Morality, Hope and Grief
Morality, Hope and Grief

Author: Hansjörg Dilger

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010-05-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 184545829X

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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has been addressed and perceived predominantly through the broad perspectives of social and economic theories as well as public health and development discourses. This volume however, focuses on the micro-politics of illness, treatment and death in order to offer innovative insights into the complex processes that shape individual and community responses to AIDS. The contributions describe the dilemmas that families, communities and health professionals face and shed new light on the transformation of social and moral orders in African societies, which have been increasingly marginalised in the context of global modernity.

Radical Hope
Radical Hope

Author: Jonathan Lear

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0674040023

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Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.

Ethics of Hope
Ethics of Hope

Author: Jurgen Moltmann

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2013-01-26

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0334048885

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For a time of peril, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann offers an ethical framework for the future. Moltmann has shown how hope in the future decisively reconfigures the present and shapes our understanding of central Christian convictions, from creation to New Creation.

Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope
Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope

Author: Jill Graper Hernandez

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-10-13

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 144111307X

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The idea of 'hope' has received significant attention in the political sphere recently. But is hope just wishful thinking, or can it be something more than a political catch-phrase? This book argues that hope can be understood existentially, or on the basis of what it means to be human. Under this conception of hope, given to us by Gabriel Marcel, hope is not optimism, but the creation of ways for us to flourish. War, poverty and an absolute reliance on technology are real-life evils that can suffocate hope. Marcel's thought provides a way to overcome these negative experiences. An ethics of hope can function as an alternative to isolation, dread, and anguish offered by most existentialists. This book presents Marcel's existentialism as a convincing, relevant moral theory; founded on the creation of hope, interwoven with the individual's response to the death of God. Jill Hernandez argues that today's reader of Marcel can resonate with his belief that the experience of pain can be transcended through a philosophy of hope and an escape from materialism.

Morality, Hope and Grief
Morality, Hope and Grief

Author: Hansj Rg Dilger

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781845456634

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`[S]ome of the best, most thoughtful scholarship on AIDS in Africa.'---Julie Livingston, Rutgers University --

The Moral Psychology of Hope
The Moral Psychology of Hope

Author: Claudia Blöser

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-13

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1786609738

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That we can hope is one of the capacities that define us as human beings. To hope means not just to have beliefs about what will happen, but to imagine the future as potentially fulfilling some of our most important wishes. It is therefore not surprising that hope has received attention by philosophers, psychologists and by religious thinkers throughout the ages. The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.

Mourning Nature
Mourning Nature

Author: Ashlee Cunsolo

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0773549331

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A pioneering work exploring the implications for politics, ethics, and praxis.

Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa
Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa

Author: Dr Marian Burchardt

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-09-28

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1472428412

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This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes and the scientific languages and public health institutions that sustain them on the other, this anthology charts largely uncovered terrain in the social science study of the Aids epidemic. Spanning different regions of Africa, the authors offer unique access to issues at the interface of religion and medical humanitarianism and the manifold therapeutic traditions, religious practices and moralities as they co-evolve in situations of AIDS treatment. This book also sheds new light on how religious spaces are formed in response to the dilemmas people face with the introduction of life-prolonging treatment programmes.

Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope
Gabriel Marcel's Ethics of Hope

Author: Jill Graper Hernandez

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-10-13

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1441198601

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The idea of 'hope' has received significant attention in the political sphere recently. But is hope just wishful thinking, or can it be something more than a political catch-phrase? This book argues that hope can be understood existentially, or on the basis of what it means to be human. Under this conception of hope, given to us by Gabriel Marcel, hope is not optimism, but the creation of ways for us to flourish. War, poverty and an absolute reliance on technology are real-life evils that can suffocate hope. Marcel's thought provides a way to overcome these negative experiences. An ethics of hope can function as an alternative to isolation, dread, and anguish offered by most existentialists. This book presents Marcel's existentialism as a convincing, relevant moral theory; founded on the creation of hope, interwoven with the individual's response to the death of God. Jill Hernandez argues that today's reader of Marcel can resonate with his belief that the experience of pain can be transcended through a philosophy of hope and an escape from materialism.

The Ethics of Death
The Ethics of Death

Author: Lloyd Steffen

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1451487576

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In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Their respectful and engaging dialogue highlights the complex and challenging issues that surround many deaths in our modern world and helps readers frame thoughtful responses. Unafraid of difficult topics, Steffen and Cooley fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.