1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910705615503321

Autore

Knight John C.

Titolo

Comprehensive lifecycle for assuring system safety / / John C. Knight and Jonathan C. Rowanhill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hampton, Virginia : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, , April 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 32 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA/CR ; ; 2017-219359

Soggetti

Computer Systems

Assurance

Argument

Safety

Lifecycle

Bibliographies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"April 2017."

"Performing organization: NASA Langley Research Center"--Report documentation page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 31-32).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780087103321

Autore

Grant Colin <1942->

Titolo

Altruism and Christian ethics / / Colin Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12151-5

0-521-09361-9

0-511-15364-3

0-511-04679-0

0-511-48835-1

1-280-43277-2

0-511-17408-X

0-511-32799-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New studies in Christian ethics

Disciplina

241/.4

Soggetti

Altruism

Christian ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Alien Altruism -- Explanations for altruism -- Evidence of altruism -- The elusiveness of altruism -- Ideal Altruism -- Contract altruism -- Constructed altruism -- Collegial altruism -- Real Altruism -- Acute altruism: Agape -- Absolute altruism -- Actual altruism.

Sommario/riassunto

Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. The Christian affirmation is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol



Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954106603321

Autore

Hakim Tawfiq

Titolo

The essential Tawfiq al-Hakim : plays, fiction, autobiography / / edited by Denys Johnson-Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2008

ISBN

9781617971662

1617971669

9781936190348

1936190346

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Modern Arabic literature

Altri autori (Persone)

Johnson-DaviesDenys

Disciplina

892.735

Soggetti

Arabic literature - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Body

Sommario/riassunto

The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater.In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame as a playwright is given prominence. Of the more than seventy plays he wrote, The Sultan's Dilemma, dealing with a historical subject in an appealingly light-hearted manner, is perhaps the best known; it a