Adversaries And Authorities
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Author | : G. E. R. Lloyd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1996-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521556958 |
This is a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and differences between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy, concentrating on the period down to AD 300. Professor Lloyd studies such questions as the attitudes towards authority, the practice of confrontational debate, the role of methodological inquiries, the development of techniques of persuasion, the assumptions made about causal explanation and the focus of interest in the study of the heavens and in that of the human body. In each case the Greek and Chinese ways of posing the problems are carefully distinguished to avoid applying either Greek categories to Chinese thought or vice versa. Professor Lloyd shows that the science produced in each ancient civilisation differs in important respects and relates those differences to the values and social institutions in question.
Author | : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : William L. Rivers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780807061817 |
Author | : Arthur Isak Applbaum |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2000-07-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400822939 |
The adversary professions--law, business, and government, among others--typically claim a moral permission to violate persons in ways that, if not for the professional role, would be morally wrong. Lawyers advance bad ends and deceive, business managers exploit and despoil, public officials enforce unjust laws, and doctors keep confidences that, if disclosed, would prevent harm. Ethics for Adversaries is a philosophical inquiry into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful actions performed by those who occupy what Montaigne called "necessary offices." Applbaum begins by examining the career of Charles-Henri Sanson, who is appointed executioner of Paris by Louis XVI and serves the punitive needs of the ancien régime for decades. Come the French Revolution, the King's Executioner becomes the king's executioner, and he ministers with professional detachment to each defeated political faction throughout the Terror and its aftermath. By exploring one extraordinary role and the arguments that can be offered in its defense, Applbaum raises unsettling doubts about arguments in defense of less sanguinary professions and their practices. To justify harmful acts, adversaries appeal to arguments about the rules of the game, fair play, consent, the social construction of actions and actors, good outcomes in equilibrium, and the legitimate authority of institutions. Applbaum concludes that these arguments are weaker than supposed and do not morally justify much of the violation that professionals and public officials inflict. Institutions and the roles they create ordinarily cannot mint moral permissions to do what otherwise would be morally prohibited.
Author | : Mark A. Stoler |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2004-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807862304 |
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy.
Author | : George R. Berdes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780874624274 |
Author | : G. E. R. Lloyd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521894616 |
Author | : Jennifer N. Brass |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316721051 |
Governments throughout the developing world have witnessed a proliferation of non-governmental, non-profit organizations (NGOs) providing services like education, healthcare and piped drinking water in their territory. In Allies or Adversaries, Jennifer N. Brass explains how these NGOs have changed the nature of service provision, governance, and state development in the early twenty-first century. Analyzing original surveys alongside interviews with public officials, NGOs and citizens, Brass traces street-level government-NGO and state-society relations in rural, town and city settings of Kenya. She examines several case studies of NGOs within Africa in order to demonstrate how the boundary between purely state and non-state actors blurs, resulting in a very slow turn toward more accountable and democratic public service administration. Ideal for scholars, international development practitioners, and students interested in global or international affairs, this detailed analysis provides rich data about NGO-government and citizen-state interactions in an accessible and original manner.
Author | : Caroline Castiglione |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195173871 |
Four generations of the aristocratic Barberini family and its "vassals", clashed over how the early modern Roman countryside should be governed. Villagers sometimes cultivated noble interference, but they frequently resisted it through the strategies of adversarial literacy, political ways of reading and writing that challenged noble hegemony in the village.
Author | : George R. Berdes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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