'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade.
... worldly things , which are more plural , dynamic , and disputed than her theory recognizes . In reference to thing's original meaning , worldly thing , a central concept in this book , indicates not a generic object but a " matter of ...
Explores the ideas expressed in some fifty classic writings that offer the reader insight into the meaning of life and how to live it more fully.
In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx.
... Worldly Leadership'? David Weir 158 10 Worldly Leadership through Local Knowledge: Discovering Voices of Emirati Women Business Leaders Lynda L. Moore 171 11 Worldly Leadership in Pakistan Seth Organizations: An Empirical Challenge to ...
... worldly stage as a virtual model for the kind of agonistic society towards which his writings seem to aspire. These plays and poems thereby prepare us, I will argue in Worldly Shakespeare, for what the philosopher Michael Walzer ...
... worldly winds in more detail, and the chapter following it discusses ways to 'sail the worldly winds' – responding to them more skilfully and ethically. Secondly, they show us the connection between ethics and wisdom. When we are swept ...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. DIVINE VERSUS WORLDLY LOVE 1. Worldly Love is an intoxication of the Astral Light . It is a state of severe mental per- turbation . 2. Divine Love is the Law of Universal Sympathy . 3. Monosexual consciousness ...
... worldly oriented or that Buddhism is only about individualistic inner peace, the early Buddhist texts bear witness to the Buddha's highly this-worldly ethical concerns and his unconventional social visions. The early texts show that ...
... Worldly Philosopher will learn, books themselves have stories and biographies born of ideas. so, too, with this book. Worldly Philosopher was my wife's idea. Thank you for starting me on this journey and being my company throughout ...