Books: 'True discourses'

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Osho. True name: Discourses on Japuji-Saheb of Guru Nanak Dev. Delhi: Wiley Eastern Ltd, 1994.

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Osho. The true name: Discourses on Japuji-Saheb of Guru Nanak Dev. New Delhi: New Age International, 1994.

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Schneersohn, Samuel. True existence: A Chasidic discourse. Brooklyn, N.Y: Kehot Publication Society, 2002.

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Joseph, Hoffmann R., ed. On the true doctrine: A discourse against the Christians. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

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Cole, Alyson. The cult of true victimhood: From the war on welfare to the war on terror. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2006.

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Cole, Alyson. The cult of true victimhood: From the war on welfare to the war on terror. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.

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Mi khamokhah 629 =: Mi chamocha 5629 : True existence : a chasidic discourse. Brooklyn, N.Y: Kehot, 2002.

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True to the language game: African American discourse, cultural politics, and pedagogy. New York: Routledge, 2011.

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The cult of true victimhood: From the war on welfare to the war on terror. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2007.

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The tree that bends: Discourse, power, and the survival of the Maskókî people. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.

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Paschalis, Kitromilides, ed. A discourse on the Island of Cyprus and on the reasons for the true succession in that kingdom. Venezia: Istituto ellenico di studi bizantini e postbizantini di Venezia, 2006.

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Simms, Norman Toby. The humming tree: A study in the history of mentalities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

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Smith, Stephen R. True believers, hated by the world: A discourse, delivered in the "Free Church", Clinton, N.Y. in the afternoon of the third Sunday in November, 1828 and in Utica, the first Sunday in December. Utica: Dauby & Maynard, 1988.

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Vincent, Thomas. The true Christian's love to the unseen Christ: A discourse chiefly tending to excite and promote the decaying love of Christ in the hearts of Christians, with an appendix concerning Christ's manifestation of Himself to them that love Him. Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 1993.

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Fulton, Justin D. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses. Hard Press, 2006.

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Thornwell, James Henley. Whatsoever Things Are True: Classic Discourses on Truth. Solid Ground Christian Books, 2005.

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The True Name Discourses on Japuji-saheb of Guru Nanak Dev (VOLUME 2). NEW AGE, 1999.

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Waldron, William S. Reflections on Indian Buddhist Thought and the Scientific Study of Meditation, or. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495794.003.0005.

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One of the fundamental distinctions in the modern academy is the difference between studying human life as people experience it and studying it in terms of impersonal causal processes—the so-called first- and third-person approaches. This dichotomy is reflected in the study of meditation, in which neuroscientists attempt to correlate their “objective” findings with the “subjective” reports of meditators. This very distinction, though, invites two extremes: either these discourses are ultimately incommensurable or one discourse—the subjective—should be reduced to the “true,” objective discourse. This chapter criticizes putatively pure subjectivity or objectivity from Buddhist philosophical perspectives, especially the non-duality of subject and object, and seeks to articulate a middle ground between reductionism and incommensurability.

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Simmons, Keith. Contextual Theories of Truth and Paradox. Edited by Michael Glanzberg. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557929.013.30.

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This chapter reviews the major contextual theories of truth and paradox. These theories are all motivated by a certain kind of liar discourse, sometimes called the strengthened liar or revenge liar. A contextual framework for the analysis of this kind of discourse is presented, drawing on Stalnaker’s and Lewis’s—and others’—work on context-change. The various contextual theories of truth differ in their specific treatments of revenge discourses. According to Burge’s hierarchical theory and Simmons’s non-hierarchical singularity theory, the predicate “true” is a context-sensitive predicate. According to the hierarchical approaches of Parsons and Glanzberg, the context-dependence of truth is derived from the context-dependence of quantifier domains, while for Barwise and Etchemendy, it is situations that may expand with the context. Any approach to the liar faces the threat of new paradoxes tailored to that approach, and these contextual theories are no exception. Challenges to these contextual theories are examined.

