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Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780698184541

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The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene Pdf

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.

Author : D. M. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107142312

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What is a Law of Nature? by D. M. Armstrong Pdf

This book is D. M. Armstrong's influential defense of his original theory of what a law of nature is.

Author : Richard Cumberland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1727
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041207437

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A Treatise of the Laws of Nature by Richard Cumberland Pdf

Author : Christina Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107513211

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Rule of Law for Nature by Christina Voigt Pdf

'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.

Author : Heinrich Albert Rommen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 0865971617

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The Natural Law by Heinrich Albert Rommen Pdf

Originally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as represented in the writings of Cicero, Aquinas, and Hooker and the revolutionary doctrines of natural rights espoused by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Beginning with the legacies of Greek and Roman life and thought, Rommen traces the natural law tradition to its displacement by legal positivism and concludes with what the author calls "the reappearance" of natural law thought in more recent times. In seven chapters each Rommen explores "The History of the Idea of Natural Law" and "The Philosophy and Content of the Natural Law." In his introduction, Russell Hittinger places Rommen's work in the context of contemporary debate on the relevance of natural law to philosophical inquiry and constitutional interpretation. Heinrich Rommen (1897–1967) taught in Germany and England before concluding his distinguished scholarly career at Georgetown University. Russell Hittinger is William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa.

Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400832026

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Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin Pdf

This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains one of the most challenging and controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the interpretation of many of his ideas, particularly his views about natural law and natural right. In this book, Perez Zagorin argues that these two concepts are the twin foundations of the entire structure of Hobbes's moral and political thought. Zagorin clears up numerous misconceptions about Hobbes and his relation to earlier natural law thinkers, in particular Hugo Grotius, and he reasserts the often overlooked role of the Hobbesian law of nature as a moral standard from which even sovereign power is not immune. Because Hobbes is commonly thought to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated and widely assumed to depend entirely on individual self-interest. Zagorin reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law. Hobbes and the Law of Nature is a major contribution to our understanding of Hobbes's moral, legal, and political philosophy, and a book rich in interpretive and critical insights into Hobbes's writing and thought.

Author : Simon P. Kennedy
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Natural law
ISBN : 1474493998

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Reforming the Law of Nature by Simon P. Kennedy Pdf

Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and secular conceptions of politics.

Author : Stephen Mumford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134386512

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Laws in Nature by Stephen Mumford Pdf

This book outlines a major new theory of natural laws and addresses questions currently being debated by metaphysicians.

Author : Peter Mittelstaedt,Paul A. Weingartner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540283034

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Laws of Nature by Peter Mittelstaedt,Paul A. Weingartner Pdf

Thisbook isnotatextbook tobecomeacquainted with thelaws ofnature. An elementaryknowledgeaboutlawsofnature,inparticularthelawsofphysics,is presupposed. Thebookisratherintendedtoprovideaclari?cationofconcepts and properties of the laws of nature. The authors would like to emphasise that this book has been developed – created – as a real teamwork. Although the chapters (and in some cases parts of the chapters) were originally written by one of the two authors, all of them were discussed thoroughly and in detail and have been revised and complemented afterwards. Even if both authors were in agreement on most of the foundational issues discussed in the book, they did not feel it necessary to balance every viewpoint. Thus some individual and personal di?erence or emphasis will still be recognisable from the chapters written by the di?erent authors. In this sense the authors feel speci?cally responsible for the chapters as follows: Mittelstaedt for Chaps. 4, 9. 3, 10, 11. 2, 12, 13 and Weingartner for Chaps. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8. 2, 9. 2, 9. 4. The remaining parts are joint sections. Most of the chapters are formulated as questions and they begin with arguments pro and contra. Then a detailed answer is proposed which contains a systematic discussion of the question. This is the respective main part of the chapter. It sometimes begins with a survey of the problem by giving some important answers to it from history (cf. Chaps. 6 and 9).

Author : John W. Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 082295852X

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Readings on Laws of Nature by John W. Carroll Pdf

As a subject of inquiry, laws of nature exist in the overlap between metaphysics and the philosophy of science. Over the past three decades, this area of study has become increasingly central to the philosophy of science. It also has relevance to a variety of topics in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Readings on Laws of Nature is the first anthology to offer a contemporary history of the problem of laws. The book is organized around three key issues: the matter of distinguishing laws from mere correlations, questions concerning inductive reasoning and laws, and the consideration of whether there are any true laws in science. Designed for class use, the anthology covers a remarkably broad range of views and concerns, and consists exclusively of articles that have proved highly influential in the field. Readings on Laws of Nature will also serve as a valuable research and reference tool for philosophers who do not specialize in the subject, but who have occasion to examine concepts relating to the laws of nature in their own work.

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317089766

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Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe by Michael Stolleis Pdf

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa. Historians of science, law, philosophy, and theology from Europe and North America here come together to address these central themes and to consider the question; was the emergence of natural law both in European jurisprudence and natural philosophy merely a coincidence, or did these disciplinary traditions develop within a common conceptual matrix, in which theological, philosophical, and political arguments converged to make the analogy between legal and natural orders compelling. This book will stimulate new debate in the areas of intellectual history and the history of philosophy, as well as the natural and human sciences in general.

Author : Jonathan Crowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498302

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Natural Law and the Nature of Law by Jonathan Crowe Pdf

Presents a systematic, contemporary defence of the natural law outlook in ethics, politics and jurisprudence.

Author : Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1716
Category : Ethics
ISBN : PRNC:32101068789955

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The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature by Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf Pdf

Author : R. Stephen Berry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300238785

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Three Laws of Nature by R. Stephen Berry Pdf

A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with an overview of the three laws of thermodynamics, MacArthur "genius grant" winner R. Stephen Berry explains in this short book the fundamentals of a fundamental science. Readers learn both the history of thermodynamics, which began with attempts to solve everyday engineering problems, and ongoing controversy and unsolved puzzles. The exposition, suitable for both students and armchair physicists, requires no previous knowledge of the subject and only the simplest mathematics, taught as needed. With this better understanding of one science, readers also gain an appreciation of the role of research in science, the provisional nature of scientific theory, and the ways scientific exploration can uncover fundamental truths. Thus, from a science of everyday experience, we learn about the nature of the universe.

Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780670881468

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The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Pdf

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.