Human Rights and Common Good

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191616192
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Book Synopsis Human Rights and Common Good by : John Finnis

Download or read book Human Rights and Common Good written by John Finnis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This central volume in the Collected Essays brings together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to central issues in political philosophy. The volume begins by examining the general theory of political community and social justice. It includes the powerful and well-known Maccabaean Lecture on Bills of Rights — a searching critique of Ronald Dworkin's moral-political arguments and conclusions, of the European Court of Human Rights' approach to fundamental rights, and of judicial review as a constitutional institution. It is followed by an equally searching analysis of Kant's thought on the intersection of law, right, and ethics. Other papers in the book's opening section include an early assessment of Rawls's A Theory of Justice, a radical re-interpretation of Aquinas on limited government and the significance of the private/public distinction, and a challenging paper on virtue and the constitution. The volume then focuses on central problems in modern political communities, including the achievement of justice in work and distribution; the practice of punishment; war and justice; the public control of euthanasia and abortion; and the nature of marriage and the common good. There are careful and vigorous critiques of Nietzsche on morality, Hart on punishment, Dworkin on the enforcement of morality and on euthanasia, Rawls on justice and law, Thomson on the woman's right to choose, Habermas on abortion, Nussbaum and Koppelman on same-sex relations, and Dummett and Weithman on open borders. The volume's previously unpublished papers include a foundational consideration of labour unions, a fresh statement of a new grounding for the morality of sex, a surprising reading of C.S. Lewis's Abolition of Man on contraception, and an introduction reviewing some of the remarkable changes in private and public morality over the past half-century.

Collected Essays

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789627869
Total Pages : 443 pages
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Book Synopsis Collected Essays by : Haym Soloveitchik

Download or read book Collected Essays written by Haym Soloveitchik and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of his essays on the history of halakhah, Haym Soloveitchik grapples with much-disputed topics in medieval Jewish history, including the roots and culture of Early Ashkenaz and its knowledge of the Babylonian Talmud; martyrdom as perceived and practised by Jews under Islam and Christianity; and the interpretation of Maimonides’ Mishneh torah

Collected Essays

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ISBN 13 : 9780972164498
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Collected Essays by : Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Download or read book Collected Essays written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete edition of Lovecraft's nonfictional writing (exclusive of letters) issued in five thematic volumes. As a majority of the essays were written during Lovecraft's involvement in amateur journalism (1914-1925), a substantial proportion of them deal with at least indirectly with amateur affairs, such as his literary criticism that focuses on amateur writers or is the product of debates within the amateur press.

Complete Essays: 1930-1935

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Total Pages : 666 pages
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Book Synopsis Complete Essays: 1930-1935 by : Aldous Huxley

Download or read book Complete Essays: 1930-1935 written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over his lifetime from 1894 to 1963, Aldous Huxley earned a reputation as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. Best known for his novels, including Brave New World and Point Counter Point, Huxley was nonetheless very much at home in the essay form. Ranging from journalism to critical reviews to lierary, political, cultural, and philosophical reflections, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. They also provide absorbing commentary on contmporary currents and events."--Page 2 of cover.

Essays on Art and Literature

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691036571
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays on Art and Literature by : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Download or read book Essays on Art and Literature written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of an exhaustive series which provides English translations of a representative proportion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's vast body of work, this volume contains such essays as "On Gothic Architecture", "On the Laocoon" and "Shakespeare: a Tribute."

Had I Known

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Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 1455543683
Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book Had I Known written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker). A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit. From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.

Collected Essays

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409040321
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Book Synopsis Collected Essays by : Graham Greene

Download or read book Collected Essays written by Graham Greene and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-10-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating; his subjects brought vividly to life. The resulting collection is as revealing as autobiography and characteristically rich in humour, insight and doubt.

Collected Essays

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ISBN 13 : 9780974878980
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Collected Essays by : Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Download or read book Collected Essays written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete edition of Lovecraft's nonfictional writing (exclusive of letters) issued in five thematic volumes. As a majority of the essays were written during Lovecraft's involvement in amateur journalism (1914-1925), a substantial proportion of them deal with at least indirectly with amateur affairs, such as his literary criticism that focuses on amateur writers or is the product of debates within the amateur press.

