th Edition
2004
This revised text is written for basic and developmental writing
students who need a reliable, effective, and accessible workbook of
grammar and punctuation. Because the ability to write clearly and
concisely is an acquired skill, this text aims to help students
gain knowledge and control of their sentences as they develop
writing skills. |
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 | | Fiorentina Russo
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, Language and Literatures
Dante's Search for the
Golden Age
2011
The myth of the Golden Age and all the elements that are
associated with it play a very important role in Dante's scheme to
restore justice to a fallen world. The figure of Saturn, as King of
the Golden Age and as the planet of the contemplatives, symbol of
castration and sterility, loss and exile, struck a responsive chord
in Dante's imagination. The myth of the Golden Age provided him
with a simple and yet wide-ranging structure into which he could
lay out his master plan for humanity. |
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 | | Nerina Rustomji
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, History
The Garden and the Fire:
Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture
2010
Islamic conceptions of heaven and hell began in the seventh
century as an early doctrinal innovation, but by the 12th century,
these notions had evolved into a highly formalized ideal of
perfection. In tracking this transformation, Nerina Rustomji
reveals the distinct material culture and aesthetic vocabulary
Muslims developed to understand heaven and hell and identifies the
communities and strategies of defense that took shape around the
promise of a future world. By employing material culture as a
method of historical inquiry, Rustomji points to the reflections,
discussions and constructions that actively influenced Muslims’
picture of the afterworld, culminating in a distinct religious
aesthetic. |
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