Why Ultimate Happiness Transcends Human Limitations

This book Why Ultimate Happiness Transcends Human Limitations is a Christological Philosophical Classic that is apt for its time. It presents the issue of human limitations on earth in a new light that offers proper clarification for the important issue of the purpose of human life on earth viewed in the light of a prison. This book is written to you and for you, in an epistle apostolic didactic and reflective style of discussion; to enable you participate easily in the discussions initiated by the author to respond to some of the swaying issues bordering on the humanist outlook and its influence on society in this postmodern era of secularism and irreligion. This book crops up many religious and ethical issues that make it in many ways relevant for addressing your diverse needs, as an individual in society or as a member of any political, economic, commercial, ethical, religious, intellectual, professional and seminal group. So, in diverse ways this book is addressed by the author Isugu Francis Bestman to you. It answers many of the questions that you may have been thinking are unanswerable. Moreover, this book will appeal to scholars, intellectuals, professionals, business personnel, entrepreneurs, educators, public and evangelical ministers, clerics, and the laity especially because the issues raised and discussed by the author have objective, rational, religious, moral, psychological or emotional and practical imports and values. This makes this book meet the standard for proffering solutions to problems and doubts anyone or you may experience pertaining to your personal life situations in particular and the situation of public life in general. Hence this book is a must-read for all and sundry.

This book Why Ultimate Happiness Transcends Human Limitations is a Christological Philosophical Classic that is apt for its time. It presents the issue of human limitations on earth in a new light that offers proper clarification for the important issue of the purpose of human life on earth viewed in the light of a prison. This book is written to you and for you, in an epistle apostolic didactic and reflective style of discussion; to enable you participate easily in the discussions initiated by the author to respond to some of the swaying issues bordering on the humanist outlook and its influence on society in this postmodern era of secularism and irreligion. This book crops up many religious and ethical issues that make it in many ways relevant for addressing your diverse needs, as an individual in society or as a member of any political, economic, commercial, ethical, religious, intellectual, professional and seminal group. So, in diverse ways this book is addressed by the author Isugu Francis Bestman to you. It answers many of the questions that you may have been thinking are unanswerable. Moreover, this book will appeal to scholars, intellectuals, professionals, business personnel, entrepreneurs, educators, public and evangelical ministers, clerics, and the laity especially because the issues raised and discussed by the author have objective, rational, religious, moral, psychological or emotional and practical imports and values. This makes this book meet the standard for proffering solutions to problems and doubts anyone or you may experience pertaining to your personal life situations in particular and the situation of public life in general. Hence this book is a must-read for all and sundry.

How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the object of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the topic through nearly a millennium. While the centrality of the notion of happiness in ancient ethics is well known, this book is unique in that it focuses directly on this notion, as it appears in the ancient texts. Fourteen papers by an international team of scholars map the various approaches and conceptions found from the Pre-Socratics through Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy, to the Neo-Platonists and Augustine in late antiquity. While not promising a formula that can guarantee a greater share in happiness to the reader, the book addresses questions raised by ancient thinkers that are still of deep concern to many people today: Do I have to be a morally good person in order to be happy? Are there purely external criteria for happiness such as success according to received social norms or is happiness merely a matter of an internal state of the person? How is happiness related to the stages of life and generally to time? In this book the reader will find an informed discussion of these and many other questions relating to happiness.

In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral doctrine from his early writings to his major work The Leviathan, Strauss explains contradictions in the body of Hobbes's work and discovers startling connections between Hobbes and the thought of Plato, Thucydides, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics had a profound influence on generations of later philosophers, not only in the ancient era but also in the medieval period and beyond. In this book, Anthony Celano explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle's Ethics according to their own moral ideals. He argues that the moral standard for the Ethics is a human one, which is based upon the ethical tradition and the best practices of a given society. In the Middle Ages, this human standard was replaced by one that is universally applicable, since its foundation is eternal immutable divine law. Celano resolves the conflicting accounts of happiness in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, demonstrates the importance of the virtue of phronesis (practical wisdom), and shows how the medieval view of moral reasoning alters Aristotle's concept of moral wisdom.

This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an aftermodern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation of dichotomous forces in society and to examine the emergence of a "third" in the morphogenetic processes. Through a realist and critical relational sociology, which allows for the fact that human beings are both internal and external to social relations, and therefore to society, the author shows how we are moving towards a new, trans-modern society – one that calls into question the guiding ideas of Western modernity, such as the notion of linear progression, that science and technology are the decisive factors of human development, and that culture can entirely supplant nature. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, economists, political scientists, and social philosophers with interests in relational thought, critical realism, and social transformation.

A phenomenological account of religious life

Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting common assumptions of secularity in contemporary schooling in many parts of the world. This book considers the ways in which the forces of religion and belief construct and complicate the values and practices of music education—including teacher education, curriculum texts, and teaching repertoires. The contributors to this volume embrace a range of perspectives from a variety of disciplines, examining religious, agnostic, skeptical, and atheistic points of view. Music, Education, and Religion is a valuable resource for all music teachers and scholars in related fields, interrogating the sociocultural and epistemological underpinnings of music repertoires and global educational practices.