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Original selfishness : original sin and evil in the light of evolution.
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ISBN: 0754653153 Year: 2006 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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The Tao is silent
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ISBN: 0060674695 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Harper and Row


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The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air : Three Godly Discourses
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ISBN: 1400880475 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant, brilliant, and written in stunningly lucid prose, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) is one of Kierkegaard's most important books. Presented here in a fresh new translation with an informative introduction, this profound yet accessible work serves as an ideal entrée to an essential modern thinker.The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air reveals a less familiar but deeply appealing side of the father of existentialism-unshorn of his complexity and subtlety, yet supremely approachable. As Kierkegaard later wrote of the book, "Without fighting with anybody and without speaking about myself, I said much of what needs to be said, but movingly, mildly, upliftingly."This masterful edition introduces one of Kierkegaard's most engaging and inspiring works to a new generation of readers.


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Mind and Art
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ISBN: 0691071845 0691019991 0691606951 1400868718 9781400868711 9780691606958 9780691071848 0691635633 9780691019994 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Guy Sircello's analysis of the varieties of expression and his use of them to justify a particular view of the human mind clarify a number of controversial topics in contemporary philosophy, among them the notion of "artistic acts," language as expression, the expression of ideas, expressions as "natural signs," and the nature of the causal relationship between an expression and what is expressed.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Art --- Philosophy. --- Psychology. --- Philosophie --- Psychologie --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Absurdity. --- Adjective. --- Aesthetics. --- Allegory. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Anger. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Art. --- BDSM. --- Book. --- Boredom. --- Category mistake. --- Causality. --- Circumlocution. --- Classicism. --- Cognate. --- Connotation. --- Consciousness. --- Constant conjunction. --- Copying. --- Criticism. --- Defamation. --- Disgust. --- Distrust. --- El Greco. --- Emotionalism. --- Equanimity. --- Explanation. --- Externalization. --- Falsity. --- Feeling. --- Fine art. --- Greatness. --- Hallucination. --- Hostility. --- Illocutionary act. --- Imagination. --- Indication (medicine). --- Inferiority complex. --- Informality. --- Inseparability. --- Irony. --- Jargon. --- Laziness. --- Literature. --- Lytton Strachey. --- Magnanimity. --- Metaphor. --- Modern philosophy. --- Modesty. --- Moral character. --- Music criticism. --- Narcissism. --- Non-fiction. --- Nonsense. --- Nonverbal communication. --- Obscurantism. --- Originality. --- Paradox. --- Personal identity. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of language. --- Phrase (music). --- Pity. --- Poetry. --- Politeness. --- Praxiteles. --- Prose. --- Respect. --- Result. --- Romanticism. --- Sadness. --- Sanity. --- Sarcasm. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Selfishness. --- Sentimentality. --- Sophistication. --- Spirituality. --- Suggestion. --- Sympathy. --- Symptom. --- The Concept of Mind. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory of art. --- Theory of mind. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Understanding. --- Uniqueness. --- Vagueness. --- Verb. --- Work of art. --- Writing.


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Clear and simple as the truth : writing classic prose
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ISBN: 0691654743 0691602999 Year: 1994 Publisher: Princeton, [New Jersey] : Princeton University Press,

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Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing.The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Report writing. --- English language --- Style. --- Rhetoric. --- Abstraction. --- Accessibility. --- Active voice. --- Allegory. --- Antithesis. --- Approximation. --- Areopagitica. --- Classical language. --- Colloquialism. --- Concept. --- Conflation. --- Creative nonfiction. --- Deed. --- Distraction. --- Divine providence. --- Elizabeth Eisenstein. --- Empiricism. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Etiquette. --- Family resemblance. --- Figure of speech. --- Fine art. --- Formality. --- Greatness. --- Handbook. --- Heuristic. --- Hilary Putnam. --- Humility. --- Ideogram. --- Image schema. --- Inception. --- Informality. --- Ingenuity. --- Introspection. --- Invention. --- Irony. --- James Thurber. --- Julian Barnes. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Lady Catherine de Bourgh. --- Lettres provinciales. --- Level of detail. --- Linguistic competence. --- Mark Twain. --- Metonymy. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- New Thought. --- Obfuscation. --- On Truth. --- Optimism. --- Oracle. --- Parody. --- Peor. --- Persuasive writing. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Phrase. --- Piety. --- Plain English. --- Platitude. --- Prima facie. --- Printing. --- Prose. --- Provenance. --- Reasonable person. --- Religion. --- Result. --- Righteousness. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Self-interest. --- Selfishness. --- Sentimentality. --- Silliness. --- Simile. --- Sincerity. --- Sir Thomas Elyot. --- Skepticism. --- Sophistication. --- Special pleading. --- Spoken language. --- Standard English. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Elements of Style. --- The Other Hand. --- Theorem. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Understatement. --- Verbosity. --- White's. --- Writing style. --- Writing.


