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A brilliant scholar of the gospels offers a stunning new
translation of the Gospel of John that captures and illuminates the
influence and voice of Mary the mother of Jesus—a
voice which suffuses and transfigures the original with a
mother's deep and universal compassion and wisdom. A New Light on
John’s Gospel The Gospel according to John has always been
recognized as different from the “synoptic” accounts of
Matthew, Mark, and Luke. But what explains the difference? In this
new translation and verse-byverse commentary, Michael Pakaluk
suggests an answer and unlocks a twothousand-year-old
mystery. Mary’s Voice in the Gospel according to
John reveals the subtle but powerful influence of the Mother
of Jesus on the fourth Gospel. In his dying words, Jesus committed
his Mother to the care of John, the beloved disciple, who “from
that hour . . . took her into his own home.” Pakaluk draws out
the implications of that detail, which have been overlooked for
centuries. In Mary’s remaining years on earth, what would she and
John have talked about? Surely no subject was as close to their
hearts as the words and deeds of Jesus. Mary’s unique perspective
and intimate knowledge of her Son must have shaped the account of
Jesus’ life that John would eventually compose. With the same
scholarship, imagination, and fidelity that he applied to Mark’s
Gospel in The Memoirs of St. Peter, Pakaluk brings out the
voice of Mary in John’s, from the famous prologue about the
Incarnation of the Word to the Evangelist’s closing avowal of the
reliability of his account. This remarkably fresh translation and
commentary will deepen your understanding of the most sublime book
of the New Testament.
"Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our
most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due.
Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers
on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume.
. . . A splendid book!" --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor
of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York
Liberalism at the Crossroads offers succinct, accessible, and
well-written surveys of the ideas of the leading participants in
the contemporary philosophical debate about liberalism. Christopher
Wolfe brings together analyses of leading liberal thinkers from
across the spectrum as well as influential critics of liberalism,
including John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, Michael
Sandel, Richard Rorty, Joseph Raz, and William Galston. For the
second edition, each chapter has been thoroughly revised, and new
chapters on Susan Moller Okin, Richard Posner, and John Finnis have
been added to include representatives of liberal feminism, law and
economics, and natural law. The result is an invaluable overview of
contemporary political theory, ideal for both students and
scholars.
"Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our
most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due.
Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers
on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy volume.
. . . A splendid book!" --M. M. Wartofsky, Distinguished Professor
of Philosophy, Baruch College, City University of New York
This is an engaging and accessible introduction to the Nicomachean
Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy. Michael
Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of the entire work,
uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying
careful attention to his arguments. The chapter on friendship
captures Aristotle's doctrine with clarity and insight, and Pakaluk
gives original and compelling interpretations of the Function
Argument, the Doctrine of the Mean, courage and other character
virtues, Akrasia, and the two treatments of pleasure. There is also
a useful section on how to read an Aristotelian text. This book
will be invaluable for all student readers encountering one of the
most important and influential works of Western philosophy.
Natural Law Today: The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy
explains and defends various aspects of traditional natural law
ethical theory, which is rooted in a broad understanding of human
nature. Some of the issues touched upon include the relation of
natural law to speculative reason and human ends (teleology), the
relationship between natural law and natural theology, the
so-called naturalistic fallacy (deriving "ought" from "is"), and
the scope of natural knowledge of the precepts of the natural law,
as well as possible limits on it. It also takes up certain
historical and contemporary questions, such as the various stances
of Protestant thinkers toward natural law, the place of natural law
in contemporary U.S. legal thought, and the relationship between
natural law and liberal political thought more generally. It brings
together a number of the leading exponents of a more traditional or
classical form of natural law thought, who claim to root their
arguments within the broader philosophy of Thomas Aquinas more
deeply than other major representatives of the natural law
tradition today.
Natural Law Today: The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy
explains and defends various aspects of traditional natural law
ethical theory, which is rooted in a broad understanding of human
nature. Some of the issues touched upon include the relation of
natural law to speculative reason and human ends (teleology), the
relationship between natural law and natural theology, the
so-called naturalistic fallacy (deriving "ought" from "is"), and
the scope of natural knowledge of the precepts of the natural law,
as well as possible limits on it. It also takes up certain
historical and contemporary questions, such as the various stances
of Protestant thinkers toward natural law, the place of natural law
in contemporary U.S. legal thought, and the relationship between
natural law and liberal political thought more generally. It brings
together a number of the leading exponents of a more traditional or
classical form of natural law thought, who claim to root their
arguments within the broader philosophy of Thomas Aquinas more
deeply than other major representatives of the natural law
tradition today.
Both Aristotle and moral psychology have been flourishing areas of
philosophical inquiry in recent years. This volume aims to bring
the two streams of research together, offering a fresh infusion of
Aristotelian insights into moral psychology and philosophy of
action, and the application of developed philosophical sensibility
as regards the reading of Aristotelian texts. The contributors
offer stimulating new examinations of Aristotle's understanding of
the various psychological states, dispositions, processes, and acts
-- including reasoning and deliberation -- that contribute to the
understanding of human action and its ethical appraisal.
This is an engaging and accessible introduction to the Nicomachean
Ethics, Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy. Michael
Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of the entire work,
uncovering Aristotle's motivations and basic views while paying
careful attention to his arguments. The chapter on friendship
captures Aristotle's doctrine with clarity and insight, and Pakaluk
gives original and compelling interpretations of the Function
Argument, the Doctrine of the Mean, courage and other character
virtues, Akrasia, and the two treatments of pleasure. There is also
a useful section on how to read an Aristotelian text. This book
will be invaluable for all student readers encountering one of the
most important and influential works of Western philosophy.
Michael Pakaluk presents the first systematic study in English of Books VIII and IX of Aristotle's masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics; these books comprise one of the most famous of all discussions of friendship. Pakaluk accompanies his fresh and accurate translation with a philosophical commentary which unfolds lucidly the various arguments in the text, assuming no knowledge of Greek on the part of the reader.
Michael Pakaluk presents the first systematic study in English of Books VIII and IX of Aristotle's masterpiece of moral philosophy, the Nicomachean Ethics; these books comprise one of the most famous of all discussions of friendship. Pakaluk accompanies his fresh and accurate translation with a philosophical commentary which unfolds lucidly the various arguments in the text, assuming no knowledge of Greek on the part of the reader.
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