| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) |
| Series |
Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, 2634-582X |
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Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, 2634-582X
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Dialectics -- Chapter 2: The Wisdom-Power Dialectic -- Chapter 3: The Ethics-Morality Dialectic -- Chapter 4: The Ideology Utopa Dialectic -- Chapter 5: The Theism-Atheism Dialectic -- Chapter 6: Summation and Closing Thoughts |
| Summary |
This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living the kind of compassionate life that holds out the promise in our contemporary world of achieving something approximating universal wellness on a healthy planet at peace with itself. This work argues that the three principal subjects of the study -- independently of one another -- used the same dialectical method to reach the same dialectically derived conclusion about how humans can live redemptively in a fractured world |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ricœur, Paul
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Jesus Christ
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Jesus Christ.
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Compassion in literature.
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Compassion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031449239 |
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3031449231 |
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