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The golden cord a short book on the secular and the sacred / by Taliaferro, Charles

Table of Contents: “…-- Redemption and time -- Eternity in time -- Glory and the hallowing of domestic virtue.…”
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By knowledge & by love charity and knowledge in the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas / by Sherwin, Michael S., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Thomas' theology of faith -- Charity's relationship to knowledge in human action -- Charity's status as a virtue.…”
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A modern legal ethics adversary advocacy in a democratic age / by Markovits, Daniel, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The wellsprings of legal ethics -- The lawyerly vices --The seeds of a lawyerly virtue -- Introducing integrity -- An impartialist rejoinder? …”
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An age of progress? clashing twentieth-century global forces / by Moss, Walter

Table of Contents: “…A century of violence -- Science, technology, and the acceleration of change -- Capitalism, socialism, and communism -- Imperialism, nationalism, and globalization -- Freedom and human rights -- Changing environments -- Culture and social criticism -- Values and virtues -- An age of progress.…”
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Selections from three works / by Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617

Table of Contents: “…Note on translation (from the Carnegie edition) -- Note on this edition -- A treatise on laws and God the lawgiver -- A defence of the Catholic and apostolic faith -- A work on the three theological virtues : faith, hope, and charity.…”
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A modern legal ethics adversary advocacy in a democratic age / by Markovits, Daniel, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The wellsprings of legal ethics -- The lawyerly vices --The seeds of a lawyerly virtue -- Introducing integrity -- An impartialist rejoinder? …”
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An age of progress? clashing twentieth-century global forces / by Moss, Walter

Table of Contents: “…A century of violence -- Science, technology, and the acceleration of change -- Capitalism, socialism, and communism -- Imperialism, nationalism, and globalization -- Freedom and human rights -- Changing environments -- Culture and social criticism -- Values and virtues -- An age of progress.…”
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Selections from three works / by Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617

Table of Contents: “…Note on translation (from the Carnegie edition) -- Note on this edition -- A treatise on laws and God the lawgiver -- A defence of the Catholic and apostolic faith -- A work on the three theological virtues : faith, hope, and charity.…”
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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations / by Warner, John M. (John Martin), 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Rousseau's theory of human relations -- Social longing and moral perfection -- Pity and human weakness -- Romantic love in Emile -- Romantic love in Julie -- Friendship, virtue, and moral authority -- The ecology of justice -- The sociology of wholeness.…”
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Rousseau and the Problem of Human Relations / by Warner, John M. (John Martin), 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Rousseau's theory of human relations -- Social longing and moral perfection -- Pity and human weakness -- Romantic love in Emile -- Romantic love in Julie -- Friendship, virtue, and moral authority -- The ecology of justice -- The sociology of wholeness.…”
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Outside ethics by Geuss, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Liberalism and its discontents -- Neither history nor praxis -- Outside ethics -- Freedom as an ideal -- Virtue and the good life -- Happiness and politics -- Suffering and knowledge in Adorno -- On the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusions -- Genealogy as critique -- Art and criticism in Adorno's aesthetics -- Poetry and knowledge -- Plato, romanticism, and thereafter -- Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams -- Adorno's gaps.…”
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The Bodhisattva's brain Buddhism naturalized / by Flanagan, Owen J.

Table of Contents: “…Buddhist persons -- Being no-self & being nice -- Virtue & happiness -- Postscript : cosmopolitanism and comparative philosophy.…”
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Outside ethics by Geuss, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Liberalism and its discontents -- Neither history nor praxis -- Outside ethics -- Freedom as an ideal -- Virtue and the good life -- Happiness and politics -- Suffering and knowledge in Adorno -- On the usefulness and uselessness of religious illusions -- Genealogy as critique -- Art and criticism in Adorno's aesthetics -- Poetry and knowledge -- Plato, romanticism, and thereafter -- Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams -- Adorno's gaps.…”
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The Bodhisattva's brain Buddhism naturalized / by Flanagan, Owen J.

Table of Contents: “…Buddhist persons -- Being no-self & being nice -- Virtue & happiness -- Postscript : cosmopolitanism and comparative philosophy.…”
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Political hypocrisy the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond / by Runciman, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hobbes and the mask of power -- Mandeville and the virtues of vice -- The American Revolution and the art of sincerity -- Bentham and the utility of fiction -- Victorian democracy and Victorian hypocrisy -- Orwell and the hypocrisy of ideology -- Conclusion: Sincerity and hypocrisy in democratic politics.…”
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Political hypocrisy the mask of power, from Hobbes to Orwell and beyond / by Runciman, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hobbes and the mask of power -- Mandeville and the virtues of vice -- The American Revolution and the art of sincerity -- Bentham and the utility of fiction -- Victorian democracy and Victorian hypocrisy -- Orwell and the hypocrisy of ideology -- Conclusion: Sincerity and hypocrisy in democratic politics.…”
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Principles of biomedical ethics / by Beauchamp, Tom L.

Table of Contents: “…Moral Character </strong> -- The Concept of Moral Virtue -- Virtues in Professional Roles -- The Virtue of Caring -- Five Focal Virtues -- Moral Ideals -- Moral Excellence -- <strong>3. …”

Principles of biomedical ethics / by Beauchamp, Tom L.

Table of Contents: “…Moral Character </strong> -- The Concept of Moral Virtue -- Virtues in Professional Roles -- The Virtue of Caring -- Five Focal Virtues -- Moral Ideals -- Moral Excellence -- <strong>3. …”

The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser by Morgan, Gerald, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales -- Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales -- A defence of Dorigen's complaint -- The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner -- Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues -- The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene -- The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.…”
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The shaping of English poetry ; essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Langland, Chaucer, and Spenser by Morgan, Gerald, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The significance of the pentangle symbolism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The action of the hunting and bedroom scenes in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The meaning of kind wit, conscience and reason in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- Langland's conception of favel, guile, liar and false in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The status and meaning of meed in the first vision of Piers Plowman -- The universality of the portraits in the general prologue to the Canterbury tales -- Rhetorical perspectives in the general prologue to the Ganterbury tales -- A defence of Dorigen's complaint -- The self-revealing tendencies of Chaucer's pardoner -- Holiness as the first of Spenser's Aristotelian moral virtues -- The idea of temperance in the second book of The faerie queene -- The meaning of Spenser's chastity as the fairest of virtues.…”
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