A fascinating dual biography proves that controversial Royal Family members are not necessarily only a feature of late 20th- or 21st-century lifeEdward VII (1841-1910) and his grandson Edward VIII (1894-1972) were born in different eras, but it is illuminating to compare the early and middle years of the two Princes of Wales as kings in waiting and discover how their youth informed their years on the British throne. The privileges of rank aside, they were heirs to an unenviable role, and this study presents a unique portrait of strained apprenticeships for which there was no satisfactory precedent. Theirs was an upbringing dictated by dogmatic prescription and the heavy weight of obligation. As they pursued their lives according to their distinct personalities, they were never relieved of parental strictures, especially with regard to Queen Victoria and her eldest son, who filled the void with shallow interests, a profligate style of living, and the delights of Parisian nightlife. Inevitably the two princes were consigned to filling much of their time with insubstantial engagements not best suited to their characters and which reveal a common vulnerability. In the case of the future Edward VIII, he took a jaundiced view of matters of state and preferred dance floors, riding to hounds, and the ministrations of lovers. This book is the story of the heirs’ progress that provides often unexpected perspectives on two public figures better known through the history of their respective reigns. For readers in this era, the similar position of Prince Charles ensures that this survey is a timely as well as a surprisingly entertaining read.

The Playboy Princes: The Apprentice Years of Edward VII and VIII

Biographies & Memoirs

Beer, Peter

Leaders & Notable People

Peter Owen Publishers

Leben und Wirken des Rabbi Moses ben Maimon gewönlich Rambam auch Miamonides genannt. (German Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Nabu Press

Handbuch Der Mosaischen Religion: Für Die Jüngere Jugend, Erster Band (German Edition)

History

Europe

Geschichte, Lehren Und Meinungen Aller Bestandenen Und Noch Bestehenden Religiosen Sekten Der Juden Und Der Geheimlehre Oder Cabbalah V1 (1822) (German Edition)

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Geschichte, Lehren und Meinungen Aller Bestandenen und Noch Bestehenden Religiösen Sekten der Juden und der Geheimlehre oder Kabbalah, zweiter Band (German Edition)

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Geschichte, Lehren und Meinungen aller bestandenen und noch bestehenden religiösen Sekten der Juden und der Geheimlehre oder Cabbalah, Erster Band (German Edition)

Bernard Lonergan was a mid 20th century Canadian philosopher and theologian. This book aims to help form a basis for inquiry into Lonergan's achievement in his new approach to the great philosophical questions: what do I do when I know something? (cognitional theory), why is doing that 'knowing'? (epistemology) and what do I know when I do that? (metaphysics). 
Lonergan deals with these questions somewhat more deeply in his major works, Insight (1957, 1992) and Method in Theology (1972, 2017). Here he invites one to discover in oneself the dynamic structure of one's own cognitional and moral being and in doing this, one finds an operative procedure that is not open to radical revision. In fact, Lonergan has unearthed a dynamic, conscious framework for creativity, a method that grounds all investigation that is intelligent and critical. It is a resource that is transcendental in that it is the concrete and dynamic unfolding of human attentiveness, intelligence, reasonableness and responsibility, and this unfolding occurs whenever one uses one's mind in an appropriate fashion. 
This method, for investigators too, is new in its finding eight tasks that are distinct and separable stages in the single process from data to results and can be adapted to any subject in which investigations are responding to past history and are to influence future history.

An Introduction to Bernard Lonergan: Exploring Lonergan's approach to the great philosophical questions

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Sid Harta Publishers

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