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First published in 1972. This is Volume four of a collection of ten source books on Haiti and looks at the present state of its agriculture, economics, laws, religion and details of its inhabitants as in 1842. Franklin was a frequent visitor to the West Indies and sook to understand the Haitian experience of independence in order to assess the probable impact of emancipation in the Anglophone Caribbean.

First published in 1972. This is Volume four of a collection of ten source books on Haiti and looks at the present state of its agriculture, economics, laws, religion and details of its inhabitants as in 1842. Franklin was a frequent visitor to the West Indies and sook to understand the Haitian experience of independence in order to assess the probable impact of emancipation in the Anglophone Caribbean.

First published in 1972. This is Volume four of a collection of ten source books on Haiti and looks at the present state of its agriculture, economics, laws, religion and details of its inhabitants as in 1842. Franklin was a frequent visitor to the West Indies and sook to understand the Haitian experience of independence in order to assess the probable impact of emancipation in the Anglophone Caribbean.

First published in 1972. This is Volume four of a collection of ten source books on Haiti and looks at the present state of its agriculture, economics, laws, religion and details of its inhabitants as in 1842. Franklin was a frequent visitor to the West Indies and sook to understand the Haitian experience of independence in order to assess the probable impact of emancipation in the Anglophone Caribbean.

This open access book covers four decades of work by the leading Australian philosopher, mathematician and historian of ideas, James Franklin.These interlinking essays are connected by a core theme: the necessary structures in reality that allow certain knowledge of absolute truths. Franklin’s Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics shows how mathematical truths are directly about physical reality, and at the same time certainly and provably true. Ranging from mathematics to evidence evaluation to ethics, his philosophy of probability sees the relation of evidence to hypothesis, such as in science and law, as purely logical, hence necessary.Across ethics and the philosophy of religion, the theme of necessity is repeated: basic ethical truths (such as the worth of persons and the wrongness of murder) are shown to have the same certainty as mathematics. Focus on the history of ideas connects the philosophical work in the present with the medieval scholastic tradition, which defended similar necessities but is now neglected.Here is an up-to-date introduction to Franklin’s overall perspective. Recalling Western philosophy to its roots, it reveals the way absolute necessities are discoverable across the abstract fields of mathematics, logical evidence and ethics. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attainable? In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin examines how judges, witch inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence; how scientists weighed reasons for and against scientific theories; and how merchants counted shipwrecks to determine insurance rates. The Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and explores the coming to consciousness of the human understanding of risk.

To scientists, the tsunami of relativism, scepticism, and postmodernism that washed through the humanities in the twentieth century was all water off a duck’s back. Science remained committed to objectivity and continued to deliver remarkable discoveries and improvements in technology.In What Science Knows, the Australian philosopher and mathematician James Franklin explains in captivating and straightforward prose how science works its magic. He begins with an account of the nature of evidence, where science imitates but extends commonsense and legal reasoning in basing conclusions solidly on inductive reasoning from facts.After a brief survey of the furniture of the world as science sees it—including causes, laws, dispositions and force fields as well as material things—Franklin describes colorful examples of discoveries in the natural, mathematical, and social sciences and the reasons for believing them. He examines the limits of science, giving special attention both to mysteries that may be solved by science, such as the origin of life, and those that may in principle be beyond the reach of science, such as the meaning of ethics.What Science Knows will appeal to anyone who wants a sound, readable, and well-paced introduction to the intellectual edifice that is science. On the other hand it will not please the enemies of science, whose willful misunderstandings of scientific method and the relation of evidence to conclusions Franklin mercilessly exposes.

This thought-provoking book for college students and those who minister with them deals with issues of faith, identity, sex, success, failure, and more, through the concept of belovedness.Every college student’s story is different, but they all have the same questions in common. Who am I? How do I make good choices? What does it mean to be successful? How do I navigate changing relationships with my family, my peers, my significant other? And how do I do all of this faithfully? This book approaches these topics through a fundamental inquiry: “What if I really, truly believed that I was beloved beyond all measure, and how would that influence what I do?”Along with the editors, eight campus ministers from across several denominations contributed to this volume to help students navigate questions of life and faith in the world of high-pressure college campuses.Telling it like it is with wit and wisdom drawn from scripture, tradition, and life experience, this book offers profound and practical reminders of what it is to be beloved.