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Schneersohn, Samuel. True Existence: A Chasidic Discourse from Chabad-Lubavitch. Kehot Publication Society, 2002.

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Blidstein, Moshe. Introducing Purity Discourses. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791959.003.0001.

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This chapter sets out the aims of the book: to understand what Christians meant when they talked about purity, purification, and defilement, whether of body or of soul. It indicates the theoretical underpinnings of the book in anthropological and psychological studies, from structural-symbolic theories such as that of Mary Douglas to contemporary theories on disgust and emotion. It comments on the distinctions, and connections, between purity discourses and purity rituals, and suggests paradigms of “battle” and “truce” as an alternative to “moral” and “ritual” purity. Finally, it outlines the chapters of the book and its main arguments.

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de Bruyn, Theodore. Normative Christian Discourse. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199687886.003.0002.

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This chapter surveys the normative stance of Christian authorities against the use of incantations and amulets, conveyed in treatises, sermons, saints’ lives, and ecclesiastical canons. In condemning or critiquing the use of incantations and amulets, Christian writers and bishops sought to differentiate what they considered to be ‘true’ Christians from ‘false’ or ‘lax’ Christians, pagans, and Jews. Nevertheless, the scenarios they created in their discourse reveal a slippage between what authorities urged and what Christians did. By studying amulets that have survived from Late Antiquity, one can arrive at a more nuanced understanding of how the production of amulets in an increasingly Christian context both continued and altered pre-existing practices.

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Celsus, Aulus Cornelius. On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians. Oxford University Press, USA, 1987.

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Cudworth, R. Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper. Kessinger Publishing, 2003.

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Cole, Alyson. The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror. Stanford University Press, 2006.

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Cole, Alyson. The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror. Stanford University Press, 2006.

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True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy. Routledge, 2011.

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Parts, Lyudmila. In Search of the True Russia: The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse. University of Wisconsin Press, 2020.

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True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy. Routledge, 2011.

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Pfaller, Robert. What Reveals the Taste of the City: The Ethics of Urbanity. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422925.003.0008.

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Urbanity, a notion that originates in the discourses on rhetoric, designates an ethics proper to the city: a witty, distanced behaviour that replaces the authentic person by the playful enactment of a role. This involves - as every theatre - the presence of an illusion; a certain ‘as if’; a deception, yet one that does not deceive anybody. The belief in the illusion becomes interpassively delegated to a kind of virtual, naive observer. Postmodernity, with its obsession with questions of true identity, can be seen as the key enemy of this urban role-play. It thus contributes to the neoliberal privatization and destruction of urban, public space.

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Whitby, Daniel. Discourse Concerning, I. the True Import of the Words Election and Reprobation &C. HardPress, 2020.

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Valdez, Jessica R. Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474344.001.0001.

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Newspapers are constantly lying in the worlds of Victorian novels, from the false report of John Harmon’s death in Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865) to allegations of extramarital affairs in Phineas Finn (1867-1868). Yet characters continue to believe what they read in the newspaper, assuming that news must be recent, relevant, and true. Victorian novels thus explore the contradictory logic of news: claims to journalistic reality sit uneasily alongside unrepresentative, malicious, or even false news. This book argues that nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of news through a shifting series of metaphors, analogies, and plots. By incorporating newspapers and news discourse into their narratives, Victorian novels experimented with the ways that generic and formal qualities might reshape communal and national imaginings. This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions. Each chapter addresses a different narrative modality and its relationship to the news: Charles Dickens interrogates the distinctions between fictional and journalistic storytelling, while Anthony Trollope explores novelistic bildung in serial form; the sensation novels of Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon locate melodrama in realist discourses, whereas Anglo-Jewish writer Israel Zangwill represents a hybrid minority experience. At the core of these metaphors and narrative forms is a theorisation of the newspaper’s influence on society.

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Pedersen, Nikolaj J. L. L., and Michael P. Lynch. Truth Pluralism. Edited by Michael Glanzberg. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557929.013.31.

