What Moves Man
What Moves Man

Author: Annette Freyberg-Inan

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0791486354

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The realist theory of international relations is based on a particularly gloomy set of assumptions about universal human motives. Believing people to be essentially asocial, selfish, and untrustworthy, realism counsels a politics of distrust and competition in the international arena. What Moves Man subjects realism to a broad and deep critique. Freyberg-Inan argues, first, that realist psychology is incomplete and suffers from a pessimistic bias. Second, she explains how this bias systematically undermines both realist scholarship and efforts to promote international cooperation and peace. Third, she argues that realism's bias has a tendency to function as a self-fulfilling prophecy: it nurtures and promotes the very behaviors it assumes predominate human nature. Freyberg-Inan concludes by suggesting how a broader and more complex view of human motivation would deliver more complete explanations of international behavior, reduce the risk of bias, and better promote practical progress in the conduct of international affairs.

Nous moves man, and vice versa
Nous moves man, and vice versa

Author: Plato, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Publisher: Philaletheians UK

Published: 2018-01-21

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13:

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Eternal Vibration is Motion Unmanifested, a spiritual term. Vortical Motion is Motion Manifested, a material term. Greeks divided the soul into two: Noetic and Phrenic; Pythagoras, into three: Nous, Phren, and Thymos; Buddhists, into seven; Theosophists, also into seven. Lord Buddha compared man, the great boon and bloom of sentient life, to saptaparna (seven-leaf plant). Plato affirms seven constituents in Man: 7. Agathon or Good. 6. Sophia or Wisdom. 5. (a) Nous or Ideals; (b) Phren or Ideality. 4. Thymos or Desire. 3. Bios or Vitality. 2. Eidolon or Model Body. 1. Soma or Physical Body.

The Moves Make the Man
The Moves Make the Man

Author: Bruce Brooks

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-08-11

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0061919365

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Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumper, blind pass. These are me. The moves make the man. The moves make me. Jerome foxworthy -- the Jayfox to his friends -- likes to think he can handle anything. He handled growing up without a father. He handled being the first black kid in school. And he sure can handle a basketball. Then Jerome meets bix Rivers -- mysterious and moody, but a great athlete. So Jerome decides to teach bix his game. He can tell that bix has the talent. All he's got to do is learn the right moves....

Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin
Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin

Author: Andrei P. Tsygankov

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-28

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1139537008

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Since Russia has re-emerged as a global power, its foreign policies have come under close scrutiny. In Russia and the West from Alexander to Putin, Andrei P. Tsygankov identifies honor as the key concept by which Russia's international relations are determined. He argues that Russia's interests in acquiring power, security and welfare are filtered through this cultural belief and that different conceptions of honor provide an organizing framework that produces policies of cooperation, defensiveness and assertiveness in relation to the West. Using ten case studies spanning a period from the early nineteenth century to the present day - including the Holy Alliance, the Triple Entente and the Russia-Georgia war - Tsygankov's theory suggests that when it perceives its sense of honor to be recognized, Russia cooperates with the Western nations; without such a recognition it pursues independent policies either defensively or assertively.

The Moral Dignity of Man
The Moral Dignity of Man

Author: Peter E. Bristow

Publisher: Scepter Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781851821761

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"Many of today's moral conflicts concerning family values and medical ethics have their basis in different conceptions of man and the nature and purpose of human life. Fr Bristow argues that contemporary utilitarianism and the various forms of permissive morality are insufficient for dealing with these matters and that only a natural law morality is adequate to the needs and dignity of the human person. He goes on to apply its principles to the issues that derive from advancing technology, such as genetic engineering, in vitrio fertilization, embryo research, drugs and painkillers and ecology."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
The Visceral Logics of Decolonization

Author: Neetu Khanna

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-02-28

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 1478009233

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In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral. Khanna focuses on the work of the Progressive Writers' Association (PWA)—a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s—to show how anticolonial literature is a staging ground for exploring racialized emotion and revolutionary feeling. Among others, Khanna examines novels by Mulk Raj Anand, Ahmed Ali, and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, as well as the feminist writing of Rashid Jahan and Ismat Chughtai, who each center the somatic life of the body as a fundamental site of colonial subjugation. In this way, decolonial action comes not solely from mental transformation, but from a reconstitution of the sensorial nodes of the body. The visceral, Khanna contends, therefore becomes a critical dimension of Marxist theories of revolutionary consciousness. In tracing the contours of the visceral's role in decolonial literature and politics, Khanna bridges affect and postcolonial theory in new and provocative ways.