The Pursuit of Human Well-Being - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pursuit of Human Well-Being write by Richard J. Estes. This book was released on 2017-01-09. The Pursuit of Human Well-Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook informs the reader about how much progress we, the human race, have made in enhancing the quality of life on this planet. Many skeptics focus on how the quality of life has deteriorated over the course of human history, particularly given World War II and its aftermath. This handbook provides a positive perspective on the history of well-being. Quality of life, as documented by scientists worldwide, has significantly improved. Nevertheless, one sees more improvements in well-being in some regions of the world than in others. Why? This handbook documents the progress of well-being in the various world regions as well as the differences in those regions. The broad questions that the handbook addresses include: What does well-being mean? How do different philosophical and religious traditions interpret the concept of well-being within their own context? Has well-being remained the same over different historical epochs and for different regions and subregions of the world? In which areas of human development have we been most successful in advancing individual and collective well-being? In which sectors has the attainment of well-being proven most difficult? How does well-being differ within and between different populations groups that, for a variety of socially created reasons, have been the most disadvantaged (e.g., children, the aged, women, the poor, racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities)?
The Core Values of Chinese Civilization
The Core Values of Chinese Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Core Values of Chinese Civilization write by Lai Chen. This book was released on 2016-12-20. The Core Values of Chinese Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on the core values of western civilization, the author refines the counterparts in Chinese civilization, summarized as four core principles: duty before freedom, obedience before rights, community before individual, and harmony before conflict. Focusing on guoxue or Sinology as the basis of his approach, the author provides detailed explanations of traditional Chinese values. Recent scholars have addressed the concept of guoxue since the modern age, sorting through it and piecing it together, which has produced an extremely abundant range of information. However, given that the concepts and theories involved have been left largely unanalyzed, this book develops a theoretical treatment of them in several important respects. First, it analyzes the mindset of guoxue, examining the dominant ideas and values of the era from which the term “guoxue” arose, focusing on its connection to early changes and trends in society and culture, and distinguishing three key phases of development. Past scholars mainly had in mind the range of objects studied in guoxue when defining it, and what this book underscores is the meaning of guoxue as a modern body of research. Secondly, it assesses several phases in the modern evolution of the body of guoxue research from the beginning to the end of the 20th century, i.e., ending with the later phase of the National Heritage movement. Third and lastly, the book explores the various main modes of modern guoxue, which correspond step by step with the evolutionary phases of guoxue research.
The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom
The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom write by Naomi E. Maurer. This book was released on 1998. The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores van Gogh's and Gauguin's concepts of spirituality in life and art, and the ways in which their ideas and the events of their personal lives shaped their creation of repertoires of meaningful symbolic motifs.
A Way of Music Education
A Way of Music Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Way of Music Education write by C. Victor Fung. This book was released on 2018. A Way of Music Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moving back through Dewey, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Rousseau, the lineage of Western music education finds its origins in Plato and Pythagoras. Yet theories not rooted in the ancient Greek tradition are all but absent. A Way of Music Education provides a much-needed intervention, integrating ancient Chinese thought into the canon of music education in a structured, systematized, and philosophical way. The book's three central sources - the Yijing (The Book of Changes), Confucianism, and Daoism - inform author C. Victor Fung's argument: that the human being exists as an entity at the center of an organismic world in which all things and events, including music and music education, are connected. Fung ultimately proposes a new educational philosophy based on three key ideas in Chinese thought: change, balance, and liberation. A unique work, A Way of Music Education offers a universal approach engrained in a specific and ancient cultural tradition.
The Pursuit of Pleasure
The Pursuit of Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pursuit of Pleasure write by Arsen Dallan. This book was released on 2016-11-15. The Pursuit of Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.
