9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook work ethic (redirected fromProtestant ethic) Encyclopedia work ethic n. An ethical principle that places greatest value on hard work and diligence. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edi...
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BooksBOOK REVIEWS 985 and Charles Taylor's hermeneutical explorations of what conversation entails. These essays started life as papers for a colloquium at the University of Leeds in June 2003 and have been reworked, encompassing recent writings including Habermas's Between Naturalism and Relig...
I didn't really explore this angle in the review, but I am brewing up a proper Socratic exchange with the Scottish writer Ewan Morrison, whose clarion-call to prevent"The End of Books"at this years Edinburgh International Books Festival caused quite a fuss. Ewan is embracing and endorsing Le...
When Will Hutton reviewed The Play Ethic in the Guardiani, he fascinatingly bundled it in with books on idleness and slowness, and then connected it to Joseph Nye's concept of soft power. These visions of squashy, messy, bucolic, non-coercive Western-ness, concluded Hutton, "might be doing...
Choi did once try to get at this question in alab experiment, using research subjects with different religious backgrounds. CHOI: So, they came into the lab and they did a series of sentence scrambles where they had to rearrange words in order to form English sentences that made sense. And...
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BooksThe New Testament includes many texts that seem to be offensive or just plain wrong on the issues of sexuality and gender. Watson addresses three of the most controversial texts and proposes to find the kernel of truth in each. His method is to devote one chapter to contemporary authors...
I'm a player-with-microphones-and-laptops - and from this, much else in my life has flowed. For example, in a conversation earlier this week, I was exploring my own direct experiences of what a creative space feels like, in order to inform how organisations might build their own. ...
There are groaning shelves of books which celebrate the rise of the “free agent nation” (Daniel Pink in the US) and the “portfolio worker” (Charles Handy in the UK). Some, such as the sociologist Richard Sennett, bemoan the “corrosion of character” caused by continuous, stable occupat...