This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living the kind of compassionate life that holds out the promise in our contemporary world of achieving something approximating universal wellness on a healthy planet at peace with itself. This work argues that the three principal subjects of the studyindependently of one anotherused the same dialectical method to reach the same dialectically derived conclusion about how humans can live redemptively in a fractured world.

Explores a linkage between Bernard Shaw, the 20th century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth Argues that they used the same dialectical method to reach the same conclusion about how humanity can live Explains the basics of dialectics in nontechnical terms

Autorentext

Howard Einsohn was a part-time instructor at Middlesex Community College and Wesleyan University's Institute of Lifelong Learning for a combined total of 15 years (2004-2019), most of which were spent at the former institution. During this period, he taught courses in writing, advanced writing, technical writing, literature surveys, drama and the short story, as well as courses on Ibsen, Flannery O'Connor, and Tim O'Brien.

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Chapter 1: Dialectics.- Chapter 2: The Wisdom-Power Dialectic.- Chapter 3: The Ethics-Morality Dialectic.- Chapter 4: The Ideology Utopa Dialectic.- Chapter 5: The Theism-Atheism Dialectic.- Chapter 6: Summation and Closing Thoughts.