Discernment

Discernment

Author: Pierre Wolff

Publisher: Liguori/Triumph

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764809897

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Based on the time-tested spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th-century founder of the Jesuits who developed a systemic way of considering and making choices, this revised edition helps those who want to make fruitful choices and manage decisions with faithfulness to God.


Choosing Well

Choosing Well

Author: Chrisoula Andreou

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-01-24

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0197584136

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"This book focuses on the challenges associated with effective choice over time. In particular, it considers the challenges raised by cyclic preferences and by incomplete preferences, both of which interfere with the agent's neatly ordering her options, and which make the agent susceptible to self-defeating patterns of choice in which the agent is drawn into taking each of a series of steps that collectively lead her to a result that she deems unacceptable. The book's guiding questions are the following: What is an agent to do if she finds herself with cyclic preferences or with incomplete preferences? Is an agent or group of agents with such preferences necessarily irrational? It is argued that the answer to the latter question is "no"; rationality does not invariably prohibit disorderly preferences, but it does (to get back to the first question) prompt us to proceed with caution and with a readiness to show restraint, based on an awareness of larger dynamics, when our preferences are disorderly. Theories of rational choice often dismiss or abstract away from the sorts of disorderly preferences at issue here. They assume that rational agents can and should have neat preferences over their options; but this assumption is problematic. Rationality can validate certain disorderly preference structures while also protecting us from self-defeating patterns of choice. Rationality can thus handle quite a lot of messiness, which is important, since rationality wouldn't be all that helpful if, whenever messiness threatened, we could not turn to it for guidance"--


Choosing the Good

Choosing the Good

Author: Dennis P. Hollinger

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 080102563X

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An intelligent discussion of the foundations and methods in ethics and ways to apply a Christian worldview to our secular culture.


Choosing Well

Choosing Well

Author: Rachel Haliburton

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1773382918

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Offering a compendium of case studies in bioethics, Choosing Well demonstrates real ethical dilemmas that can occur in health care settings. Instructors can draw upon the scenarios in this concise and highly effective resource to encourage analysis, critique, discussion, and debate of hot-button ethical issues. The authors present a diverse selection of complex case studies in bioethics to stimulate in-depth analysis on topics ranging from distributive justice, research ethics, reproductive technologies, abortion, and death and dying, to the health care professional–patient relationship and ethics in the workplace. The text also features case studies that move through time to reflect real-life decision making and cases that present multiple perspectives to illustrate the challenges that can arise from disputes in health care settings. Utilizing the DECIDED strategy for analyzing case studies, instructors can guide students through the steps needed to work through a wide variety of ethical dilemmas and encourage reflection on their own ethical assumptions. Accessible, practical, and highly engaging, Choosing Well offers a helpful and interesting way to explore central issues in contemporary bioethics, making it an indispensable resource for instructors and students of bioethics, biomedical ethics, and health care ethics. FEATURES: - Includes a brief introduction to ethics, the role of case studies, and some of the most important bioethical principles, as well as a glossary of key terms - Features Canadian-focused content and themes reflecting the challenges of modern health care settings - Provides a framework for case study analysis, along with sample analyses of three full case studies using the DECIDED approach


Learning to Choose, Choosing to Learn

Learning to Choose, Choosing to Learn

Author: Mike Anderson

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2016-04-20

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1416621865

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Offering students choices about their learning, says author Mike Anderson, is one of the most powerful ways teachers can boost student learning, motivation, and achievement. In his latest book, Anderson offers numerous examples of choice in action, ideas to try with different students, and a step-by-step process to help you plan and incorporate choice into your classroom. You’ll explore * What effective student choice looks like in the classroom. * Why it’s important to offer students choices. * How to create learning environments, set the right tone for learning, and teach specific skills that enable choice to work well. When students have more choices about their learning, they can find ways of learning that match their personal needs and be more engaged in their work, building skills and work habits that will serve them well in school and beyond. This teacher-friendly guide offers everything you need to help students who are bored, frustrated, or underperforming come alive to learning through the fundamental power of choice.


Highlighted in Yellow

Highlighted in Yellow

Author: H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1558538348

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In this collection of quotes and stories, the authors draw on those that bestpoint to understanding the key elements in a life well lived.


Choosing Raw

Choosing Raw

Author: Gena Hamshaw

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0738216887

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After her health journey led her to a plant-based diet, Gena Hamshaw started a blog for readers of all dietary stripes looking for a common– sense approach to healthy eating and fuss–free recipes. Choosing Raw, the book, does in an in depth manner what the blog has done for hundreds of thousands of readers: addresses the questions and concerns for any newcomer to veganism; makes a plant–based diet with many raw options feel easy instead of intimidating; provides a starter kit of delicious recipes; and offers a mainstream, scientifically sound perspective on healthy living. With more than 100 recipes, sumptuous food photos, and innovative and wholesome meal plans sorted in levels from newcomer to plantbased pro, Hamshaw offers a simple path to health and wellness. With a foreword by Kris Carr,New York Times–bestselling author of Crazy Sexy Diet, Choosing Raw is a primer in veganism, a cookbook, the story of one woman's journey to health, and a love letter to the lifestyle that transformed her relationship with food.


Oxford Papers

Oxford Papers

Author: C. Terry Warner

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-20

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 9780989793506

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"Educated in philosophy at Yale, Dr. C. Terry Warner has devoted a lifetime to the study of self-deception. In a steady stream of lectures, papers, and seminars over nearly three decades, Dr. Warner has presented the results of his academic inquiry into the foundations of human behavior to both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences. The papers that make up this collection, among others, were all prepared as part of Warner's work at Oxford--either presented in lectures there, prepared for presentation or publication there, or prepared in response to colleagues there--and have been assembled for the use of the serious student of Arbinger's rich and robust philosophical underpinnings"--


The Paradox of Choice

The Paradox of Choice

Author: Barry Schwartz

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0061748994

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Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.


The Good Thing About Mortar Shells

The Good Thing About Mortar Shells

Author: Jennifer van Wyck

Publisher: Van Wyck Consulting

Published: 2020-08-21

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781777339807

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This is the response Jennifer gave to her father when he commented on the birds singing in the background during their international phone call. She was on the roof top of her apartment in Syria during the civil war. A place everyone was running away from and a place where she was working as a humanitarian, trying to advocate for love and compassion. If you want to understand how you can overcome fear by choosing love, Jennifer demonstrates in this book, that even in the darkest places, there is kindness, compassion, hope, and the possibility for happiness. She shares stories from her life and her humanitarian work during the Ebola Crisis, in Haiti and Syria. She draws from her work with hundreds of clients as a psychotherapist, to give you practical techniques of how to face your fears, overcome pain and suffering and most importantly how to choose love. Jennifer van Wyck MSM is a psychotherapist, humanitarian, author, inspirational motivational speaker, spiritual teacher, energy worker, and grounded intuitive guide. She has received a Mertrious Service Medal from the Canadian government for her work during the Ebola outbreak, and she continues to devote her life to choosing love over fear.