1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391930903316

Autore

Timorcus Theophilus

Titolo

The Covenanters plea against absolvers. Or, A modest discourse, shewing why those who in England & Scotland took the Solemn League and Covenant, cannot judge their consciences discharged from the obligation of it, by any thing heretofore said by the Oxford men; or lately by Dr Featly, Dr. Gauden, or any others [[electronic resource] ] : In which also several cases relating to promisory oathes, and to the said Covenant in special, are spoken to, and determined by Scripture, reason, and the joynt suffrages of casuists. Contrary to the indigested notions of some late writers; yet much to the sense of the Reverend Dr. Sanderson / Written by Theophilus Timorcus a well-wisher to students in casuistical divinity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for T.B. and are to be sold in Westminster Hall and Pauls Church-yard, 1661. [i.e. 1660]

Descrizione fisica

[24], 87, [1] p

Soggetti

Covenanters

Oaths

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Attributed to Richard Baxter, Thomas Gataker, and Richard Vines by John Brown in his "An apologeticall relation of the particular sufferings of the faithfull ministers & professours of the Church of Scotland, since August, 1660" (p. 379), though the second two died in 1654 and 1656 respectively.

The first leaf contains "The portraiture of his sacred Majesty in his Solitudes, .. [quotation]".

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb. 17".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910563072603321

Autore

Zylinska Joanna

Titolo

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Humanities Press, 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Collana

Critical Climate Change

Soggetti

Ethics & moral philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking about life (instead of just continuing to live it) when being confronted with the prospect of death: be it the death of individuals due to illness, accident or old age; the death of whole ethnic or national groups in wars and other forms of armed conflict; but also of whole populations, be they human or nonhuman. Even though Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene is first and foremost concerned with life-understood as both a biological and social phenomenon-it is the narrative about the impending death of the human population (i.e., about the extinction of the human species), that provides a context for its argument. "Anthropocene" names a geo-historical period in which humans are said to have become the biggest threat to life on earth. However, rather than as a scientific descriptor, the term serves here primarily as an ethical injunction to think critically about human and nonhuman agency in the universe. Restrained in tone yet ambitious in scope, the book takes some steps towards outlining a minimal ethics thought on a universal scale. The task of such minimal ethics is to consider how humans can assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe, across different scales, and how they can respond to the tangled mesh of connections and relations unfolding in it. Its goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink "life" and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left.



The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist's method; it also includes a photographic project by the author.