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For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and
nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects
Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and
meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most
recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the
common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that
contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the
impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency
ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love,
beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as
a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a
self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new
understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of
morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and
well-being.
This collection of original essays, written by scholars from
disciplines across the humanities, addresses a wide range of
questions about love through a focus on individual films, novels,
plays, and works of philosophy. The essays touch on many varieties
of love, including friendship, romantic love, parental love, and
even the love of an author for her characters. How do social forces
shape the types of love that can flourish and sustain themselves?
What is the relationship between love and passion? Is love between
human and nonhuman animals possible? What is the role of projection
in love? These questions and more are explored through an
investigation of works by authors ranging from Henrik Ibsen to Ian
McEwan, from Rousseau to the Coen Brothers.
Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in
the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an
excellent starting point for both law and non-law students
encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first
time. Topics covered include administration and enforcement, waste
management, EU environmental law, pollution control, environmental
permitting, contaminated land, environmental torts and private
regulation. The book is supported by a range of learning features
designed to help students: Consolidate your learning: Chapter
learning objectives and detailed summaries clarify and highlight
key points Understand how the law works in practice: 'Law in
Action' features demonstrate the application of pollution control
law Plan your research: Detailed end of chapter further reading
sections outline articles, books and online resources that provide
next steps for your research This sixth edition has been updated
and revised to take into account recent developments in the
subject, including coverage of the Environmental Permitting
(England and Wales) Regulations 2010; developments in the
Environment Agency enforcement and sanctions policy documents; and
updates relating to the defence of statutory authority in the tort
of private nuisance. Suitable for students of environmental law and
the wider environmental studies, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental
Law is a valuable guide to this wide-ranging subject. Susan Wolf is
Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Northumbria. Neil
Stanley is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds.
Written with real clarity by authors teaching and researching in
the field, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law offers an
excellent starting point for both law and non-law students
encountering this diverse and controversial subject for the first
time. Topics covered include administration and enforcement, waste
management, EU environmental law, pollution control, environmental
permitting, contaminated land, environmental torts and private
regulation. The book is supported by a range of learning features
designed to help students: Consolidate your learning: Chapter
learning objectives and detailed summaries clarify and highlight
key points Understand how the law works in practice: 'Law in
Action' features demonstrate the application of pollution control
law Plan your research: Detailed end of chapter further reading
sections outline articles, books and online resources that provide
next steps for your research This sixth edition has been updated
and revised to take into account recent developments in the
subject, including coverage of the Environmental Permitting
(England and Wales) Regulations 2010; developments in the
Environment Agency enforcement and sanctions policy documents; and
updates relating to the defence of statutory authority in the tort
of private nuisance. Suitable for students of environmental law and
the wider environmental studies, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental
Law is a valuable guide to this wide-ranging subject. Susan Wolf is
Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Northumbria. Neil
Stanley is Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds.
Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human
motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the
altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan
Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit
into this scheme. Often we act neither for our own sake nor out of
duty or an impersonal concern for the world. Rather, we act out of
love for objects that we rightly perceive as worthy of love--and it
is these actions that give meaning to our lives. Wolf makes a
compelling case that, along with happiness and morality, this kind
of meaningfulness constitutes a distinctive dimension of a good
life. Written in a lively and engaging style, and full of
provocative examples, "Meaning in Life and Why It Matters" is a
profound and original reflection on a subject of permanent human
concern.
Integrating Mental Health and Disability into Public Health
Disaster Preparedness and Response brings together the fields of
mental/behavioral health, law, human rights, and medicine as they
relate to disaster planning and response for people with
disabilities, mental and behavioral health conditions and chronic
illness. Children and adults with disabilities, mental/behavioral
health conditions and chronic illness remain more vulnerable to the
negative effects of emergencies and disasters than the general
population. This book addresses the effects of emotional trauma,
personal growth and resilience, the impact on physical health and
systems of care, and legal compliance and advocacy. Following a
philosophy of whole community emergency planning, inclusive of
people with disabilities, the book advocates for considering and
addressing these issues together in an effort to ultimately lead to
greater resilience for individuals with disabilities and the whole
community.
For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and
nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects
Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and
meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most
recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the
common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that
contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the
impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency
ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love,
beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as
a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a
self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new
understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of
morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and
well-being.
This collection of original essays, written by scholars from
disciplines across the humanities, addresses a wide range of
questions about love through a focus on individual films, novels,
plays, and works of philosophy. The essays touch on many varieties
of love, including friendship, romantic love, parental love, and
even the love of an author for her characters. How do social forces
shape the types of love that can flourish and sustain themselves?
What is the relationship between love and passion? Is love between
human and nonhuman animals possible? What is the role of projection
in love? These questions and more are explored through an
investigation of works by authors ranging from Henrik Ibsen to Ian
McEwan, from Rousseau to the Coen Brothers.
Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism
in terms of a debate between two standard positions.
Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require
causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of
nature. According to compatibilism, people are free and responsible
as long as their actions are governed by their desires. In Freedom
Within Reason, Susan Wolf charts a path between these traditional
positions: We are not free and responsible, she argues, for actions
that are governed by desires that we cannot help having. But the
wish to form our own desires from nothing is both futile and
arbitrary. Some of the forces beyond our control are friends to
freedom rather than enemies of it: they endow us with faculties of
reason, perception, and imagination, and provide us with the data
by which we come to see and appreciate the world for what it is.
The independence we want, Wolf argues, is not independence from the
world, but independence from forces that prevent or preclude us
from choosing how to live in light of a sufficient appreciation of
the world. The freedom we want is a freedom within reason and the
world.
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