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Monism about truth is the view that there is precisely one way of being true. Nihilism about truth is the view that there is no such thing as being true. Pluralism about truth is the view that there are several ways of being true. For the pluralist, truth is Many; in particular, different ways of being true apply to different domains of discourse. The way in which propositions about physics may be true could differ from the way in which the propositions of morality may be true. This chapter provides an introduction to truth pluralism and offers a brief survey of different incarnations of the view. It discusses whether different kinds of pluralist have the resources adequately to address the various challenges and objections, and ends with a brief discussion of what connections, if any, pluralism about truth might bear to other kinds of pluralism.

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Blidstein, Moshe. Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791959.001.0001.

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This book examines the meanings of purification practices and purity concepts in early Christian culture, as articulated and formed by Greek Christian authors of the first three centuries, from Paul to Origen. Concepts of purity and defilement were pivotal for understanding human nature, sin, history, and ritual in early Christianity. In parallel, major Christian practices, such as baptism, abstinence from food or sexual activity, were all understood, felt, and shaped as instances of purification. Two broad motivations, at some tension with each other, formed the basis of Christian purity discourse. The first was substantive: the creation and maintenance of anthropologies and ritual theories coherent with the theological principles of the new religion. The second was polemic: construction of Christian identity by laying claim to true purity while marking purity practices and beliefs of others (Jews, pagans, or “heretics”) as false. The book traces the interplay of these factors through a close reading of second- and third-century Christian Greek authors discussing dietary laws, death defilement, sexuality, and baptism, on the background of Greco-Roman and Jewish purity discourses. There are three central arguments. First, purity and defilement were central concepts for understanding Christian cultures of the second and third centuries. Second, Christianities developed their own conceptions and practices of purity and purification, distinct from those of contemporary and earlier Jewish and pagan cultures, though decisively influenced by them. Third, concepts and practices of purity and defilement were shifting and contentious, an arena for boundary-marking between Christians and others and between different Christian groups.

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Seward, William Henry. The True Greatness Of Our Country: A Discourse Before The Young Catholic Friends Society At Baltimore. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

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Simerka, Barbara. Discourses of Empire: Counter-Epic Literature in Early Modern Spain. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.

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Millie, Julian. Hearing Allah's Call. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501713118.001.0001.

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For many Muslims throughout the world, oral preaching provides the most accessible and enjoyable medium for learning about Islam and its meanings for everyday life. This is true in Indonesia’s West Java province, where almost 98% of the population of around forty-three million practices Islam. Despite its popularity, Indonesia’s Islamic elites are concerned about the value of preaching. They see that Islam provides directives and motivations towards progress in areas of social and political concern, but argue that this progress will not be achieved if Muslims are satisfied with the pleasing artifice of clever preachers. Millie spent fourteen months in the company of some of West Java’s most successful Islamic preachers, but also spent time with critics of listening. He described and explores a dichotomy between Islamic speech which succeeds because it is shaped to suit listeners’ social realities, and discourses about Muslim subjectivity that connect media consumption with aspirations for social and political progress, and which portray listening as anachronistic and inefficacious. This detailed analysis sheds light on a question that is increasingly important in efforts to understand contemporary Muslim societies: What is the place of pious listening in the complex societies of today?

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Konrad, Eva-Maria. Signposts of Factuality: On Genuine Assertions in Fictional Literature. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805403.003.0003.

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This chapter argues for compositionalism, which is the view that a fictional text can consist of both fictional and factual discourse. One reason to think compositionalism is true is that it explains why authors go to great lengths, and commit to high levels of superfluous detail, to achieve accuracy in their works. This chapter argues for compositionalism within a framework of an institution of fictionality. The conventions of this institution are detailed and provide the basis on which we can identify factual discourse in an overall fictional context: Specific signposts of factuality demand of the reader that he read the utterance as factual and consider it to be a source of knowledge. Therefore, compositionalism allows for reliable beliefs to be formed on the basis of engaging with fictions.

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Boehme, Jacob. The Signature Of All Things, Of The Supersensual Life, The Way From Darkness To True Illumination, Discourse Between Two Souls. Providence University, 2007.