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Aporophobia : Why We Reject the Poor Instead of Helping Them
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ISBN: 9780691239422 0691239428 9780691205526 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press

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"In a world built on the political, economic and social contract, the poor seem to break the rules of give and take. As a result, there is a growing tendency to exclude them. The problem is not one of xenophobia, since the enthusiastic reception of foreign tourists contrasts with the rejection of refugees and immigrants. We're talking about aporophobia, rejection of the poor. The poor person is a nuisance, even within one's own family. Aporophobia is a daily attack on the dignity and well-being of people and democracy. It also has a universal reach: all human beings are aporophobes, and this has its cerebral and social roots that can and should be modified if we are to take seriously the key ethical issues of a democratic society that aims to be fair. In this book Adela Cortina exposes one of the most deep-rooted and overlooked moral conflicts of our time, not only to give it a name but also to force us to recognise it and to provide us with the tools to face a reality very much our own"--

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Discrimination. --- Poor --- Poverty --- PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Bias --- Interpersonal relations --- Minorities --- Toleration --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Economic conditions --- E-books --- Social stratification --- Social problems --- Social policy --- Activation. --- Aggression. --- Altruism. --- Amartya Sen. --- Antisemitism. --- Awareness. --- Bipolar disorder. --- Bribery. --- Calculation. --- Carbon dioxide. --- Charles Darwin. --- Citizenship. --- Climate change. --- Conscience. --- Conservatism. --- Contempt. --- Costa Rica. --- Criticism. --- Diagnosis. --- Dignity. --- Disposition. --- Economy. --- Electric car. --- Electricity generation. --- Electricity. --- Emotion. --- Ethics. --- Ethnic group. --- Extreme poverty. --- Feeling. --- Fossil fuel. --- Freedom of speech. --- Fuel. --- Glaucon. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Hate crime. --- Hate speech. --- Hatred. --- Heat pump. --- Homo economicus. --- Homophobia. --- Hospitality. --- Hostility. --- Humiliation. --- Ideology. --- Incitement. --- Ingroups and outgroups. --- Institution. --- Islamophobia. --- Kantianism. --- Laser scanning. --- Legislation. --- Margaret Fuller. --- Martha Nussbaum. --- Misogyny. --- Morality. --- Motivation. --- Neuroscientist. --- Nitrogen. --- Norm (social). --- Nutrient. --- Obligation. --- Obstacle. --- Oxytocin. --- Perpetual peace. --- Person. --- Philosophy. --- Phosphorus. --- Politics. --- Poor person. --- Poverty. --- Prejudice. --- Race (human categorization). --- Racism. --- Radical evil. --- Rainforest. --- Reason. --- Refrigerator. --- Refugee. --- Reinforcement. --- Remorse. --- Reputation. --- Selfishness. --- Shame. --- Social exclusion. --- Social rejection. --- Society. --- Soil. --- Spoken language. --- Stoicism. --- Sympathy. --- Teleology. --- The Other Hand. --- Thought. --- Transhumanism. --- Value (ethics). --- Wealth. --- Western Europe. --- William Safire. --- Xenophobia. --- Moral and ethical aspects


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Humanity
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ISBN: 1400890349 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerful documentary filmmaker. His work and art call attention to attacks on democracy and free speech, abuses of human rights, and human displacement--often on an epic, international scale.This collection of "ations demonstrates the range of Ai Weiwei's thinking on humanity and mass migration, issues that have occupied him for decades. Selected from articles, interviews, and conversations, Ai Weiwei's words speak to the profound urgency of the global refugee crisis, the resilience and vulnerability of the human condition, and the role of art in providing a voice for the voiceless.Select "ations from the book:"This problem has such a long history, a human history. We are all refugees somehow, somewhere, and at some moment."Allowing borders to determine your thinking is incompatible with the modern era." "Art is about aesthetics, about morals, about our beliefs in humanity. Without that there is simply no art." "I don't care what all people think. My work belongs to the people who have no voice."

