Ketidakadilan adalah salah satu bentuk tindak kekerasan. Ketidakadilan sering kali mendorong bangkitnya tindak kekerasan politik, etnis dan rasial. Ketidakadilan juga menghasilkan tindak kekerasan, di mana orang terpaksa memakai kekerasan untuk meluruskan apa yang salah. Adalah sebuah kerinduan yang mendalam di antara kita untuk membangun perdamaian abadi yang berdasarkan pada keadilan. Untuk m…
A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon themselve…
Telaah kritis atas pemikiran para filsof sejak zaman Yunani Kuno sampai abad pertengahan. Komentar-komentar logis dan kritis diberikan tidak untuk menilai, melainkan untuk membuka wawasan/cakrawala pemikiran para pembaca agar terpacu untuk terus belajar dan semakin menjadi Pecinta Kebijakan (philosophia).
The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy brings together a collection of newly commissioned essays which examine fundamental issues in social and political theory. Written by leading social and political philosophers, each essay provides a map to the history of the issue at hand and a judicious assessment of the main arguments that have been brought to bear upon that issue.
Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" (Adrienne Rich), …
Buku ini mengkaji berbagai persoalan moral dan sosial dewasa ini dari perspektif Kristiani: perkawinan, aborsi, perceraian, eutanasia, kejahatan, hukuman mati, pengangguran, seksisme, rasisme, perang, patriotisme, lingkungan hidup, dan sebagainya. Maka sangat tepat dijadikan referensi bagi para pengajar agama, khususnya di perguruan tinggi, para pendamping kelompok kategorial, mahasiswa, atau s…
Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most celebrated proponents of what has become known as the 'postmodern'. More than almost any other contemporary theorist, he has explored the relations between knowledge, art, politics and history, in ways that offer radical new possibilities for thinking about modern culture. Simon Malpas introduces students to issues at the heart of Lyotard's work, includ…