1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459958003321

Autore

Weddle David L (David Leroy), <1942->

Titolo

Miracles [[electronic resource] ] : wonder and meaning in world religions / / David L. Weddle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8147-8453-4

0-8147-9483-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

202/.117

Soggetti

Miracles

Religions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Note about the Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Preliminary Considerations -- 2 Hinduism -- 3 Judaism -- 4 Buddhism -- 5 Christianity -- 6 Islam -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the dominance of scientific explanation in the modern world, at the beginning of the twenty-first century faith in miracles remains strong, particularly in resurgent forms of traditional religion. In Miracles, David L. Weddle examines how five religious traditions—Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam—understand miracles, considering how they express popular enthusiasm for wondrous tales, how they provoke official regulation because of their potential to disrupt authority, and how they are denied by critics within each tradition who regard belief in miracles as an illusory distraction from moral responsibility.In dynamic and accessible prose, Weddle shows us what miracles are, what they mean, and why, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, they are still significant today: belief in miracles sustains the hope that, if there is a reality that surpasses our ordinary lives, it is capable of exercising—from time to time—creative, liberating, enlightening, and healing power in our world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004354390403321

Autore

Lenin, Vladimir Ilich <1870-1924>

Titolo

Stato e rivoluzione : la dottrina marxista dello stato e i compiti del proletariato nella rivoluzione / V. I. Lenin ; a cura di Valentino Gerratana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Editori Riuniti, 1966-

Descrizione fisica

207 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

Le idee

Disciplina

320.532

320.1

335.43

Locazione

BFS

FLFBC

NAP02

Collocazione

DIC / LEN 2

335.43 LEN 7 (3.ed.)

335.43 LEN 7 (2.ed.)

335.43 LEN 7

XXVIII C 50

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961806503321

Autore

Ree Paul <1849-1901.>

Titolo

Basic writings / / Paul Ree ; translated from the German and edited by Robin Small

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2003

ISBN

9780252092244

0252092244

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

International Nietzsche studies

Altri autori (Persone)

ReePaul <1849-1901.>

SmallRobin <1944->

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-173) and index.

Nota di contenuto

On books and authors -- On human actions and their motives -- On women, love, and marriage -- Mixed thoughts -- On religious things -- On happiness and unhappiness -- Essay on vanity -- The origin of the concepts "good" and"evil" -- The origin of conscience -- Responsibility and freedom of the will -- The origin of punishment and the feeling of justice : on deterrence and retribution -- The origin of vanity -- Moral progress -- The relation of goodness to happiness.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains the first English translations of The Origin of the Moral Sensations and Psychological Observations, the two most important works by the German philosopher Paul Rée. These essays present Rée's moral philosophy, which influenced the ideas of his close friend Friedrich Nietzsche considerably.Nietzsche scholars have often incorrectly attributed to him arguments and ideas that are Rée's and have failed to detect responses to Rée's works in Nietzsche's writings. Rée's thinking combined two strands: a pessimistic conception of human nature, presented in the French moralists' aphoristic style that would become a mainstay of Nietzsche's own writings, and a theory of morality derived from Darwin's theory of natural selection. Rée's moral Darwinism was a central factor prompting Nietzsche to write On the Genealogy of Morals and the groundwork for much of today's "evolutionary ethics."In an illuminating critical introduction, Robin Small examines Rée's life and work, locating his application of evolutionary



concepts to morality within a broader history of Darwinism while exploring Rée's theoretical and personal relationship with Nietzsche. In placing Nietzsche in his intellectual and social context, Small profoundly challenges the myth of Nietzsche as a solitary thinker.