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Global Modernity : And Other Essays.
This group of essays follows a similar eclectic pattern to that found in Tom Rubens' previous essay-collections published by Imprint Academic. The author's aim is, as before, to appeal widely but also succinctly: in a way that will stimulate readers to develop their own thoughts on, and co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Exeter :
Imprint Academic (an imprint of Andrews UK Ltd.),
2013.
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| Colección: | Societas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Body matter; ONE; Global Modernity; "From Each According to His Ability"; The 'Working Class'; Radicalism in England Since 1945; The Police in England; TWO; Physicalism & Epiphenomenalism: Differences & Similarities; Aspects of Atheistic Determinism; Purposeless Causality; The Austerity of Atheistic Naturalism; Ray Tallis & the "Extra-Natural"; Moral Projects in a Chaotic Cosmos; Power of Life & Death; Global Federation; Ultimate Culture; THREE; Democracy & European Artistic Achievement; The Limits of Pure Democracy.
- Democracy & Economic-Power ElitesPro-Democracy Movements in the Muslim World; Another Concept of Liberal Democracy; Concepts of a Liberal State; FOUR; Spinoza Today; Centre-Stage; Pragmatism & Realism: Some Observations; Questions for Kantians; Truth, Falsity & Logic; Hegel: A Few Appreciative Comments; Schopenhauer's "Metaphysics of Sexual Love"; Economic Thought & the Problem of 'Will'; Nietzsche & Hardy; Sartre's Continuing Importance: Some Observations; In Praise of Democritus; European Thinkers & the American 'Western'; Mechanism & Morality; Three Major Modern Problems; Past & Present.