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Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781135933685
In Defending Ideals Cornell looks at the crisis on the left and asks how we can turn back toward more left wing ideals.
Author : James Robert Flynn
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0803219946
One of the principal moral and psychological problems of our time is whether humane ideals can be defended. Loss of faith in the objectivity of ethics has encouraged a sense of hopelessness. The notion that no ideal is better than any other, that a humane commitment has no rational advantage over Nietzsche's contempt for ordinary people, has been accused of leaving our civilization without self-confidence or a purpose. James R. Flynn rejects attempts to salvage ethical objectivity as futile and counterproductive. Instead, he uses philosophical analysis to demonstrate the relevance of logic and evidence to moral debate. He then uses modern social science to refute racists, Social Darwinists, Nietzsche, and the meritocracy thesis of The Bell Curve. Flynn concludes that the great post-Enlightenment project?justice for all races and classes, the reduction of inequality, and the abolition of privilege?retains its moral dignity and relevance.
Author : Luc Juillet,Kenneth A. Rasmussen
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776617770
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.
Author : Luc Juillet,Ken Rasmussen
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776618258
In 1908, after decades of struggling with a public administration undermined by systemic patronage, the Canadian parliament decided that public servants would be selected on the basis of merit, through a system administered by an independent agency: the Public Service Commission of Canada. This history, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Commission, recounts its unique contribution to the development of an independent public service, which has become a pillar of Canadian parliamentary democracy.
Author : Linda Joyce Manney
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902723051X
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types, which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts, middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to demonstrate more clearly the semantic distinctions and pragmatic functions encoded by inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Major semantic groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to varying degrees.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210026416865
Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674982192
Idealization is a basic feature of human thought. We proceed “as if” our representations were true, while knowing they are not. Kwame Anthony Appiah defends the centrality of the imagination in science, morality, and everyday life and shows that our best chance for accessing reality is to open our minds to a plurality of idealized depictions.
Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674495944
In a culture of the Self that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, we spare little thought for the great ideals—courage, contemplation, and compassion—that once gave life meaning. Here, Mark Edmundson makes an impassioned attempt to defend the value of these ancient ideals and to resurrect Soul in the modern world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Agnosticism
ISBN : WISC:89062392410
Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015031840195
During the 1980s, 2,000 family farms went out of business every week. Fields Without Dreams tells Hanson's passionate, angry, loving, and lyrical story. A fifth-generation California vine and fruit grower, Hanson and his family faced an overwhelming personal crisis when the great "raisin boom" of the 1970s was followed by the great "raisin crash" of the 1980s.
Author : Stephen Nathanson
Publisher : Open Court Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812692624
The Ideal of Rationality presents an evaluation of all the main varieties of rationalism, in clear and jargon-free language. Different notions of rationality - such as means-end, conception, hedonism, and the evil-avoidance view - are examined and rejected, in favor of the theory that to act rationally is to 'act for the best', a theory Nathanson characterizes as "critical pluralism." Among present-day thinkers whose ideas are scrutinized are Richard Brandt, Bernard Gert, Gilbert Harman, John Kekes, Robert Nozick, Karl Popper, and John Rawls.
Author : Halford John Mackinder,Sir Halford John Mackinder
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Geography
ISBN : 9781428981515
Author : Tisa Wenger
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469634630
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse--Wenger calls it "religious freedom talk--that cannot possibly be separated from the evolving politics of race and empire. More often than not, Wenger demonstrates, religious freedom talk worked to privilege the dominant white Christian population. At the same time, a diverse array of minority groups at home and colonized people abroad invoked and reinterpreted this ideal to defend themselves and their ways of life. In so doing they posed sharp challenges to the racial and religious exclusions of American life. People of almost every religious stripe have argued, debated, negotiated, and brought into being an ideal called American religious freedom, subtly transforming their own identities and traditions in the process. In a post-9/11 world, Wenger reflects, public attention to religious freedom and its implications is as consequential as it has ever been.
Author : Andrew Koppelman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674071070
Although it is often charged with hostility toward religion, First Amendment doctrine in fact treats religion as a distinctive human good. It insists, however, that this good be understood abstractly, without the state taking sides on any theological question. Here, a leading scholar of constitutional law explains the logic of this uniquely American form of neutrality—more religion-centered than liberal theorists propose, and less overtly theistic than conservatives advocate. The First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion is under threat. Growing numbers of critics, including a near-majority of the Supreme Court, seem ready to cast aside the ideal of American religious neutrality. Andrew Koppelman defends that ideal and explains why protecting religion from political manipulation is imperative in an America of growing religious diversity. Understanding American religious neutrality, Koppelman shows, can explain some familiar puzzles. How can Bible reading in public schools be impermissible while legislative sessions begin with prayers, Christmas is an official holiday, and the words “under God” appear in the Pledge of Allegiance? Are faith-based social services, public financing of religious schools, or the teaching of intelligent design constitutional? Combining legal, historical, and philosophical analysis, Koppelman shows how law coherently navigates these conundrums. He explains why laws must have a secular legislative purpose, why old, but not new, ceremonial acknowledgments of religion are permitted, and why it is fair to give religion special treatment.
Author : Richmond M. Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112105110057