26 Results for : pieties
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The Original Compromise: What the Constitution's Framers Were Really Thinking , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
The eighty-five famous essays by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay - known collectively as the Federalist Papers - comprise the lens through which we typically view the ideas behind the U.S. Constitution. But we are wrong to do so, writes David Brian Robertson, if we really want to know what the Founders were thinking. In this provocative new account of the framing of the Constitution, Robertson observes that the Federalist Papers represented only one side in a fierce argument that was settled by compromise - in fact, multiple compromises. Drawing on numerous primary sources, Robertson unravels the highly political dynamics that shaped the document. Hamilton and Madison, who hailed from two of the larger states, pursued an ambitious vision of a robust government with broad power. Leaders from smaller states envisioned only a few added powers, sufficient to correct the disastrous weakness of the Articles of Confederation, but not so strong as to threaten the governing systems within their own states. The two sides battled for three arduous months; the Constitution emerged piece by piece, the product of an evolving web of agreements. Robertson examines each contentious debate, including arguments over the balance between the federal government and the states, slavery, war and peace, and much more. In nearly every case, a fractious, piecemeal, and very political process prevailed. In this way, the convention produced a government of separate institutions, each with the will and ability to defend its independence. Majorities would rule, but the Constitution made it very difficult to assemble majorities large enough to let the government act. Brilliantly argued and deeply researched, this book will change the way we think of "original intent". With a bracing willingness to challenge old pieties, Robertson rescues the political realities that created the government we know today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clinton Wade. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015523/bk_adbl_015523_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Philosophy of Religion: Philosophy Shorts, Volume 27 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 62min
A number attempts to provide a rational basis for religious sentiment are clearly stated and carefully critiqued, most of them being shown to fail. At the same time, it is argued that the legitimacy of religious sentiment is in no way undermined by such failings, since any outlook whose legitimacy depends on the outcome of logical or empirical inquiry is for that very reason a non-religious outlook. And the reason for this is not that a religious outlook is a stubbornly irrational one. It is that the false historical and cosmological doctrines that religions require their followers to accept are mere foils. In believing, for lack of a better word, that Christ walked on water, one is accepting Christ's teachings; one is not actually accepting the obvious falsehood that some man walked on water. Unless one's acceptance of these teachings took the form of quasi-acceptance of obvious fictions, one's acceptance of them would be as fragile and as motivationally inert as any other reason-based belief. By the same token, because the falsehood in question is invariably of a patently infantile kind, one's acceptance of it represents an existential commitment on one's part to a certain way of life. These obvious truths are lost on philosophers of religion, given their tendency to take all statements literally and their consequent failure to give due to weight to unstated contextual information. In general, so the present work demonstrates, philosophers who have examined religion have succeeded only studying projections of their own brittle rationalism, which, it seems, merely cloaks an underlying desire to return to the very pieties these same philosophers claim to spurn. This is not to say that religious belief is not to be analyzed, but rather that it falls within the bailiwick not of the logician, but of the psychoanalyst. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clive Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066184/bk_acx0_066184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dissonant Pieties
Dissonant Pieties - John Calvin and the Prayer Psalms of the Psalter: ab 15.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion
Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion - Powers and Pieties: ab 38.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Pieties in Transition
Pieties in Transition - Religious Practices and Experiences c. 1400-1640: ab 46.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Avant-Garde Pieties
Avant-Garde Pieties - Aesthetics Race and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics: ab 40.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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