Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Mirage of Social Justice
Author: Friedrich August HayekPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780710084033
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This is a three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Volume 1 deals with the basic conceptions necessary for a critical analysis of prevailing theories of justice and of the conditions which a constitution securing personal liberty would have to satisfy. In volume 2, the author examines the theories of utilitariansim and legal positivism and considers the concept of 'social justice.' He shows this ideal to be devoid of meaning and therefore a most harmful and dangerous cause of the mis-direction of well-meant efforts: he demonstrates that it is a remnant of the tribal ethics of a closed society and whooly incompatible with the individual freedom whih the Open Society promises. In the final volume, Hayek analyses and discards modern sociobiological theories of morality and social conduct, demonstrating that man's behaviour pattern has been determined more by custom than by the exercise of reason, and that mind and culture therefore developed concurrently and not successively. He shows how the democratic ideal is in danger of miscarrying due to the erroneous assumptions that there can be moral standards without moral discipline, that the element of tradition can be ignored in proposals for restructuring society, and the way in which the disctinct ideals of egalitarianism and democracy are increasingly confused.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author: The J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892360186
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 6/7 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, paintings, sculpture, and works of art. This volume includes an editorial statement by the journal’s editors: Burton B. Fredericksen, curator of Paintings, Jiří Frel, curator of Antiquities, and Gillian Wilson, curator of Decorative Arts. Conservation problems are discussed along with articles written by K. Christiansen, B. B. Fredericksen, S. Holo, G. Wilson, B. L. Shifman, M. Shapiro, J. Frel, D. M. Brinkerhoff, C. C. Vermeule, G. Koch, S. Downey, l. Kilian-Dirlmeier, C. Cardon, F. Brommer, M. A. Del Chiaro, P. Visonà, J. Cody, R. Mellor, D. L. Thompson, E. Langlotz, P. Zazoff, S. Knudsen Morgan, M. Jentoft-Nilsen, and A. Manzoni.
The Jews and Modern Capitalism
Author: Werner SombartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
American Railroad Law
Author: Simeon Eben BaldwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad law
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Hermeneutics and Science
Author: International Society for Hermeneutics and SciencePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792357988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Proceedings of the First Conference of the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science
A Vast Machine
Author: Paul N. EdwardsPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262290715
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future. Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine Paul Edwards has news for these skeptics: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals or observations—even from satellites, which can “see” the whole planet with a single instrument—becomes global in time and space without passing through a series of data models. Everything we know about the world's climate we know through models. Edwards offers an engaging and innovative history of how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere—to measure it, trace its past, and model its future.
Plato's Introduction of Forms
Author: R. M. DancyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456237
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and between those who see a development in the thought of the dialogues and those who do not. In this important book Russell Dancy focuses on the arguments and defends a developmental picture. He explains the Theory of Forms of the Phaedo and Symposium as an outgrowth of the quest for definitions canvassed in the Socratic dialogues, by constructing a Theory of Definition for the Socratic dialogues based on the refutations of definitions in those dialogues, and showing how that theory is mirrored in the Theory of Forms. His discussion, notable for both its clarity and its meticulous scholarship, ranges in detail over a number of Plato's early and middle dialogues, and will be of interest to readers in Plato studies and in ancient philosophy more generally.
Linguistic Aspects of Verbal Humor in Stand-up Comedy
Author: Jeannine SchwarzPublisher:
ISBN: 9783868442502
Category : Comedy
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Revolutionary War Records
Author: Gaius Marcus BrumbaughPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806300603
Category : Bounties, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Given in memory of Charles Hudson Edge, Laura James Edge, by Eugene Edge III.