Las bondades del pesimismo y el peligro de la falsa esperanza
Author: Roger Scruton
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789569225147
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Author: Roger Scruton
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789569225147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Scruton
Publisher:
Published: 2010-09-09
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9788434488472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPocas actitudes están mejor vistas socialmente y necesitan menos defensa que el optimismo. La mayoría de personas creen que en el futuro desaparecerán las enfermedades, que la buena disposición anímica es la clave para superar las adversidades, que una comunidad de individuos libres es compatible con la igualdad social, que podemos conseguir cualquier cosa que nos propongamos si la queremos con suficiente intensidad... ¿Pero qué ocurre cuando nuestro optimismo se vuelve tan desmesurado que no nos deja calcular correctamente nuestras posibilidades de éxito, cuando nos empuja a pensar que podemos conseguir nuestras metas sin esfuerzo, cuando el optimismo choca con la realidad? En muchas ocasiones, cuando las expectativas se frustran, las personas, en lugar de reconsiderar sus objetivos, consideran que los que tienen éxito (países, ciudadanos, grupos sociales) son los responsables del fracaso, de este sentimiento germinan las políticas del resentimiento que al perseguir la utopía de la igualdad social, cultural, económica y educativa están socavando las instituciones, las tradiciones y las costumbres que posibilitan que los seres humanos convivan civilizadamente.
Author: Morris P. Fiorina
Publisher: Hoover Press
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0817921168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica is "currently fighting its second Civil War." Partisan politics are "ripping this country apart." The 2016 election "will go down as the most acrimonious presidential campaign of all." Such statements have become standard fare in American politics. In a time marked by gridlock and incivility, it seems the only thing Americans can agree on is this: we're more divided today than we've ever been in our history. In Unstable Majorities Morris P. Fiorina surveys American political history to reveal that, in fact, the American public is not experiencing a period of unprecedented polarization. Bypassing the alarmism that defines contemporary punditry, he cites research and historical context that illuminate the forces that shape voting patterns, political parties, and voter behavior. By placing contemporary events in their proper context, he corrects widespread misconceptions and gives reasons to be optimistic about the future of American electoral politics.
Author: Richard W. Schwarz
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780816317950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gino Germani
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781412817714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis definitive contribution to social science literature describes German's general theory of authoritarianism in modem society, and applies it to authoritarian movements and regimes likely to merge out of the social mobilization of the middle and lower classes. Germani analyzes the nature, conditions, and determinants of authoritarianism in the context of Latin American political and social developments and compares it to European fascist movements.
Author: Claudia von Werlhof
Publisher: Beiträge zur Dissidenz
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631615522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWestern civilization is the Utopia of a better and higher life on Earth. The globalization of neo-liberalism proves that this project has failed. The paradigm of «Critical Theory of Patriarchy» explains this failure and discusses alternatives. By confronting the central civilizations in history, the egalitarian, life-oriented matriarchal one, and the hierarchical, nature and life dominating, hostile patriarchal one, we see that 5000 years of patriarchy have «replaced» matriarchies and nature itself by a «progressive» counter-world of «capital». This transformation characterizes «capitalist patriarchy» including «socialism». Its demise is due to the «alchemical» destruction of the world's resources, thought of, theologically legitimized and fetishized as «creation». This violence is not recognized. Elites have, instead, begun with a new «military alchemy», treating the whole Planet as weapon of mass destruction. Hence, the «Planetary Movement for Mother Earth».
Author: Michael Oakeshott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780300105339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Oakeshott, the foremost British political philosopher of the twentieth century, died in 1990, leaving a substantial collection of unpublished material. Yale University Press is continuing to make available the best of these illuminating works. In this polished and hitherto unknown work, Oakeshott argues that modern politics was constituted out of a debate, persistent through centuries of European political experience down to our own day, over the question "What should governments do?" According to Oakeshott, two different answers have dominated our thought since the fifteenth century. One, exemplified by such thinkers as Rousseau and Marx, expresses a belief in the capacity of human beings to control, design, and monitor all aspects of social and political life, a belief fostered by the intoxicating increase in power available to governments in modern times. On the other hand, sceptics such as Montaigne, Pascal, and Hobbes argued that governments cannot, in principle, produce perfection and that we should prevent concentrations of power that may result in tyrannies that oppress the dignity of the human spirit. Oakeshott exposes the pitfalls of both positions and shows the value of a middle ground that incorporates scepticism with enough faith to avoid total quietism. Readers of Oakeshott will find here the thinking that lies behind his famous definition of politics as "the pursuit of intimations.".
Author: John Edmiston
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781419649134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Christian Handbook For Emotional Transformation Emotions are a very important part of the Christian life. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is especially important when it comes to leadership and ministry skills. Biblical EQ uses the Bible and the character of Jesus to show how we can grow both spiritually and emotionally into mature human beings. Biblical EQ uses the life and character of Jesus as the model to emulate. Jesus Christ shows us what it is like to be a perfect person, whose emotions are both well-expressed and well-managed in love. The Holy Spirit is God resident in human personality, with the power to change us into the image of Jesus Christ. We are not left alone to change ourselves! God the Holy Spirit will help us! So Biblical EQ will take you on a bible-based journey through the world of emotional growth and emotional intelligence. You will learn how to change your perspectives, your beliefs, thoughts and intents of the heart, manage your physical reactions to emotions, control stress, have faith and mastery in life and how to grow in love, social skills and Christian leadership.
Author: Jose M. Herrou Aragon
Publisher: José M. Herrou Aragón
Published: 2012-07-03
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 1471725693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.