The Many Faces of Virtue is a personable collection of 48 short essays on the virtues, each no longer than six pages. Dr. DeMarco breathes life to the virtues with both historical and living anecdotes from the lives of such as great heroes as Mahatma Gandhi, Helen Keller, Pope John Paul II, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Emily Dickinson.
Focusing on the essence of love, this book explores twenty-eight distinct virtues through engaging stories and philosophical insights. Each virtue is personified by both renowned figures and lesser-known individuals, showcasing their unique expressions of qualities like courage, compassion, and integrity. With a blend of historical and contemporary personalities, the narratives highlight the profound impact of these virtues on human experience. Readers will find inspiration in the diverse examples of determination, humility, and compassion, making it a rich exploration of moral character.
The word “navigate” brings to mind two things. The first involves the presence of difficulties. These difficulties may be alternately described as obstacles, problems, troubles, or dangers, each of which must be overcome. Therefore, intelligence and courage are required. The second is the need for a guide that is external to the navigator. The North Star, the compass, gyroscopes, and maps have served this purpose historically. In a moral context, The Good Book has served this need very well.In the present age, however, many prefer to go on cruise control rather than exert the effort required to navigate through life. The path of least resistance, however, leads to nowhere. The first part of this book warns against traps set by the secular world. There are places we should not enter. It behooves us to avoid unnecessary detours, to be wary of slippery road conditions, poor visibility, and fog patches. It is essential that we see things clearly. The second part advises that we proceed with caution, yield to common sense, and obtain the right of way. We may resume speed when we find the one way along which we can navigate successfully.
How to Flourish in a Fallen World, by Donald DeMarco, engages the reader in an understanding of our common human nature and the problems it faces in a culture that actively pursues, to put it in Saint John Paul II’s terms, a freedom of indifference over a freedom for excellence. Dr. DeMarco’s conclusion is a simple “We can flourish in a fallen world by taking advantage of the many gifts that are available to us while living within the truth of our being.” In a world of complex problems, it is refreshing to know that such a simple solution is available to us – we merely have to live the truth in love, and we’ll find that we restore by so doing mankind to his proper state.
This book deals with a current moral crisis in which confusion reigns. What is needed is a moral compass that points to qualities that are personally fulfilling such as truth, justice, order, harmony, and the proper use of language. The 25 essays present imaginative ways in which the resources latent in the human personality can be mobilized in order to bring about a better world.
Kniha je zbierkou dvadsiatich ôsmich úvah, ktoré otec Milan Bubák predniesol počas pondelkových svätých omší v Univerzitnom pastoračnom centre v Bratislave. Ich cieľom bola systematická formácia vysokoškolskej mládeže na danú tému, v tomto prípade tému Čnosti. Hojná účasť poslucháčov – nielen z radov vysokoškolákov – potvrdila správnosť tejto myšlienky, ale i vysokú úroveň prednášok. Napokon, kniha, ktorú Vám predkladáme, vyšla na podnet spokojných poslucháčov.
Odborné a zároveň čtivé načrtnutí životních osudů a postojů dvaceti tří vlivných myslitelů přibližující jejich abnormální myšlení, s nimiž formovali současnou kulturu smrti. UCTÍVAČI VŮLE - Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ayn Randová EUGENICI A EVOLUCIONISTÉ - Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Ernst Haeckel SVĚTŠTÍ UTOPISTÉ - Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, Judith Jarvis Thomsonová ATEISTIČTÍ EXISTENCIALISTÉ - Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoirová, Elisabeth Badinterová VYZNAVAČI SLASTI - Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Helen Gurley Brownová SEXUÁLNÍ INŽENÝŘI - Margaret Meadová, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sangerová, Clarence Gamble, Alan Guttmacher OBCHODNÍCI SE SMRTÍ - Derek Humphry, Jack Kevorkian, Peter Singer. Vydání první.
