princeton university press philosophy and the mirror of nature jan 1981

... avant-garde, or as protecting men against the forces of superstition. 1 Further, in the course of the nineteenth century, a new form of culture had arisen -the culture of the man of letters, the intellectual who wrote poems and novels and political treatises, and criticisms ... to retain and relate the theory of esse ob- jectivum and the doctrine of simp...

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... world of inde- pendent political communities bound together by the rule of law rather than by the sovereignty of a single emperor. The Chinese can therefore be said to have been the pioneers of the ... the law of war. It tells the story, in narrative form, of the interplay through the centuriesbetween,ontheonehand,legal ideasaboutwarand,ontheotherhand,statepracti...

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... of the century: the fate of men is decided by their blood (or by the form and volume of their skull, or their size—or any other physical characteristic), and therefore by their heredity. At the end ... Tocqueville fears for the future of liberty. The source of the threat, however, is the same: it is the modern society born of the Revo- lution. And the i...

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... Thus, the argument of this book may be a simple statement, but demonstrating the argument, which is the task at hand, is complex and full of challenges. Scope of Project The central themes of ... America, the work of John Stu- art Mill and John Locke has led to the argument that what tolerance best exemplies is the freedom to enter and exit the marketplace...

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... of cials and policymakers recognize the gravity of the threat posed by al Qaeda before September 11, and, if so, when? 2. Did they understand the connection between the terrorist threat and the ... investigations, and dramatically enhancing information sharing within the FBI and between the bureau and the rest of the Intelligence Community. The Gilmore Comm...

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... characteristics: the distinction between the sensuous and the non- sensuous since the time of Plato. The outcome of this distinction can be seen throughout the history of Western philosophy, as the abstracting ... show themselves as they are. But “con-frontation” also means that we position ourselves as diff erent from the Other. The Auseinandersetzung is an encou...

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... of humanity, with the spread of the Gregorian calendar and the heliocentric idea of the world. The ‘incipient phase’ began in the mid-eighteenth century and ended in the 1870s. The concept of the unitary ... definition – the compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole’ 20 – by Roland Robertson. Anthony Gi...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... to enter the afterlife.  e feast, he observed, marked the end of this period and the celebration of the soul’s arrival into the land of the dead, indicated by the now-dry bones and the reestablishment ... In the case of the Maize God, this resurrection involved his return to the surface of the earth through the back of the “turtle.”  As a m...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:36

... overlooks the outdoor enclosure of twenty chimpanzees. The group is as close-knit as any family can be; they are together day and night, and several of the adults were born into the colony. One of these ... stupefaction. How in the world could a group of scientists come up with such a pale view of the natural universe, of the human race, of the people clos...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:58

... component of the Margulis thin part of M. Lifts of the closed geodesic lie in the convex hull of the limit set; lifts of the thin part touch the sphere at infinity in the limit set and have Euclidean diameters ... of the unit disk to the outside of the Feigenbaum Julia set transports the dynamics of z2 to that of f. Since the Julia set is quite dens...

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