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Llewellyn s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick features the
greatest minds of magick assembled in one place, available as a
limited-edition hardcover as well as a trade paperback edition.
Compiled by two of the leading figures in the magick community,
this new title in Llewellyn s Complete Book series includes more
than 650 pages of insights into magical systems, techniques,
grimoires, correspondences, and practices. These two outstanding
editions of Llewellyn s Complete Book of Ceremonial Magick are
must-haves for collectors and for magical practitioners with a
variety of experience levels. Twelve extensive chapters each
explore an aspect of the fascinating tapestry that is ceremonial
magick, focusing on practical knowledge that can be put to use by
ceremonial magicians from many different traditions or backgrounds.
This comprehensive work is filled with practical historical
perspectives as well as fresh insights, including working with
Notariqon, Gematria, and Temurah in the Qabalah tradition; an
in-depth analysis of historical grimoires and their registers of
spirits; step-by-step instructions for six alchemical workings;
example rituals of planetary magick for devotion and talismanic
preparation; Enochian magick from John Dee to the Golden Dawn; a
deeply personal description of the Abra-melin operation; an
overview of Aleister Crowley s syncretic influence on working
Golden Dawn magick using polytheist symbolism, with step-by-step
instructions for several rituals; and a glimpse into the future of
ceremonial magick.
Find everything you need for a solid introduction to philosophy
with this brief, powerful text. One of the most concise
introductory philosophy anthologies available, KNOWLEDGE, NATURE,
AND NORMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, Second Edition features
classical philosophy readings, short fiction, and literature from
popular writers, as well as a wealth of effective learning tools.
Concise, well-edited selections are designed to give first-time
philosophy students what you need to succeed--a well-crafted focus
on the essential elements of philosophical debate. Integrated
learning tools, such as a comprehensive introductory essay at the
beginning of the text, provides an overview of how to approach
philosophy. Engaging Chapter Introductions highlight key arguments,
while Reading Comprehension and Review Questions draw your
attention to key ideas. A robust companion website further enhances
learning with self-assessment exercises, study guides, and links to
philosophical and other helpful resources. With this anthology,
you'll find a complete range of philosophical topics, including key
issues in epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. This thorough
introduction is all within a book that's one-third the length of a
typical anthology for cost savings and unmatched clarity.
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes
presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes,
investigating such questions as: * What does it mean to be an
agent? * What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal
responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal
responsibility (if any)? * What is the relation between
responsibility and the metaphysical issues of determinism and free
will? * What do various psychological disorders tell us about
agency and responsibility? * How do moral agents develop? How does
this developmental story bear on questions about the nature of
moral judgment and responsibility? * What do the results from
neuroscience imply (if anything) for our questions about agency and
responsibility? OSAR thus straddles the areas of moral philosophy
and philosophy of action, but also draws from a diverse range of
cross-disciplinary sources, including moral psychology, psychology
proper (including experimental and developmental), philosophy of
psychology, philosophy of law, legal theory, metaphysics,
neuroscience, neuroethics, political philosophy, and more. It is
unified by its focus on who we are as deliberators and
(inter)actors, embodied practical agents negotiating (sometimes
unsuccessfully) a world of moral and legal norms.
Personal Identity and Ethics provides a lively overview of the
relationship between the metaphysics of personal identity and
ethics. How does personal identity affect our ethical judgments? It
is a commonplace to hold that moral responsibility for past actions
requires that the responsible agent is in some relevant respect
identical to the agent who performed the action. Is this true? On
the other hand, can ethics constrain our account of personal
identity? Do the practical requirements of moral theory commit us
to holding that persons do remain identical over time? Or is it the
case that personal identity is not, in fact, relevant to ethics?
Shoemaker provides the first comprehensive examination of these
issues for the undergraduate audience. Topics include personal
identity and prudential rationality; personal identity's
significance for moral responsibility and ethical theory; and the
practical consequences of accounts of personal identity for issues
such as abortion, stem cell research, cloning, advance directives,
populations ethics, multiple personality disorder, and the
definition of death.
David Shoemaker presents a new pluralistic theory of
responsibility, based on the idea of quality of will. His approach
is motivated by our ambivalence to real-life cases of marginal
agency, such as those caused by clinical depression, dementia,
scrupulosity, psychopathy, autism, intellectual disability, and
poor formative circumstances. Our ambivalent responses suggest that
such agents are responsible in some ways but not others. Shoemaker
develops a theory to account for our ambivalence, via close
examination of several categories of pan-cultural emotional
responsibility responses (sentiments) and their appropriateness
conditions. The result is three distinct types of responsibility,
each with its own set of required capacities: attributability,
answerability, and accountability. Attributability is about the
having and expressing of various traits of character, and it is the
target of a range of aretaic sentiments and emotional practices
organized around disdain and admiration. Answerability is about
one's capacity to govern one's actions and attitudes by one's
evaluative judgments about the worth of various practical reasons,
and it is the target of a range of sentiments and emotional
practices organized around regret and pride. Accountability is
about one's ability to regard others, both evaluatively and
emotionally, and it is the target of a range of sentiments and
emotional practices organized around anger and gratitude. In Part
One of the book, this tripartite theory is developed and defended.
In Part Two of the book, the tripartite theory's predictions about
specific marginal cases are tested, once certain empirical details
about the nature of those agents have been filled in and discussed.
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