Author: Harry Kalven
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Category : Freedom of speech
Languages : en
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Author: Harry Kalven
Publisher:
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Category : Freedom of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Author: Harry Kalven (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category : Freedom of speech
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: George W. Liebmann
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412836265
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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The Common Law Tradition examines the lives and achievements of five individuals who helped broaden the perspectives of the legal academy - Edward H. Levi, Harry Kalven, Jr., Karl Llewellyn, Philip Kurland, and Kenneth Culp Davis - and assesses the extent to which their immediate agendas were realied. What distinguished these men is that their work was practical and rooted in the law, and hence yielded concrete applications. The groups diversity, the tolerant atmosphere in which they taught and wrote, and the attachment of its individual members to empirical approaches differentiate them from todays legal scholars and make their ideas of continuing importance.

Author: Elias Muhanna
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119145X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.

Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674052498
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The cosmopolitan political tradition defines people not according to nationality, family, or class but as equally worthy citizens of the world. Martha Nussbaum pursues this “noble but flawed” vision, confronting its inherent tensions over material distribution, differential abilities, and the ideological conflicts inherent to pluralistic societies.

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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: James McBride
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 1594486344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war.

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Category : Law reviews
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Author: Leon R. Kass
Publisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641770996
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Most American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look like, and how they might, in the present age, be able to live one. With a once confident culture no longer offering authoritative guidance, the young are now at sea—regarding work, family, religion, and civic identity. The true, the good, and the beautiful have few defenders, and the higher cynicism mocks any innocent love of wisdom or love of country. We are supercompetent regarding efficiency and convenience; we are at a loss regarding what it’s all for. Yet because the old orthodoxies have crumbled, our “interesting time” paradoxically offers genuine opportunities for renewal and growth. The old Socratic question “How to live?” suddenly commands serious attention. Young Americans, if liberated from the prevailing cynicism, will readily embrace weighty questions and undertake serious quests for a flourishing life. All they (and we) need is encouragement. This book provides that necessary encouragement by illuminating crucial—and still available—aspects of a worthy life, and by defending them against their enemies. With chapters on love, family, and friendship; human excellence and human dignity; teaching, learning, and truth; and the great human aspirations of Western civilization, it offers help to both secular and religious readers, to people who are looking on their own for meaning and to people who are looking to deepen what they have been taught or to square it with the spirit of our times.