University Center for Human Values Series – serie
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24 produkter
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
Av Susan Wolf
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
323 kr
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Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably fit into this scheme. Often we act neither …
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
Häftad, 2019
232 kr
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Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can’t see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power …
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
Inbunden, 2015
263 kr
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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian …
Matter of Interpretation
Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition
Av Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 2018
170 kr
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We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim--"distinguishing one prior case on …
Why Trust Science?
Av Naomi Oreskes, Stephen Macedo
Inbunden, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
220 kr
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Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own …
Multiculturalism
Expanded Paperback Edition
Av Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1994
323 kr
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A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which …
Truth v. Justice
The Morality of Truth Commissions
Av Robert I. Rotberg, Dennis F. Thompson
Häftad, 2000
528 kr
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The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of …
Freedom of Association
Av Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 1998
1042 kr
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Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and international charities, and service organizations of seemingly …
Work and Welfare
Av Robert M. Solow, Amy Gutmann
Inbunden, 1998
1391 kr
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President …
Goodness and Advice
Av Judith Jarvis Thomson, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 2003
383 kr
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How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential …
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
Av Michael Ignatieff, Amy Gutmann
Häftad, 2003
348 kr
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Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this …
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
Häftad, 2005
332 kr
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The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, …
Limits of Constitutional Democracy
Av Jeffrey K. Tulis, Stephen Macedo
Häftad, 2010
384 kr
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Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional democracy, and reexamines fundamental questions: What is …
Striking First
Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
Av Michael W. Doyle, Stephen Macedo
Häftad, 2011
415 kr
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Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by terrorists and rogue states? Tackling one of the most controversial …
Primates and Philosophers
How Morality Evolved
Av Frans de Waal, Stephen Macedo m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
240 kr
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Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: …
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
Häftad, 2017
220 kr
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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian …
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
Inbunden, 2017
770 kr
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Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are--private governments with sweeping authoritarian …
Different Kind of Animal
How Culture Transformed Our Species
Av Robert Boyd
Inbunden, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
246 kr
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How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than any …
Different Kind of Animal
How Culture Transformed Our Species
Av Robert Boyd
Häftad, 2019
203 kr
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How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a speciesHuman beings have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. This astonishing transformation is usually explained in terms of cognitive ability—people are just smarter than …
President Who Would Not Be King
Executive Power under the Constitution
Inbunden, 2020
399 kr
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Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential powerOne of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. …
Why Trust Science?
Av Naomi Oreskes, Stephen Macedo
Häftad, 2021
169 kr
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Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? …
President Who Would Not Be King
Executive Power under the Constitution
Häftad, 2022
242 kr
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Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent—and limits—of presidential powerOne of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king. …
Active and Passive Citizens
A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy
Av Richard Tuck, Stephen Macedo
Inbunden, 2024
280 kr
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A powerful case for why majority rule—not representation—is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little part in current theories of democracy, which instead stress the importance of representation by …
Active and Passive Citizens
A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy
Av Richard Tuck, Stephen Macedo
Häftad, 2026
220 kr
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A powerful case for why majority rule—not representation—is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly little part in current theories of democracy, which instead stress the importance of representation by …