The death of a person is a tragedy while the explosion of a lifeless galaxy is a mere firework. The moral difference is grounded in the nature of humans: humans have intrinsic worth, a worth that makes their fate really matter. This is the worth that the Australian philosopher James Franklin proposes as the foundation of ethics. In The Worth of Persons he explains that ethics in the usual sense of right and wrong actions, rights and virtues, and how to live a good life, is founded on something more basic that is not itself about actions, namely the worth of persons. Human moral worth arises from certain properties that distinguish humans from the rest of creation (though some animals share a lesser degree of those properties): rationality, consciousness, the ability to act for reasons, emotional structure and love, individuality. This complex package makes humans the "piece of work" of which Hamlet says, “How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty."In clear prose and deeply informed philosophical argument, The Worth of Persons establishes a foundation for ethics in the equal worth of persons, which makes ethics absolutely objective and immune to relativist attacks because it is based on the metaphysical truth about humans.The Worth of Persons will appeal to all those who feel that endless debate about ethical dilemmas, rules, and principles fails to connect with what is really important ethically, that is, what makes humans matter.

ACHS Journal 2019 Volume 40

The Men Who Led Theodore Roosevelt He was born gasping for breath and died in his sleep as the most consequential president between Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. In the sixty years between, Theodore Roosevelt remade himself, his office, and his country, by force of will, by force of argument, and when necessary, by force. This is the full biography of that life: the sickly boy who built his body in a Midtown gymnasium; the Harvard naturalist who found himself in the Dakota Badlands; the Civil Service reformer and midnight-street policeman; the soldier who charged a fortified hill on horseback; the president who broke the trusts, saved the forests, mediated a world war, and expanded the American executive into the instrument of governance the twentieth century required. And the private man behind every public act: the son of a beloved father, the widower at twenty-five, the devoted husband, the father of six, the writer of thirty-five books who dictated his final editorial the day before his heart gave out. It is also the biography of his failures. The Brownsville affair. The racial accommodations that qualified the Square Deal's own promise of equal treatment. The friendship with Taft that broke into a bitterness that split a party and handed a presidency to a Democrat. The Amazon expedition that took fifty-seven pounds and the full use of his leg and never gave them back. The son buried in French soil under a wing of his own aircraft, at twenty years old, on Bastille Day. Theodore Roosevelt cannot be simplified. He was the great conservationist who killed eleven thousand African specimens. The trust-buster who was saved by J. P. Morgan. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate who announced that America would police the Western Hemisphere. The man who charged every hill he ever faced except the one that mattered most. To engage honestly with this life is to practise the form of thinking that serious engagement with any serious subject requires: holding achievement and failure in the same frame, admiring without idolising, learning from both the triumph and the cost. What he built was the foundational principle of modern American governance, that the democratic republic has both the authority and the obligation to protect the many against the few. What he demonstrated was that the distance between what is and what ought to be is traversable, by a person with sufficient will, even against the most powerful opposition the Gilded Age could assemble. The effort was extraordinary. The effort, in the end, was enough.

THE MEN WHO LED: ABRAHAM LINCOLN He arrived in New Salem in the spring of 1831 on a flatboat, twenty-two years old, without money or connections or any established reputation. He had taught himself to read by firelight, memorized Shakespeare in a log cabin, and decided, with the specific determination of a person who has nothing and intends to have more, that the world was worth understanding seriously. What he made of that determination is the subject of this book. Abraham Lincoln is the complete biography of the most consequential American president, a life examined from the Kentucky cabin through the Illinois prairie, through the law offices and the state legislature and the failed Senate campaigns, through the debates with Douglas and the Cooper Union address and the nomination and the presidency and the war. It is the story of a man who held the right moral convictions when holding them was costly, who moved toward the right outcomes at the pace the political situation permitted rather than the pace that comfort demanded, and who paid, in the face visible in the photographs of 1865, everything that the republic asked of him. This biography does not offer the marble saint of the mythology. It offers something harder and more useful: the actual person, funny, melancholic, brilliant, sometimes wrong, always working, whose preparation across fifty-six years produced, at the exact moment the republic needed it most, the leadership that saved the Union, abolished slavery, and articulated the purpose of democratic self-governance with a precision and an honesty that the republic has been trying to live up to ever since. It examines the Emancipation Proclamation not as a single act of moral courage but as the culmination of a twenty-eight-year legal and political project. It examines the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural as the products of a literary intelligence that had been developing since the New Salem debating society. It examines the military leadership, the cabinet management, the political coalition-building, the personal grief of Willie's death and the accumulated cost of four years of war. And it examines, with the honesty the record requires, both the genuine greatness of what Lincoln accomplished and the genuine limitations of a man who was formed by his time and who moved beyond it further than anyone could reasonably have expected. Why does Lincoln still matter? Not because his specific decisions are templates for ours. Because his life is the most complete demonstration in American political history of what serious democratic leadership looks like, what it requires, what it costs, and what it can accomplish when the preparation is adequate and the person is willing to pay what the moment costs. The work he began is not finished. The articulation he left us, in the documents, available to every generation willing to read them with the seriousness they require, is the most honest account of what the republic is supposed to be doing and why it matters.He kept working until he could not work anymore. The least we can do is read him carefully.