LIBROS DEL AUTOR: howard p kainz

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  • Active and Passive Potency in Thomistic Angelology
    Howard P. Kainz / Howard PKainz
    'A direct textual study of an important sector of St. Thomas is made by H. P. Kainz, ’Actice and Passive Potency’ in Thomistic Angelology. Angelology both explicates and tests some Thomistic principles and also serves projectively to work out problems on human ideals, value, and social ordering.' -Cross Currents'The author first raises the question whether St. Thomas’ treatise ...
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    8,83 €

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Peace
    Howard P. Kainz / Howard PKainz
    'The writers represented are somewhat more diverse than is usual in collections of this sort (they include Dante, Erasmus, Kant, Lorenz, and Rawls). Kainz has helpfully arranged the selections in six categories, each emphasizing a different means of achieving peace (ranging from world government to psychological mechanisms to considerations of justice). The brevity and accessib...
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    15,58 €

  • Ethics in Context
    Howard P. Kainz / Howard PKainz
    Ethics is burdened with an overload of theoretical and practical questions which belong more properly in the sphere of aesthetics, religion, politics, and/or law. This book is concerned with separating what is strictly ethical and what is not. It paves the way for a clear definition of the 'moral good' and also for some final practical conclusions regarding the proper categoriz...
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    12,79 €

  • Democracy East and West
    Howard P. Kainz / Howard PKainz
    A reexamination of democracy, which during the eighteenthcentury Enlightenment seemed to offer a much-desired escape from arbitrary class structures and oppressive governments, but has not proven to be a sure formula or a simple solution. An awareness of the true complexities of democracy requires an understanding of a perennial dialectic residing at the heart of democracy, and...
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    11,19 €