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Art --- Refugies --- Artistes dissidents --- Refugees --- Humanity. --- Dissenters, Artistic --- Aspect politique. --- Condistions sociales. --- Ai, Weiwei --- Ai, Weiwei. --- China. --- 21er Haus. --- Ai Qing. --- Ai Weiwei. --- Alcatraz Island. --- Amnesty International. --- Andy Warhol. --- Anti-Rightist Movement. --- Begging. --- Beijing Film Academy. --- Beijing. --- Berlin University of the Arts. --- Caochangdi. --- Censorship. --- Chengdu. --- China Institute. --- Chinese culture. --- Civil society. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Democracy. --- Deng Xiaoping. --- Dictatorship. --- Distrust. --- Documenta. --- Environmental issue. --- Everyday life. --- Famine. --- Far-right politics. --- Generosity. --- Global Leadership. --- Global issue. --- Globalization. --- Golden Shield Project. --- Great Firewall. --- Great power. --- Hairstyle. --- Harald Szeemann. --- Hatred. --- Haus der Kunst. --- Heilongjiang. --- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. --- Historic site. --- Hu Yaobang. --- Humanitarian crisis. --- Ideology. --- Illegal construction. --- International community. --- Jean-Michel Basquiat. --- Jingdezhen. --- Keith Haring. --- Lawrence Weiner. --- League of Left-Wing Writers. --- Lesbos. --- Liberalization. --- Mainland China. --- Mao Zedong. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Melting. --- National Gallery in Prague. --- National Policy. --- Nationality. --- Non-governmental organization. --- Northeast China. --- Parsons School of Design. --- People in Need (Czech Republic). --- Police raid. --- Political structure. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Power Station of Art. --- Power structure. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prisoner of conscience. --- Public art. --- Public humiliation. --- Publishing. --- Refugee camp. --- Refugee. --- Sadness. --- Safe-space. --- Secret police. --- Selfishness. --- Shihezi. --- Sichuan. --- Sun Yat-sen. --- Sunflower Seeds. --- Tate Modern. --- Tax. --- Telluride Film Festival. --- The Politician (book). --- Third World. --- Tiananmen Square. --- Twitter. --- Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. --- Uncertainty. --- Venice Biennale. --- Venice Film Festival. --- Warlord Era. --- World War II. --- Xinhai Revolution. --- YouTube.

Hobbesian moral and political theory
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ISBN: 0691077185 069102765X 9780691077185 9780691027654 Year: 1986 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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In recent years serious attempts have been made to systematize and develop the moral and political themes of great philosophers of the past. Kant, Locke, Marx, and the classical utilitarians all have their current defenders and arc taken seriously as expositors of sound moral and political views. It is the aim of this book to introduce Hobbes into this select group by presenting a plausible moral and political theory inspired by Leviathan. Using the techniques of analytic philosophy and elementary game theory, the author develops a Hobbesian argument that justifies the liberal State and reconciles the rights and interests of rational individuals with their obligations.Hobbes's case against anarchy, based on his notorious claim that life outside the political State would be a "war of all against all," is analyzed in detail, while his endorsement of the absolutist State is traced to certain false hypotheses about political sociology. With these eliminated, Hobbes's principles support a liberal redistributive (or "satisfactory") State and a limited right of revolution. Turning to normative issues, the book explains Hobbes's account of morality based on enlightened self-interest and shows how the Hobbesian version of social contract theory justifies the political obligations of citizens of satisfactory States.

