10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-ABNEGATING»
Discover the use of
self-abnegating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
self-abnegating and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Self-Interest: Volume 14
A parallel claim holds for the self-abnegating person's intense love of the good of
others. Even if it is intrinsically better than any less intense love of the good of
others, this love prevents his having an intrinsically even better love of goods of
his ...
Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, Jeffrey Paul, 1997
2
Narrative, Authority and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and ...
His every act has as its goal the maintenance of an absolute status quo, and the
model he presents to his parishioners is self-abnegation in the face of existing
social forces. The model is self-abnegating not only in its content but in the very ...
3
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
In all due self-abasement might I speak— 776.58 Self-abnegating. What's your
reward, self-abnegating friend? 466.75 Yes: our self-abnegating policy 818.16
Selt-abn Ration. Self-abnegation, freedom from all fear, 854.77 Self-abolishment.
So if one is self-abnegating, for example, he would be encouraged to be
profligate until he has expunged the trait of self-abnegation, at which point he
would be encouraged to allow himself some amenities. While if one is profligate,
he would ...
Moses Maimonides, Yosef Kafaḥ, 2008
5
The Moral Demands of Affluence
And this claim does not beg the question against the self-abnegating view. If the
argument relied on assumptions about how much self-sacrifice beneficence
requires—how much self-sacrifice is needed to avoid a failure of beneficence—
then it ...
She considers the case ofa person who defers to others in a “self-abnegating”
manner. In short, self-abnegating deference is the systematic subordination of
oneSelf-abnegating deference characterizes such a person's first-order desires; ...
7
Morality and
Self-Interest
On the view I am advancing, self-regarding considerations do not belong in what
is ordinarily meant by “morality”. Is this view then perversely self-abnegating? 17.
Contrast Susan Wolf, “Moral Saints”. 18. Some have argued on similar grounds ...
Paul Bloomfield Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Connecticut, 2007
One of its classic expressions is found in the boast that I tithe to the Church, that I
fast twice a week, that I keep Lent, that I am always in my pew at the proper time,
that I engage in many self-abnegating acts. Unfortunately, such things did not ...
9
Why Nations Cooperate: Circumstance and Choice in ...
States aid their allies even at their own expense because it is in their interest to
do so.4J Sustaining alliance relationships is a reason for maximizing joint
interests rather than narrow national self-interest. Seemingly self-abnegating
behavior ...
10
Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life
I agree that the arrogant individual who characteristically places himself above all
others, and the self-abnegating individual who characteristically places himself
below all others, both fail to have genuine self-respect because they do not ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-ABNEGATING»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
self-abnegating is used in the context of the following news items.
Robin Williams' final film is a frustrating career finale
He's less tragic than he is irritatingly self-abnegating: How — and why — could he live to be 60 with such a secret? “Boulevard” feels 40 years out of date. «New York Post, Jul 15»
Media glut, the 'Bachelor,' Yelp get the Groundlings treatment
... Taco Bell and server Patterson, and the Act 1 closer, “The Final Rose,” wickedly posits Croner and Worswick as self-abnegating candidates on “The Bachelor.”. «Los Angeles Times, May 15»
Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages
As Kyra, the self-abnegating teacher of David Hare's "Skylight" in Stephen Daldry's sensationally acted production, Mulligan has a look that suggests her ... «Los Angeles Times, Apr 15»
Objecting to the 'season of giving'
The altruistic command to “love thy enemy” is a self-abnegating and self-destructive injunction. What about outright charity? The Salvation Army bell-ringers are ... «Washington Post, Dec 14»
Was John Hancock's Signature Too Big? Or Was Everyone Else's …
... signature was too large—it was that everyone else's was unnecessarily small? What if Hancock's only looks grandiose by comparison with the self-abnegating ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 14»
John Boehner's Legal Lesson
The aim here is less to reverse the particular grievances enumerated in the suit, and more to create a general means by which divided and self-abnegating ... «National Review Online, Jul 14»
O, Africa! by Andrew Lewis Conn
... much as his love of movies; Izzy is a self-abnegating gay man, emotionally stunted, cripplingly introverted and obsessed with the technical side of filmmaking. «Paste Magazine, Jun 14»
Feminism and the Mummy Mystique: Why being a mother isn't the …
A mother and daughter walk in the park. The cult of self-abnegating motherhood is ultimately one that gives more prestige to the mother than benefit to the child. «New Statesman, Nov 13»
It's Getting Hotter. So Why Not Put Your Faith in the Free Market?
Indeed, such rhetoric often seems to serve no purpose but to cause despair of a particularly self-abnegating and masochistic kind, lamenting as it does the ... «PopMatters, Sep 13»
The NYT's Superegotistical Anti-Spitzer Endorsement
What makes this morning's endorsement of Stringer something other than strictly dog-bites-man news is that the endorsement itself is so odd, self-abnegating, ... «The New Republic, Aug 13»
