Vanessa has always sought to forgive her husband through all the drama until he does something so completely wrong that she decides to give up on him altogether. As she balance the demands of single motherhood with the lure of her newly solo status, Vanessa cant help but appreciate her two sister friends, Sharon and Nicki, who are facing their own personal challenges. Sharon is harboring secrets she believes keeps a happy marriage, until one violent night forced her to change her lifestyle for good. Nicki decides to get things to the next level in her relationship, she has no idea her lover is about to do something so unexpected that everything she believes in will begin to crumble right before her eyes. As Vanessas quest for a fresh beginning eventually leads her to new man, she must decide whether to take a chance on love again or walk away. Replaceable Lovers tells a story of pain, a broken marriage, and new beginnings as a women journeys to find true love, with the help and support from her two best friends she called sisters.
How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together "like a horse and carriage"? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In the Second Edition of this lively, lucid, and comprehensive book, Raja Halwani explores and elucidates the nature, uses, and ethics of romantic love, sexuality, and marriage. It is structured in three parts: Love examines the nature of romantic love and how it differs from other types of love, such as friendship and parental love. It also investigates the relationship of love to morality and asks what limits morality puts on romantic love and even whether romantic love is inherently moral. Sex demonstrates the difficulty in defining sex and the sexual, and examines what constitutes good and bad sex in terms of pleasure, "naturalness," and moral permissibility. It discusses the nature of sexual desire and its connection to objectification and virtue, all the while looking at specific sexual engagements such as pornography, BDSM, and raced desires. Marriage traces the history of the institution and describes the various forms in which marriage exists and the reasons why people marry. It also investigates the necessity of marriage and ways in which it requires reform. Updates and Revisions in the Second Edition Expands the coverage of love and morality from one to two chapters, incorporating much of the recent literature on love as a moral emotion. Includes a new chapter on sex and virtue ethics. Ends each of the chapters on sex with an "applied" topic, such as pornography, BDSM, prostitution, racial sexual desires, and adultery. Increases coverage of the nature and purpose of marriage, including debates surrounding same-sex marriage, but also moving beyond these debates to include issues on minimal marriage, temporary marriage, polygamy, and other forms of marriage. Updates the Further Reading and Study Questions sections at the end of each chapter and provides an up-to-date comprehensive bibliography at the back of the book. Includes new discussions of topics on the nature of love; love and reasons; distinctions between two types of romantic love; love and its connections to moral theories; definitions of crucial sexual concepts; objectification; virtue and sex; racial sexual desires; and the definition of marriage and whether it is important as an institution.
This is a guide to contemporary thought on ethical issues in all areas of human activity - personal, medical, sexual, social, political, judicial, and international, from the natural world to the world of business.
Stories about love by a Czech writer. In Heaven Hell Paradise, a man returns from exile to find his lover a different woman, while The White House is a romance between a young man and a blind girl.
The concept of romantic love, influenced as it is by the theme within Romanticism of alienation and identification, suggests an important connection between love and personal identity. Love in this context recognizes both the sense in which one’s beloved is a separate human being and is, at the same time, a constitutive aspect of one’s identity. Alienation and Identity in Romantic Love explores this connection in the context of discussions of both metaphysical views of personal identity and practical or ethical accounts. To this end, Gary Foster discusses the work of influential philosophers in both the analytic and continental traditions as well as the findings of sociologists. He explores the love and personal identity relationship through moral and narrative perspectives and examines certain aspects of the modern love experience such as the phenomenon of online dating. Ultimately, Foster finds in Jean-Paul Sartre’s work a promising approach to understanding this connection through his emphasis on embodied identity.
What is radical about providing loving care? The radical concept is that each and every caregiver in today's hospitals should be providing loving care to their patients and to each other. In the same vein, each and every leader in our hospitals should be taking care of those who care for others. This work addresses healthcare leaders through illustrative examples and compelling outcomes that demonstrate the success of the Healing Hospital model in today's hospital. Training tools are also provided to help leaders and employee partners construct and advance a culture of loving care in today's technocratic hospital setting.
“If everyone had the madness for doing good, there wouldn't be any misery in the world.” The 21st Century Humanitarian Thinker Abhijit Naskar, also known as the Saint Scientist, delivers us a seminal piece of literature on the making of a united humanity. Here, Naskar points out in his ever-lucid and warm manner of writing, that without a real sense of oneness or unity within us humans, we would never be able to make the glorious idea of "world peace and harmony" an actual reality. He depicts in this magnificent humanitarian composition, that peace and harmony would automatically start to manifest all around us, once we realize our innate oneness as one humankind beyond all forms of sectarianism and act upon that realization.