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Hobbes, Thomas --- Contributions in political science --- Ethics --- -Hobbes, Thomas --- -Contributions in political science --- Hobbes, Thomas, --- PHILOSOPHY / Political --- Philosophie politique. --- Science politique. --- Teoria politica. --- Filosofia moderna. --- Hobbes, thomas. --- Ethiek. --- Politieke filosofie. --- Pensee politique et sociale. --- Political science. --- Leviathan (Hobbes, Thomas) --- Brennan, Geoffry. --- Buchanan, James. --- Egoism. --- Frankena, William. --- Hoffman, Martin. --- Marx, Karl. --- Plato. --- absolutism. --- altruism. --- argument against anarchy. --- authorization. --- beliefs, higher-order. --- civil war. --- common knowledge. --- commonwealth. --- consequentialism. --- contracts. --- covenants. --- defense groups. --- dominators. --- empirical assumptions. --- enforcement of agreements. --- facts and values. --- fairness. --- freedom of expression. --- future generations. --- geometric method. --- good and evil. --- gratitude. --- group selection. --- guaranteed economic minimum. --- human nature. --- ideals. --- incentives to work. --- independents. --- internal attitude. --- kin selection. --- libertarianism. --- might makes right. --- mutual expectations. --- oppressed minorities. --- peace. --- practical rationality. --- public goods. --- redistribution. --- reputation. --- right reason. --- scarcity of resources. --- selfishness. --- speech acts. --- tacit will. --- unanimity. --- Hobbes's Leviathan (Hobbes, Thomas) --- Hobbes, Thomas, - 1588-1679 - Contributions in political science --- Hobbes, Thomas, - 1588-1679 - Ethics --- Hobbes, Thomas, - 1588-1679 --- Contribution à la science politique --- Politique --- Politique, Science --- Politologie --- Sciences politiques --- Statologie --- Aspect politique --- Bible et politique --- Épistémologie de la science politique --- État --- Femmes et politique --- Philosophie politique --- Politique et culture --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politologues --- Administration publique --- Allégeance --- Communication en politique --- Contrat social --- Crises politiques --- Décision politique --- Décolonialité --- Délégation des pouvoirs (science politique) --- Développement politique --- Dimension des communes --- Dimension des États --- Alternance politique --- Droite (science politique) --- Espace politique --- Espace public (science politique) --- Factions politiques --- Gauche (science politique) --- Géographie politique --- Géopolitique --- Gérontocratie --- Gouvernement (science politique) --- Hégémonie --- Anthropologie politique --- Idées politiques --- Institutions politiques --- Intérêt général --- Justice --- Obligation politique --- Opinion publique --- Opposition (science politique) --- Partis politiques --- Populisme --- Postcolonialisme --- Assimilation politique --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Pratiques politiques --- Psychologie politique --- Réaction (science politique) --- Régimes politiques --- Relations gouvernement central-collectivités locales --- Relations internationales --- Religion et politique --- Représentation politique --- Résistance politique --- Autonomie --- Restaurations (politique) --- Science politique --- Séparation des pouvoirs --- Société civile --- Sociologie politique --- Souveraineté --- Symbolisme en politique --- Système électoral --- Techniques de décision en politique --- Biopolitique --- Violence politique --- Volonté générale --- Centre (science politique) --- Citoyenneté --- Clivages (science politique) --- Sciences sociales --- Contribution à la philosophie politique --- Philosophie de la politique --- Philosophie et politique --- Politique et philosophie --- Droit --- Philosophie sociale --- Aliénation (philosophie) --- Autorité --- Émancipation --- Guerre --- Humanitarisme --- Idéologie --- Individualisme --- Institution (philosophie) --- Justice (philosophie) --- Libéralisme (philosophie) --- Liberté --- Bon sauvage (philosophie) --- Morale politique --- Obéissance --- Ochlocratie --- Philosophie de la paix --- Philosophes-rois --- Pouvoir (philosophie) --- Révolte --- Révolutions --- Sociocratie --- Solidarisme --- Communautarisme --- Théorie du care --- Tolérance --- Totalitarisme --- Tradition (philosophie) --- Universalisme (philosophie) --- Utopies --- Communauté --- Concorde --- Convivialisme --- Domination --- Égalité --- Philosophie --- Études comparatives --- Méthode comparative

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