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The Nicomachean Ethics
In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our flourishing as members of a community, and ones that allow us to engage in god-like contemplation. Contemporary ethical writings on the role and importance of the moral virtues such as courage and justice have drawn inspiration from this work, which also contains important discussions on responsibility for actions, on the nature of practical reasoning, and on friendship and its role in the best life.
This new edition retains and lightly revises David Ross's justly admired translation. It also includes a valuable introduction to this seminal work, and notes designed to elucidate Aristotle's arguments.
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Veselo o saleziánoch
Výstižne, jednoducho, radostne… Takto sa autor snaží priblížiť históriu saleziánov počas ich storočného pôsobenia na Slovensku. Množstvo príbehov a svedectiev ukazuje, ako bola táto rehoľa od počiatku zrastená so slovenským ľudom. Dá sa povedať, že saleziáni s mnohými z vás či z vašich blízkych hladovali, spolu sa radovali a za komunizmu i sedeli vo väzení. Ale prežili a sú tu. Cieľ knihy je veľmi jednoduchý: Nezabudnúť na všetko to krásne a dobré, čo saleziáni priniesli do nášho národa. A aby v srdciach ľudí vznikla vďačnosť dobrotivému Bohu a Panne Márii za všetko, čo s ich a vašou pomocou dokázali.
O autorovi
Jozef Luscoň (1959) je salezián kňaz. Narodil sa na Orave, študoval katechetiku v Krakove a masmédiá v Ríme. Svoje vedomosti odovzdával študentom na Katolíckej univerzite v Ružomberku. Autorsky prispieva do viacerých médií. Stále má kontakt s mladými a rád pre nich píše rôzne publikácie a články. Osvojil si totiž filozofiu dona Bosca: „Kam nemôžem prísť ja, pošlem knihu.“
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