The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat
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The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat
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Author : Steven Lukes
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1996
The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat written by Steven Lukes and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Drama categories.
By turns witty and profound, The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a novel in the spirit of Gulliver's Travels or Animal Farm. Telling the story of the travels of a Professor Caritat, who is in search of the perfect world, Steven Lukes us on an irreverent romp through the history of western political philosophy. Doing for that discipline what Sophie's World did for philosophy in general, The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is both a refreshing humorous introduction to the clasing ideologies of our time, and a passionate defence of the much-abused Enlightenment and its core values of reason, freedom and tolerance.
The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat
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Author : Steven Lukes
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2014-05-27
The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat written by Steven Lukes and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Fiction categories.
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional journey through Western political philosophy by one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively through the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria and Libertaria, in his quest to find the best of all possible worlds. Cut loose from the confines of his ivory tower, this wandering professor is made to confront the perplexed state of modern thinking in this dazzling comedy of ideas.
Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat
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Author : Steven Lukes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat written by Steven Lukes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political science categories.
Narrative Plot Structure Analysis In The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat
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Author : Nattharee Songkhunmas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Narrative Plot Structure Analysis In The Curious Enlightenment Of Professor Caritat written by Nattharee Songkhunmas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Moral Relativism
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Author : Steven Lukes
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Moral Relativism written by Steven Lukes and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Philosophy categories.
Do we as humans have no shared standards by which we can understand each other? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that wins out? These questions show up everywhere, from the debate over female circumcision to the UN Declaration of Human Rights. They become ever more pressing in an age of mass immigration, religious extremism and the rise of identity politics. So by what right do we judge particular practices as barbaric? Who are the real barbarians? This provocative book takes an enlightening look at what we believe, why we believe it and whether there really is an irreparable moral discord between 'us' and 'them'.
In Search Of The Good
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Author : Daniel Callahan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-10-12
In Search Of The Good written by Daniel Callahan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Medical categories.
One of the founding fathers of bioethics describes the development of the field and his thinking on some of the crucial issues of our time. Daniel Callahan helped invent the field of bioethics more than forty years ago when he decided to use his training in philosophy to grapple with ethical problems in biology and medicine. Disenchanted with academic philosophy because of its analytical bent and distance from the concerns of real life, Callahan found the ethical issues raised by the rapid medical advances of the 1960s—which included the birth control pill, heart transplants, and new capacities to keep very sick people alive—to be philosophical questions with immediate real-world relevance. In this memoir, Callahan describes his part in the founding of bioethics and traces his thinking on critical issues including embryonic stem cell research, market-driven health care, and medical rationing. He identifies the major challenges facing bioethics today and ruminates on its future. Callahan writes about founding the Hastings Center—the first bioethics research institution—with the author and psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969, and recounts the challenges of running a think tank while keeping up a prolific flow of influential books and articles. Editor of the famous liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal in the 1960s, Callahan describes his now-secular approach to issues of illness and mortality. He questions the idea of endless medical “progress” and interventionist end-of-life care that seems to blur the boundary between living and dying. It is the role of bioethics, he argues, to be a loyal dissenter in the onward march of medical progress. The most important challenge for bioethics now is to help rethink the very goals of medicine.
Individualism
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Author : Steven Lukes
language : en
Publisher: ECPR Press
Release Date : 2006
Individualism written by Steven Lukes and has been published by ECPR Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is widely used by those who criticise and by those who praise Western societies and their culture, by historians and literary scholars in search of the emergence of 'the individual', by anthropologists claiming that there are different, culturally shaped conceptions of the individual or 'person', by philosophers debating what form social science explanations should take and by political theorists defending liberal principles. In this classic text, Steven Lukes discusses what 'individualism' has meant in various national traditions and across different provinces of thought, analysing it into its component unit-ideas and doctrines. He further argues that it now plays a malign ideological role, for it has come to evoke a socially-constructed body of ideas whose illusory unity is deployed to suggest that redistributive policies are neither feasible nor desirable and to deny that there are institutional alternatives to the market.
The Idea Of Justice
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Author : Amartya Sen
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-31
The Idea Of Justice written by Amartya Sen and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Presents an analysis of what justice is, the transcendental theory of justice and its drawbacks, and a persuasive argument for a comparative perspective on justice that can guide us in the choice between alternatives.
The Shapes Of Knowledge From The Renaissance To The Enlightenment
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Author : D.R. Kelley
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Shapes Of Knowledge From The Renaissance To The Enlightenment written by D.R. Kelley and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.
The Red Market
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Author : Scott Carney
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-05-31
The Red Market written by Scott Carney and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.” —Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.