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“robert boysen”

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  • Sources of Power

    by Robert Boysen ...
    A general theory of human nature, charting basic drives to action choices. Answers why we do what we do. Defines the role of culture, denies rational thinking role, and the definition of a rational decision to act. ... Read more

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    by Mark Tully ...
    Since the Indian economy was liberated from bureaucratic, socialist controls in 1991, it has developed rapidly. A country once renowned for the backwardness of its industries, its commerce and its financial market is now viewed as potentially one of the major world economies of the twenty-first century.But there are many questions which need to be asked about the sustainability of this rapid ... Read more

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  • Robot Ethics 2.0

    From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, Ryan Jenkins ...
    The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the ... Read more

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  • Roald Dahl and Philosophy

    A Little Nonsense Now and Then

    by Adam Barkman, Matthew Bokma, Cam Cobb, Taine Duncan, Tanya Jeffcoat, Chad Kleist, Greg Littman, Marc Napolitano, Miranda Nell, Ron Novy, Benjamin Rider, Timothy M. Dale, John V. Karavitis, Janelle Potzsch, Elizabeth Butterfield, Joseph J. Foy ...
    For generations the elements of humor, poignancy, fantasy, and unfettered morality found within acclaimed children’s author Roald Dahl’s most famous tales have captivated both children and adults. Classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda, and The BFG may initially appear to be yarns spun for the amusement of the adolescent mind, however ... Read more

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  • The Person and the Common Good

    by Jacques Maritain ...
    Translated by John J. Fitzgerald ...
    The Person and the Common Good, originally published in 1947, presents Jacques Maritain's clearest and most sustained treatment of the person. He asks whether the person is simply the self and nothing more. After more than half a century, Maritain's question still has great validity, given the current inordinate preoccupation with individualism.Presenting with moving insight the relations between ... Read more

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  • Correspondence 1930-1940

    by Walter Benjamin, Gretel Adorno ...
    ‘We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.’ So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life.The correspondence between Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin, published here in its complete form for the first time, is the document of a ... Read more

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  • The Vocabulary of a Modern European State

    by Michael Oakeshott ...
    Series Book 4 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    The Vocabulary of a Modern European State is the companion volume to The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence and completes the enterprise of gathering together Oakeshott's previously scattered essays and reviews. As with all the other volumes in the series it contains an entirely new editorial introduction explaining how the writings it contains find their place in his work as a whole. It ... Read more

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  • The Classic Works of Isocrates: Helen of Troy and 6 Other Works (Illustrated Edition)

    by Isocrates ...
    Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential in its time and attracted students from across the Greek world. Of his hundred pupils the most ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Law as Process

    Creativity, Novelty, Change

    by James MacLean ...
    Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from 'process philosophy' in order to rethink the nature of legal decision making. ... Read more

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  • Putting Away Childish Things: A New Synthesis

    by Jon Mercurio ...
    In two sections we trace the historical path taken by man in his attempt to understand 'what in the world is this all about'. The philosopher Hegal suggested that all advances require three steps: a thesis, an antithesis and a synthesis. Religion and science are major milestones in mankind's march toward maturity - a thesis and an antithesis that require a synthesis. Unlike Gould, who suggests ... Read more

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  • Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World

    by Vittorio Hösle, Francis R. Hittinger IV ...
    Among the classics of the history of philosophy, the Scienza nuova (New Science) by Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) was largely neglected and generally misunderstood during the author's lifetime. From the nineteenth century onwards Vico’s views found a wider audience, and today his influence is widespread in the humanities and social sciences. The New Science is often taught in courses at colleges ... Read more

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  • Thought Thinking

    The Philosophy of Giovanni Gentile

    by Bruce Haddock ...
    The Italian author Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) occupied a radical position among philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century. He tried in earnest to revolutionize idealist theory, developing a doctrine that retained the idealist conception of the thinking subject as the centre and source of any intelligible reality, while eschewing many of the unwarranted abstractions that had ... Read more

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