georgetown university press the un secretary-general and moral authority ethics and religion in international leadership dec 2007

... 2 First printing Printed in the United States of America Moral Authority and UN Secretary-General s Ethical Framework 19 religion, the study of ethics in international affairs is undergoing a resur- gence. 80 ... secretary-general fits well within the growing call for a better understanding of ethics in international affairs. Given the call for the secre...

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... justifiable in terms of its consistency with human nature. The human nature of both the moral subject and the moral object are expressed in the claims they make on each other and the choices they themselves ... are like the people who minister within the precincts of the Temple and have tasted the intensity of what obtains there. They know that the sanctuary...

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... of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.’’ 9 In ... purest definition is the science of ‘‘control and com- munication in the animal and the machine’’ and was devised as a field by Norbert Weiner in the 1940s. The word...

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... Jr., The Path of the Law I t has been more than 100 years since Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. declared that the future of the law lay not in legal doctrine but in the insights and understandings ... question, many populations in the United States experienced enormous gains in their health status in the past hundred and fifty years. In the late nineteenth century, du...

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... cultural univer- sal, then it surely follows that its inverse – a sense of impotence in the face of death – is also universal. While the impulses informing and sus- taining these rituals are universal, ... appealing, they invoke historical sameness prema- turely and thus obscure the past’s fundamental and inescapable alterity. In countering the tendency to refigure the past...

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... readership and literary production by maintaining a double focus: on the dominant arguments for and against this ideal, on the one hand, and on subaltern coun- terpublics – women, the working class, and ... Eng- land and France throughout the century. The British ‘defined themselves as Protestants struggling for survival against . . . the THE CRISIS OF LITERATURE IN TH...

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... not otherwise exist, though realizing them usually demands great skill and care (as we shall see in the case of Mandela). On the other hand, the separation between personal and institutional moral ... must win and maintain support, at least in part on the strength of their expression of and service to principled goals and commitments. If moral capital is a genuine po...

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... that such <lines> are unequal, when they are both concave in the same direction and either one of them is wholly contained by the other and by the straight <line> having the same limits ... do have the limits in a plane; and they shall either be wholly on the same side of the plane in which they have the limits, or have nothing on the other side. /4/...

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... develop in the presence of ground rules that facilitate their appearance and stability and determine the modalities and the conditions of their efficiency. These institutions, which define the ... buyer valuation and c(, q, ) as the seller cost of production.  is supposed to be increasing and concave in (, q) and c decreasing in  and convex in (, q)....

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