Facing Up

Author : Barbara H. Fried
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192587091

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Facing Up to Scarcity by Barbara H. Fried Pdf

Facing Up to Scarcity offers a powerful critique of the nonconsequentialist approaches that have been dominant in Anglophone moral and political thought over the last fifty years. In these essays Barbara H. Fried examines the leading schools of contemporary nonconsequentialist thought, including Rawlsianism, Kantianism, libertarianism, and social contractarianism. In the realm of moral philosophy, she argues that nonconsequentialist theories grounded in the sanctity of "individual reasons" cannot solve the most important problems taken to be within their domain. Those problems, which arise from irreducible conflicts among legitimate (and often identical) individual interests, can be resolved only through large-scale interpersonal trade-offs of the sort that nonconsequentialism foundationally rejects. In addition to scrutinizing the internal logic of nonconsequentialist thought, Fried considers the disastrous social consequences when nonconsequentialist intuitions are allowed to drive public policy. In the realm of political philosophy, she looks at the treatment of distributive justice in leading nonconsequentialist theories. Here one can design distributive schemes roughly along the lines of the outcomes favoured—but those outcomes are not logically entailed by the normative premises from which they are ostensibly derived, and some are extraordinarily strained interpretations of those premises. Fried concludes, as a result, that contemporary nonconsequentialist political philosophy has to date relied on weak justifications for some very strong conclusions.

Author : Daniel Liechty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793655431

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Facing Up to Mortality by Daniel Liechty Pdf

Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious dialogue focuses on beliefs and practices, thus delineating areas of disagreement as a starting point, these chapters foster interactive communication rooted in areas of the universal human experience. Thus by demonstration these authors argue for the integrity and efficacy of this approach for pursuing intercultural and interdisciplinary communication.

Author : Sholto Cross,Alan Whiteside
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781349225972

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Facing Up to AIDS by Sholto Cross,Alan Whiteside Pdf

This study looks at the global plague which is threatening to engulf South Africa at a crucial moment in its history. Economists, demographers and health planners present a range of new methods of understanding the likely course of the disease, drawn from the most recent research.

Author : International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows. Symposium
Publisher : IITA
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9789781312984

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Facing Up to Food Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa by International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows. Symposium Pdf

Author : Steven Weinberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674066403

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Facing Up by Steven Weinberg Pdf

The New York Times’s James Glanz has called Steven Weinberg “perhaps the world’s most authoritative proponent of the idea that physics is hurtling toward a ‘final theory,’ a complete explanation of nature’s particles and forces that will endure as the bedrock of all science forevermore. He is also a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate—and sting... He recently received the Lewis Thomas Prize, awarded to the researcher who best embodies ‘the scientist as poet.’” Both the brilliant scientist and the provocative writer are fully present in this book as Weinberg pursues his principal passions, theoretical physics and a deeper understanding of the culture, philosophy, history, and politics of science.Each of these essays, which span fifteen years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Each is preceded by a new introduction that explains its provenance and, if necessary, brings it up to date. Together, they afford the general reader the unique pleasure of experiencing the superb sense, understanding, and knowledge of one of the most interesting and forceful scientific minds of our era.

Author : Bear Grylls
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780330515399

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Facing Up by Bear Grylls Pdf

'No one could fail to be gripped by his heartfelt excitement and emotion over what was the adventure of a lifetime' Independent At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became one of the youngest Britons to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty coping with the adverse effects of mountaineering. Nevertheless, only two years after breaking his back in a freefall parachuting accident, Bear Grylls overcame severe weather conditions, fatigue, dehydration and a last-minute illness to stand on top of the world's highest mountain. Facing Up is the story of his adventure, his courage and humour, his friendship and faith.

Author : Adam S. Posen ,Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881327328

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Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth by Adam S. Posen ,Jeromin Zettelmeyer Pdf

Labor productivity growth in the United States and other advanced countries has slowed dramatically since the mid-2000s, a major factor in their economic stagnation and political turmoil. Economists have been debating the causes of the slowdown and possible remedies for some years. Unaddressed in this discussion is what happens if the slowdown is not reversed. In this volume, a dozen renowned scholars analyze the impact of sustained lower productivity growth on public finances, social protection, trade, capital flows, wages, inequality, and, ultimately, politics in the advanced industrial world. They conclude that slow productivity growth could lead to unpredictable and possibly dangerous new problems, aggravating inequality and increasing concentration of market power. Facing Up to Low Productivity Growth also proposes ways that countries can cope with these consequences.

Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild,Nathan Scovronick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780199839681

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The American Dream and the Public Schools by Jennifer L. Hochschild,Nathan Scovronick Pdf

The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to succeed and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how policies to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class, and often conflict with policies that are intended to benefit everyone. They propose a framework that builds on our nation's rapidly changing population in order to help Americans get past acrimonious debates about schooling. Their goal is to make public education work better so that all children can succeed.

Author : Mark Gibney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812240332

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The Age of Apology by Mark Gibney Pdf

In The Age of Apology twenty-two law, politics, and human rights scholars explore the legal, political, social, historical, moral, religious, and anthropological aspects of Western apologies.

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005539823

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Facing Up To Modernity by Peter L. Berger Pdf

Concerns the growing problems the modernity brings including marriage, psychoanalysis, the secularization of religion, corruption of pornography, and more.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264439665

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Managing Climate Risks, Facing up to Losses and Damages by OECD Pdf

This report addresses the urgent issue of climate-related losses and damages. Climate change is driving fundamental changes to the planet with adverse impacts on human livelihoods and well-being, putting development gains at risk.

Author : Dominic Casserley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471592196

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Facing Up to the Risks by Dominic Casserley Pdf

Tried-and-tested methods for financial institution success in a risky economy Written by a partner of McKinsey & Company, the world’s largest and most influential management consulting firm, this book offers wisdom from the cumulative experience of thousands of financial firms in successful risk management. You’ll find out how to make these winning strategies work for your company’s success and learn what you must know to cope with the uncertainties of tomorrow’s headlines. Facing Up to the Risks: Covers the ramifications of the S & L debacle, the Third World debt crisis, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and other major events with an impact on the financial community Provides four critical skills that can make or break a financial firm and five proven strategies for successful risk management Based on a major research project, on years of international consulting experience, and on contributions from over 40 experts around the globe Facing Up to the Risks shows you how to embrace today’s risks in ways that will help your company prosper and flourish in the ’90s.

Author : Thomas Zaslavsky
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821818541

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Facing up to Arrangements: Face-Count Formulas for Partitions of Space by Hyperplanes by Thomas Zaslavsky Pdf

Author : John W. de Gruchy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666736809

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Faith Facing Reality by John W. de Gruchy Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have starkly reminded us of the realities that threaten our future on planet Earth. Christian faith is not a way of escaping these realities, but of engaging them in the struggle for justice and peace—motivated by love, enabled by faith and sustained by hope. This is based on the conviction that in Jesus Christ the reality of God has become redemptively embodied within the reality of the world. Written within the context of South Africa but with global vision, and in conversation with the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this book is an attempt to stir up discussion and inform action in connecting worldly and transcendent reality. Inevitably this will be controversial, not least because that is something that Bonhoeffer risked. This is certainly true when it comes to the five realities that provide much of the book’s substance: the persistence of racism, the will-to-power, scientism and soulless technology, the conflict in Israel-Palestine, and the threat of wars and pandemics. Is it possible to believe in the God of Jesus Christ in such a world? If so, what does that mean, and how does it help us live creatively, redemptively, and faithfully? To answer these questions, the author examines the meaning of faith; the human desire for transcendence; and the need for conversion, wisdom, solidarity, and responsible freedom.

Author : Adam Gussow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469660370

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Whose Blues? by Adam Gussow Pdf

Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond the black southern world of its origins. But not everybody is happy about that. If there's "No black. No white. Just the blues," as one familiar meme suggests, why do some blues people hear such pronouncements as an aggressive attempt at cultural appropriation and an erasure of traumatic histories that lie deep in the heart of the music? Then again, if "blues is black music," as some performers and critics insist, what should we make of the vibrant global blues scene, with its all-comers mix of nationalities and ethnicities? In Whose Blues?, award-winning blues scholar and performer Adam Gussow confronts these challenging questions head-on. Using blues literature and history as a cultural anchor, Gussow defines, interprets, and makes sense of the blues for the new millennium. Drawing on the blues tradition's major writers including W. C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Amiri Baraka, and grounded in his first-person knowledge of the blues performance scene, Gussow's thought-provoking book kickstarts a long overdue conversation.