The Odyssey by Ian Crowe
English summary: Considering ethical standards, the asymmetry of the relationship between nurses and their patients demands a profound analysis of different concepts of rationality, personality and human dignity. This comparison of current concepts of philosophical ethics calls for an integrative solution, which acknowledges the fragility of life and reestablishes the symmetry in the nursing relationship. Only this acknowledgement of fragility enables nurses to treat their patients with genuine empathy, acknowledge their individuality and see their responsibility as an answer to the needs of their patients. In this book, the author engages in an interdisciplinary dialogue between applied nursing science and philosophical ethics. As a result, it shows that the separation of personality and moral rights is necessary to establish the moral weight of people in need of care in its own right. German text. German description: Frauke Lanius nimmt das spezifische Element von Pflege in den Blick: Die Nahe zweier Menschen, und zwar die des pflegenden und die des zu pflegenden Menschen. Diese Beziehung ist charakterisiert von struktureller Asymmetrie. Im Hinblick auf ihre ethische Grundlegung erfordert sie eine tiefgreifende Auseinandersetzung mit verschiedenen Konzepten von Rationalitat, Person und Wurde. Der hier vorgenommene Vergleich einschlagiger aktueller Theorien der philosophischen Ethik fuhrt zu einer integrativen Losung, die uber die Freilegung und Anerkennung der Fragilitat des Daseins in eine Resymmetrisierung der Pflegebeziehung mundet. Erst diese Symmetrie lasst ein pflegerisches Begegnungshandeln zu, das sich an Empathie mit dem pflegebedurftigen Gegenuber, der Anerkennung seiner Andersartigkeit und der Verantwortung als Antwortlichkeit orientiert. Dieser Band tritt damit in den interdisziplinaren Dialog zwischen philosophischer Ethik und angewandter Pflegewissenschaft. Ergebnis ist, dass die Entkopplung von Personalitat und moralischen Schutzrechten notwendig ist, um dem spezifischen ethischen Eigengewicht gerade mental beeintrachtiger pflegebedurftiger Menschen gerecht zu werden.
Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives. He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey - are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.
In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope. We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.
Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles's Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus's Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer's Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer's Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid. Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780977626991 |
| ISBN 10 | 0977626997 |
| Title | The Odyssey |
| Author | Ian Crowe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Richer Resources Publications |
| Year published | 2006-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 500 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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