Collected Essays

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Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230419299
Total Pages : 102 pages
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Book Synopsis Collected Essays by : Thomas Henry Huxley

Download or read book Collected Essays written by Thomas Henry Huxley and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...Endowment of Research have been proposed. It has been suggested, that Laboratories for all branches of Physical Science, provided with every apparatus needed by the investigator, shall be established by the State: and shall be accessible, under due conditions and regulations, to all properly qualified persons. I see no objection to the principle of such a proposal. If it be legitimate to spend great sums of money on public Libraries and public collections of Painting and Sculpture, in aid of the Man of Letters, or the Artist, or for the mere sake of affording pleasure to the general public. I apprehend that it cannot be illegitimate to do as much for the promotion of scientific investigation. To take the lowest ground, as a mere investment of money, the latter is likely to be much more immediately profitable. To my mind, the difficulty in the way of such schemes is not theoretical, but practical. Given the laboratories, how are the investigators to be maintained? What career is open to those who have been thus encouraged to leave bread-winning pursuits? If they are to be provided for by endowment, we come back to the College Fellowship system, the results of which, for Literature, have not been so brilliant that one would wish to see it extended to Science; unless some much better securities than at present exist can be taken that it will foster real work. You know that among the Bees, it depends on the kind of cell in which the egg is deposited, and the quantity and quality of food which is supplied to the grub, whether it shall turn out a busy little worker or a big idle queen. And, in the human hive, the cells of the endowed larvae are always tending to enlarge, and their food to improve, until we get queens, beautiful to behold, but...

Shakespeare's Montaigne

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177347
Total Pages : 481 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Montaigne by : Michel de Montaigne

Download or read book Shakespeare's Montaigne written by Michel de Montaigne and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne’s best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne’s ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne—though how extensively remains a matter of debate—and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself. Florio’s Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne’s and Shakespeare’s visions of the world, and Platt’s introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world.

Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume III

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195072553
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume III written by Kurt Gödel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone interested in the life and work of Kurt Gödel, or in the history of mathematical logic in this century, is indebted to all of the contributors to this volume for the care with which they have presented Gödel's work. They have succeeded in using their own expertise to elucidate both the nature and significance of what Gödel and, in turn, mathematical logic have accomplished." --Isis (on volume I). The third volume brings togetherGödels unpublished essays and lectures.

Empire, Humanism and Rights

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303082487X
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Book Synopsis Empire, Humanism and Rights by : José María Beneyto

Download or read book Empire, Humanism and Rights written by José María Beneyto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with Vitoria, Charles V and Erasmus. Vitoria’s ideas had a major influence on Charles V and his European and American policy. In turn, Erasmus’ humanism was decisive in the formation of a new international order intellectually discussed by Vitoria and put into practice by the Emperor. Shedding new light on the influence of Francisco de Vitoria and Erasmus on Charles V’s imperial policy, the book’s goal is to explore the impact of Vitoria’s thought with regard to the history of, and contemporary issues in, international law, while also comparing his thinking with that of the well-known humanist Erasmus and assessing their respective influences on the imperial policy of Charles V.

Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004460179
Total Pages : 387 pages
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Religion and Public Reasons

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019958009X
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Book Synopsis Religion and Public Reasons by : John Finnis

Download or read book Religion and Public Reasons written by John Finnis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Public Reasons collects the theological work of John Finnis, spanning his contribution to such foundational issues as the justification for belief in revelation and moral-theological methodology; to the role of religion in public reason and law; and to major controversies within Catholic thought and practice since the 1960s.

The Ghost of Shakespeare

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ISBN 13 : 9781644694718
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Ghost of Shakespeare by : Anna Frajlich

Download or read book The Ghost of Shakespeare written by Anna Frajlich and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich. The Ghost of Shakespeare takes its name from Frajlich's essay on Nobel Prize laureate Wisława Szymborska, but informs her approach as a comparativist more generally as she considers the work of major Polish writers of the twentieth century, including Zbigniew Herbert, Czesław Miłosz, and Bruno Schulz. Frajlich's study of the Roman theme in Russian Symbolism owes its origins to her stay in the Eternal City, the second stop on her exile from Poland in 1969. The book concludes with essays in autobiography that describe her parents' dramatic flight from Poland at the outbreak of the war, her own exile from Poland in 1969, settling in New York City, and building her career as a scholar and leading poet of her generation"--

The Collected Schizophrenias

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141991542
Total Pages : 224 pages
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Book Synopsis The Collected Schizophrenias by : Esmé Weijun Wang

Download or read book The Collected Schizophrenias written by Esmé Weijun Wang and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you're aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it? Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang's story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences. Wang's analytical, intelligent eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with haunting personal narrative. The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core and provides unique insight into a condition long misdiagnosed and much misunderstood.

Collected Essays

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Book Synopsis Collected Essays by : Thomas Henry Huxley

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