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The Modern World Dictionary of the English Language ...
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1380 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society
Author | : Dennis Carl Rasmussen |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0271045760 |
Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique. In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith&’s sympathy with Rousseau&’s concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which Smith crafted his arguments to defend commercial society against these charges. These arguments, Rasmussen emphasizes, were pragmatic in nature, not ideological: it was Smith&’s view that, all things considered, commercial society offered more benefits than the alternatives. Just because of this pragmatic orientation, Smith&’s approach can be useful to us in assessing the pros and cons of commercial society today and thus contributes to a debate that is too much dominated by both dogmatic critics and doctrinaire champions of our modern commercial society.
Three Lectures on the Beginnings of Modern Socialism
Author | : Sir Michael Sadler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Social sciences |
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Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society
Author | : Bernard S Phillips |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317257391 |
Is there a growing gap in today's world between cultural aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap? How can these forces be changed? To answer these questions, Phillips and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method, drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, philosophers, educators, psychiatrists, and novelists. They find substantial evidence for a widening gap, suggesting an invisible crisis throughout contemporary society. They also find substantial evidence that a simplistic and static metaphysical stance or worldview is largely responsible for that gap, and that an alternative worldview can work to close that gap.