Divergent and Philosophy
Title | Divergent and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Courtland Lewis |
Publisher | Open Court |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2015-12-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0812699114 |
Courtland Lewis has scoured the planet to bring together the most talented faction members, factionless, and even a few from the Bureau to discuss the philosophy of Divergent. Divergent and Philosophy begins by examining the personal struggles that all people face at some time: What sort of person should I be? What if I find out my life is a lie? What do I owe my parents? Am I normal? Once readers have finished answering these questions they’re ready for the “choosing ceremony.” Part two examines each faction, looking at its virtues, vices, and other features that will help readers pick the “right” faction. This part gives readers a glimpse into what it’s like to be faced with the most important decision of our lives, the one that will forever determine who we are. Part three takes a step takes a step back, in order to question Chicago's ordering of society. Chicago is on the verge of revolution, but is this the result of the faction system itself, or is it the people within the factions that are behind the social discord? Part four shifts the focus individuals and those who hold power. Part five tells us how to recognize injustice.
Divergent Paths
Title | Divergent Paths PDF eBook |
Author | Richard A. Posner |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2016-01-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0674286030 |
Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics criticize judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges to dismiss academic discourse as divorced from reality. Richard Posner reflects on the causes and consequences of this widening gap and what can be done to close it.
Strategic Justice
Title | Strategic Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Vanderschraaf |
Publisher | Academic |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199832196 |
The author defends the ancient claim that justice is at bottom a body of social conventions. Recent analytical and empirical concepts and results from the social sciences together with insights and arguments of past masters of moral and political philosophy are integrated into a new game-theoretic conventionalist analysis of justice.
Four
Title | Four PDF eBook |
Author | Veronica Roth |
Publisher | Harper Fire |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-04-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780008662257 |
Fans of the Divergent series by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four: A Divergent Collection, a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias Eaton's point of view. DIVERGENT, INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT were major blockbuster movies in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias Eaton's life. The first three pieces in this volume - "The Transfer," "The Initiate," and "The Son" - follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, and the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions. The fourth story, "The Traitor," runs parallel with the events of Divergent, giving readers a glimpse into the decisions of loyalty - and love - that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior. Exclusive scenes included!
Art and Responsibility
Title | Art and Responsibility PDF eBook |
Author | Jules Simon |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2011-03-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441131671 |
Two German philosophers working during the Weimar Republic in Germany, between the two World Wars, produced seminal texts that continue to resonate almost a hundred years later. Franz Rosenzweig-a Jewish philosopher, and Martin Heidegger-a philosopher who at one time was studying to become a Catholic priest, each in their own, particular way include in their writings powerful philosophies of art that, if approached phenomenologically and ethically, provide keys to understanding their radically divergent trajectories, both biographically and for their philosophical heritage. Simon provides a close reading of some of their essential texts-The Star of Redemption for Rosenzweig and Being and Time and The Origin of the Work of Art for Heidegger-in order to draw attention to how their philosophies of art can be understood to provide significant ethical directives.
Embodied Difference
Title | Embodied Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Jamie A. Thomas |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2019-02-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1498563872 |
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.
Aristotle on the Nature of Community
Title | Aristotle on the Nature of Community PDF eBook |
Author | Adriel M. Trott |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107036259 |
Adriel M. Trott reads Aristotle's Politics through the internal cause definition of nature to develop an active and inclusive account of politics.