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Ethics and time : ethos of temporal orientation in politics and religion of the Niger Delta /
Ethics and Time investigates how temporal orientation influence social-ethics. Re-conceptualizing temporal orientation as the production of new temporalities that allow humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles that impede their flourishing, it shows how a social group&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Ethics and Time investigates how temporal orientation influence social-ethics. Re-conceptualizing temporal orientation as the production of new temporalities that allow humans to manifest their potentialities and creatively resist obstacles that impede their flourishing, it shows how a social group's orientation to time frames, informs, and drives its politics and religion. It uses an African culture as a practical case study to concretely illustrate the form and dynamics of the interconnections. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 178 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739150306 0739150308 1282922009 9781282922006 9786612922008 6612922001 |