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Ali, Muna. The “Islamization of America”? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664435.003.0005.

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In addition to the diverse Muslims who invoke the narrative of “pure/true” Islam, there is an unlikely group of non-Muslims Americans who argue that rather than fringe extremist Muslims perverting Islam, it is actually the “pure/true” Islam followers who threaten America and Europe. This alarmist group consists of some conservatives, some political and religious leaders, some new atheist icons, and a cadre of former and current Muslims, many of whom claim to be feminists. This chapter examines the different ideological trends within this diverse group and explores how its members have constructed a narrative of the “Islamization of America.” Through a case study, the chapter demonstrates how this discourse shifted from the margins to the mainstream. It explores whether the rhetoric and actions this narrative inspires is Islamophobia, anti-Muslim racism, or merely a legitimate critique of Muslims and Islam; and the chapter argues that this narrative serves as a strong instrument in the racialization process of Muslims.

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James, Simon, and Stefan Krmnicek, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Roman Germany. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665730.001.0001.

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Germania was one of the most important and complex zones of cultural interaction and conflict between Rome and neighbouring societies. A vast region, it became divided into urbanized provinces with elaborate military frontiers and the northern part of the continental ‘Barbaricum’. Recent decades have seen a major effort by German archaeologists, ancient historians, epigraphers, numismatists, and other specialists to explore the Roman era in their own territory, with rich and often surprising new knowledge. This Handbook aims to make the results of this great effort of modern German and overwhelmingly German-language scholarship more widely available to Anglophone scholarship on the empire. Archaeology and ancient history are international enterprises characterized by specific national scholarly traditions; this is notably true of the study of Roman-era Germania. This volume compromises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars working in Germany, presenting the latest developments in current research as well as situating their work within wider international scholarship through a series of critical responses from other, very different, national perspectives. In doing so, this book aims to reveal the riches of the archaeology of Roman Germany, promote the achievements of German scholars in the area, and help facilitate continued English and German language discourses on the Roman era.

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Prideaux, Humphrey. The True Nature Of Imposture Fully Displayed In The Life Of Mahomet: With A Discourse Annexed For The Vindication Of Christianity. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Prideaux, Humphrey. The True Nature Of Imposture Fully Displayed In The Life Of Mahomet: With A Discourse Annexed For The Vindication Of Christianity. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Heffer, Chris. All Bullshit and Lies? Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190923280.001.0001.

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In a post-factual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they partisanly confirm one’s preexisting beliefs, this book asks the following crucial questions: How can one identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse? How can one know when their use is ethically wrong? How can one judge untruthfulness in the messiness of situated discourse? Drawing on pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and law, All Bullshit and Lies? develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing untruthful discourse in situated context. The TRUST (Trust-Related Untruthfulness in Situated Text) framework sees untruthfulness as encompassing not just deliberate manipulations of what you believe to be the truth (the insincerity of withholding, misleading, and lying), but also the distortions that arise pathologically from an irresponsible attitude toward the truth (dogma, distortion, and bullshit). Truth is often not “in play” (as in jokes or fiction), or concealing it can achieve a greater good (as in saving another’s face). Untruthfulness becomes unethical in discourse, though, when it unjustifiably breaches the trust an interlocutor invests in the speaker. In such cases, the speaker becomes willfully insincere or epistemically negligent and thus culpable to a greater or lesser degree. In addition to the theoretical framework, the book provides a clear, practical heuristic for analyzing discursive untruthfulness and applies it to such cases of public discourse as the Brexit “battle bus,” Trump’s tweet about voter fraud, Blair’s and Bush’s claims about weapons of mass destruction, and the multiple forms of untruthfulness associated with the Skripal poisoning case.

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Hindmarsh, D. Bruce. The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190616694.001.0001.

