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Ethics was a central preoccupation of medieval philosophers, and medieval ethical thought is rich, diverse, and inventive. Yet standard histories of ethics often skip quickly over the medievals, and histories of medieval philosophy often fail to do justice to the centrality of ethical concerns in medieval thought. This volume presents the full range of medieval ethics in Christian, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy in a way that is accessible to a non-specialist and reveals the liveliness and sophistication of medieval ethical thought. In Part I there is a series of historical chapters presenting developmental and contextual accounts of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish ethics. Part II offers topical chapters on such central themes as happiness, virtue, law, and freedom, as well as on less-studied aspects of medieval ethics such as economic ethics, the ethical dimensions of mysticism, and sin and grace. This will be an important volume for students of ethics and medieval philosophy

"An annotated translation, by a distinguished translator and scholar of medieval philosophy, of the complete treatises of Anselm of Canterbury, with selected letters and prayers. A bibliography and index will be included"--

This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city's role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions.It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge contribution that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs made to the world's first modern metropolis, as well as the serious challenges the animals posed

Preface -- The discovery of what it means to be a black boy -- A wicked genie -- What about your friends? -- Street dreams (who am I to disagree?) -- Slip the yoke -- You can't go home again -- Beginning to see the light -- To a worm in a horseradish, the world is a horseradish -- Every secret loses its force -- Epilogue.

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- Socialization: A Brief Review of Directions of Research -- The Nonsocial Behavior of Young Liberian Kpelle Children and Its Social Context -- Child Rearing in India: A Case Study in Change and Modernization -- Structural Changes in the Family in Kerala, India -- Psychological Correlates of Family Socialization in the United States and Korea -- Aspects of Personality in a Communal Society -- After Coming of Age: Adult Awareness of Age Norms -- Delegation of Parental Roles in West Africa and the West Indies -- To Be Treated as a Child of the Home: Black Carib Child Lending in a British West Indian Society -- Who Raises Black Children: Transactions of Child Givers and Child Receivers -- The Functionally Extended Family in Lebanon and the Effects of Its Solidarity on the Mental Health of the Individual -- Differential Enculturation and Social Class in Canadian Schools -- On the Origin of the Socialization Process -- PART TWO -- Infant Vocalization: Communication Before Speech -- Language, Paralanguage, and Body Motion in the Structure of Conversations -- Human Linguistics and Face-to-Face Interaction -- Interactions and the Control of Behavior -- Proxemic Research: A Check on the Validity of Its Techniques -- A Photographic Method for the Recording and Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Proxemic Interaction Patterns -- Linguistic and Kinesic Correlates in Code Switching -- Towards an Operational Definition of Self-Awareness -- Communicative Styles in Two Cultures: Japan and the United States -- The Social Function of Experiences of Altered Perception -- PART THREE -- The Individual as a Crucial Locus of Culture -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Over the past half century the language of human rights has gained such dominance in moral, civic, and ecclesiastical discourse that ethical and social questions are increasingly framed in terms of rights. Yet the vast literature dealing with human and civil rights focuses almost exclusively on the juridical and practical ramifications of rights, rather than the philosophical, moral, and foundational aspects. As a result, the proliferation of rights claims and catalogs has not been accompanied by a reasoned case for the existence of human rights or rational criteria for distinguishing true moral entitlement from spurious claims. Who Is My Neighbor? makes a case for human rights as moral entitlements grounded in the dignity of the human person. Drawing upon insights of Thomistic Personalism, Thomas D. Williams sets forth the anthropological, philosophical, and theological bases for asserting that the human person must always be loved as an end and never used as a mere means. Williams grants ample space to critics of rights theory and systematically answers their arguments by showing how, rightly understood, human rights dovetail with classical ethical theory and traditional formulations of justice and natural law. Williams suggests that rights language not only does no violence to classical ethics but serves to highlight certain fundamental truths about the human person essential to right human relations