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Author : Irene McMullin
Release : 2019
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 668/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Existential Flourishing by : Irene McMullin
Download or read book Existential Flourishing written by Irene McMullin. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that 'flourishing' means balancing one's responsiveness to three normative claims: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability.
Author : Phil Torres
Release : 2017
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 427/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing by : Phil Torres
Download or read book Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing written by Phil Torres. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existential risk studies is a growing field that attempts to understand the greatest dangers to humanity from a scientific perspective. This book offers the first scholarly survey of existential risks, from asteroid impacts and climate change to molecular nanotechnology and machine superintelligence. It argues that avoiding an existential catastrophe should be among our highest moral priorities and analyzes a number of risk mitigation strategies to reduce the probability of a worst-case scenario. The dangers facing humanity this century are real and immense, but the future course of civilization is ultimately up to us.
Author : Toby Ord
Release : 2020-03-24
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 89X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Precipice by : Toby Ord
Download or read book The Precipice written by Toby Ord. This book was released on 2020-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Since then, these dangers have only multiplied, from climate change to engineered pathogens and artificial intelligence. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late. Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies that can safeguard humanity. An Oxford philosopher committed to putting ideas into action, Toby Ord has advised the US National Intelligence Council, the UK Prime Minister's Office, and the World Bank on the biggest questions facing humanity. In The Precipice, he offers a startling reassessment of human history, the future we are failing to protect, and the steps we must take to ensure that our generation is not the last. "A book that seems made for the present moment." —New Yorker
Author : Irene McMullin
Release : 2013-07-31
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 569/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Time and the Shared World by : Irene McMullin
Download or read book Time and the Shared World written by Irene McMullin. This book was released on 2013-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time and the Shared World challenges the common view that Heidegger offers few resources for understanding humanity’s social nature. The book demonstrates that Heidegger’s reformulation of traditional notions of subjectivity has wide-ranging implications for understanding the nature of human relationships. Contrary to entrenched critiques, Irene McMullin shows that Heidegger’s characterization of selfhood as fundamentally social presupposes the responsive acknowledgment of each person’s particularity and otherness. In doing so, McMullin argues that Heidegger’s work on the social nature of the self must be located within a philosophical continuum that builds on Kant and Husserl’s work regarding the nature of the a priori and the fundamental structures of human temporality, while also pointing forward to developments of these themes to be found in Heidegger’s later work and in such thinkers as Sartre and Levinas. By developing unrecognized resources in Heidegger’s work, Time and the Shared World is able to provide a Heidegger-inspired account of respect and the intersubjective origins of normativity.
Author : Eugenie A. Samier
Release : 2022-06-30
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 064/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Existential Crises in Educational Administration and Leadership by : Eugenie A. Samier
Download or read book Existential Crises in Educational Administration and Leadership written by Eugenie A. Samier. This book was released on 2022-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theoretical foundations relevant to existential issues in educational leadership and management, taking inspiration from Munch’s painting The Scream. The book considers internationally relevant topics such as the growth of neoliberalism, globalisation, cultural shifts, forced migration and the digitalisation of the socio-cultural sphere and uniquely positions these crises as existential threats, rather than simply political, cultural, or social. The volume explores this complex set of dimensions in existential experience and outlines the implications for research and teaching in educational leadership. By exemplifying the narrative and introspective nature of existential research, the book addresses major aspects of the field including the impact such threats have on organisational studies, policy, administrative structures and practices, and leadership. This timely collection on existential issues in administration and leadership will appeal to academics, scholars, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers. It will also be of great interest for students in teacher education programmes and graduate courses in educational administration and leadership, organisation studies, and educational ethics for broad international use.
