Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Newcastle Council Reports
Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Proceedings of the Town Council of the Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City councils
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Literary and Philosophical Society, of Newcastle-upon Tyne
Author: Literary and Philosophical Society (NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Power, Pleasure, and Profit
Author: David WoottonPublisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674976673
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success. Is our world better for the rise of instrumental reasoning? To answer that question, Wootton writes, we must first recognize that we live in its grip.
Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: Segment II, 1832-1850
Author: Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the Borough of Gateshead
Author: A Catalogue of the Manuscripts, Books, Roman and Other Antiquities Belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts, Books, Roman and Other Antiquities
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Analytical Index to the Reports of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Municipal Corporations (England and Wales)
Author: Great Britain. Commission for Inquiring into the State of the Several Municipal Corporations in England and WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Chemistry and Industry Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry, Technical
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description