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The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism sheds new light on the nature of evangelical religion by locating its rise with reference to those consequential changes in Anglo-American society we now routinely acknowledge with the terms Modernity, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. Bringing together a wide range of sources, the book makes meaningful connections between the Protestant evangelical awakening and the history of science, law, art, and literature in the eighteenth century. There was a profound turn toward nature and the authority of natural knowledge in each of these discourses and a more democratic public sphere available for debating contemporary concerns. In this modern context, evangelicals forcefully pressed their agenda for “true religion,” believing it was still possible to experience “the life of God in the soul of man.” The results were dramatic and disruptive. This book provides a fresh perspective, and presents new research, on the religious thought of leading figures such as John Wesley and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, and Jonathan Edwards, but it also traces the significance of evangelical spirituality for elites and non-elites across multiple genres including not only theology, but also natural and moral philosophy, poetry, painting, literature, and music. Viewing devotion, culture, and ideas together, it is possible to see the advent of evangelicalism as a significant new episode in the history of Christian spirituality.

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Barrell, Cheever George. True Christian Patriot, a Discourse on the Virtues and Public Services of the Late Judge Jay: Delivered Before the American Peace Society. HardPress, 2020.

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Goshen-Gottstein, Alon, ed. Religious Truth. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786942289.001.0001.

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Truth informs much of the self-understanding of religious believers. Accordingly, understanding what we mean by 'truth' is a key challenge to interreligious collaboration. This book considers what is meant by truth in classical and contemporary Jewish thought, and it explores how making the notion of truth more nuanced can enable interfaith dialogue. The chapters take a range of approaches: some focus on philosophy proper, others on the intersection with the history of ideas, while others engage with the history of Jewish mysticism and thought. Together they open up the notion of truth in Jewish religious discourse and suggest ways in which upholding a notion of one's religion as true may be reconciled with an appreciation of other faiths. By combining philosophical and theological thinking with concrete case studies, and discussion of precedents and textual resources within Judaism, the volume proposes new interpretations of the concept of truth, going beyond traditional exclusivist uses of the term. A key aim is to help Jews seeking dialogue with other religions to do so while remaining true to their own faith tradition: in pursuit of this, the volume concludes with suggestions of how the ideas presented can be applied in practice.

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Wright, Cory, and Bradley Armour-Garb. Pluralism and the Liar. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199896042.003.0014.

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Pluralists maintain that there is more than one truth property in virtue of which bearers are true. Unfortunately, it is not yet clear how they diagnose the liar paradox or what resources they have available to treat it. This chapter considers one recent attempt by Cotnoir (2013b) to treat the Liar. It argues that pluralists should reject the version of pluralism that Cotnoir assumes, discourse pluralism, in favor of a more naturalized approach to truth predication in real languages, which should be a desideratum on any successful pluralist conception. Appealing to determination pluralism instead, which focuses on truth properties, it then proposes an alternative treatment to the Liar that shows liar sentences to be undecidable.

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Puccini, Beatriz Cicala. Consciência política e humanização do parto a luta pelo direito à formação de obstetrizes na Universidade de São Paulo. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-345-9.

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In today's globalized world, violence is structural and connected to the still unmet demands of society. Brazil has one of the highest violence rates, aided by the chronic socio-economic inequality which our political model insists on reproducing and deepening. Violence against women has pride of place in this picture. In the Europe of XVIII century, women's vocation for motherhood was praised, aligned with philosophical values and discourses of the time, giving rise to unconditional love as a true myth founder of the ideology in the bourgeois economy of early capitalism. The idea of a paradigmatic body is anchored in a dualism that is both physiological and anatomic and in which ethical, moral, psychological and socio-cultural aspects will unveil. The transition from home childbirth to hospital childbirth initiates the phase of maternity and childhood protective public policies. A consequence, however, was shutting out feminine participation, preventing its main role in childbirth and resulting in us boasting one of the highest indexes of unnecessary C-sections in the world. The modern woman has gained a lot in autonomy. She has freed herself from moral, social and legal ties, nevertheless she is and always will be the owner of the biological body that is capable of generating a new life and guarantee the preservation of human species. The humanization of birth and the health of mother and child is pressing in the country, along with international reference organizations in this area, as the author of the present work defends and proves.

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