Autore	Smiley Tavis
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Carlsbad, California : , : SmileyBooks, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	170/.44
Soggetto topico	Conduct of life
ISBN	1-4019-4840-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Altri titoli varianti	Fifty for your future
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910163891603321

Autore	Schuster John P
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	San Francisco, CA, : Berrett-Koehler, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (169 p.)
Disciplina	170/.44
Collana	0
Soggetto topico	Conduct of life Vocation
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-29985-9 9786612299858 1-57675-959-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Introduction: You Are Called; Difficulties of the Call; Multiple Calls; Sources of the Call; How to Read This Book; Part I: Getting Started with a Calling; Chapter 1: What Is a Call?; Working Definitions; Responding to the Call; Calls and the Times of Our Lives; Exercise: Thinking About the Nature of Calls; Chapter 2: Common Calls; Calls Both Obvious and Subtle; The Working Quadrant of Calls; Common Calls; Giving the Role Much More Than You Thought You Had; Exercise: Reviewing Your Call History; Chapter 3: Mightily Believe You Have a Calling; Listening Past the Social Noise Making Money and the Social DrummerGoing Beneath the Noise; Maintaining Purpose While Managing the Doldrums; The Monastery Versus the Doldrums; Focusing on the Limitless Within Your Limiting Conditions; Exercise: Heeding Your Inner Voice and Believing When the Evidence Is Sparse; Part I: Summary; Part II: Breathing Depth into Common Calls; Chapter 4: Endure the Saboteurs; High Purpose Attracts the Demonic Destroyers; Learning the Signs and Patterns of Saboteurs; An Early Lesson in Sabotage; A Master Saboteur; The Damage Saboteurs Inflict; Lessons to Learn Fighting Your Saboteur Self: The Ultimate BattleExercise: Reflecting on Saboteurs and Their Impact; Chapter 5: Pass On the Evocateur's Gift; Calling Forth Potential; The Coach and the No-Dribble, No-Shoot Point Guard; Lasting Memories, Lasting Lessons; Tapping That Which Lies Dormant; A Writer's Evocateur; Gifts Surfaced: Passing It On; Exercise: Deepening Your Appreciation of Evocateurs' Impact on Your Life; Chapter 6: Provoke the Stifling; Battles Fought; Mary Harris: Provocateur Extraordinaire; What Provocateurs Do; Guidelines for Everyday Provocateurs Provoke When You Have Little Authority, Sponsor Provocateurs When You Have ItExercise: Provoking with Skill and Courage; Part II: Summary; Part III: Keeping Focus for the Long Term; Chapter 7: Go Gently Against the Ego; Managing False Messages; The Ego in Disguise; Leaning into Fear; The Fun Factor; Cooperating with the Ego; Exercise: Reflecting on Ego Containment; Chapter 8: Work the Veil; Evocateurs Revisited; A Sandwich Dream-Weaver; A Chorus of Calls; Welcoming Your Calls with Balance; Exercise: Working the Veil; Part III: Summary; Appendix: Questions in Interviews for Answering Your Call NotesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; About the Author
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457260503321

Autore	Gert Bernard <1934->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (202 p.)
Disciplina	170/.44
Soggetto topico	Ethics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-531421-2 1-280-55919-5 9786610559190 0-19-803872-0 1-4237-2092-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Some Areas of Widespread Agreement""; ""Distinguishing Features of Moral Judgments""; ""Rationality and Human Nature""; ""Areas of Moral Disagreement""; ""Analogy between Morality and Grammar""; ""Part I: The Moral System""; ""Features of the Moral System""; ""The Moral Rules""; ""The Moral Ideals""; ""General Characteristics of Moral Rules""; ""To whom do the rules apply?""; ""Whom do the moral rules protect?""; ""Interpreting the Rules""; ""1. ""Do not kill.""""; ""2. ""Do not cause pain.""""; ""3. ""Do not disable."""" ""4. ""Do not deprive of freedom.""""""5. ""Do not deprive of pleasure.""""; ""Summary of the first five rules""; ""6. ""Do not deceive.""""; ""7. ""Keep your promises.""""; ""8. ""Do not cheat.""""; ""9. ""Obey the law.""""; ""10. ""Do your duty.""""; ""Violations of Moral Rules Involve Liability to Punishment""; ""Justifying Violations of the Moral Rules""; ""The Two-Step Procedure for Justifying Violations of the Moral Rules""; ""The first step: Using the morally relevant features to describe the act"" ""The second step: Estimating the consequences of everyone knowing that a kind of violation is allowed and that it is not allowed""""Moral Virtues and Vices""; ""Summary and Test""; ""Part II: The Moral Theory""; ""The Justification of Morality""; ""Characteristics of Moral Agents""; ""Knowledge or Beliefs Required of All Moral Agents""; ""Irrationality and Rationality""; ""Rationality as Maximizing Satisfaction of Desires""; ""Objectively Irrational Actions""; ""Personally Irrational Actions""; ""Reasons versus Motives""; ""All Reasons Have Justifying Force""; ""Reasons and Desires"" ""Adequate Reasons""""Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest""; ""Impartiality""; ""Two Philosophical Attempts to Achieve Moral Impartiality""; ""Justifying Moral Impartiality""; ""Why morality requires impartiality with respect to the moral rules""; ""The group with regard to which morality requires impartiality""; ""Why Act Morally?""; ""Morality as an Informal Public System""; ""The Role of Governments in Settling Unresolvable Moral Disagreements""; ""Rights""; ""The Consequences of Morality Not Always Providing a Unique Correct Answer""; ""A Complete Moral Theory""; ""Conclusion"" ""Flow Charts""""Rationality""; ""Morality""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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Autore	Wattles Jeffrey
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (268 p.)
Disciplina	170/.44
Soggetto topico	Golden rule Religion
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-535500-8 1-280-52921-0 1-4294-0679-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; ONE: Introduction: The Golden Rule-One or Many, Gold or Glitter?; I. HISTORIES OF THE GOLDEN RULE; TWO: A Confucian Path from Conscientiousness to Spontaneity; THREE: From Greek Reciprocity to Cosmopolitan Idealism; FOUR: A Jewish Rule of Wisdom; FIVE: A New Testament Rule of Divine Love; SIX: A Theological Principle; SEVEN: Modern Objections and Responses: From the Religious to the Secular; EIGHT: The Golden Rule of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man; NINE: In the Other Person's Shoes; TEN: A Principle of Consistency in Moral Decision Making ELEVEN: A Principle of Sensitivity and RespectTWELVE: Twentieth-Century Religious Interpretations; II. AN ETHICS OF THE GOLDEN RULE; THIRTEEN: The Golden Rule in a Philosophy of Morality; FOURTEEN: Religious Dimensions of the Golden Rule; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451156703321