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Inleiding tot het denken van de Frans-joodse filosoof (1905), gevolgd door 4 korte essays van zijn hand.

This book is a well informed and discriminating account of the main ethical problems that have been discussed this century in England, France, and the U.S. Besides dealing with key concepts in the work of Ayer, Hare, Moore, Nowell-Smith, Prichard, Ross, Sartre, Stevenson, Urmson, and Wittgenstein, this third edition includes a discussion of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice.

In this book the author examines the notion of a "right" and its relation to other moral, legal, and political notions, which often accompany it. In stressing the variety of things to which we are said to have rights, he aims to free the analysis of the notion from the narrow restrictions to which many philosophers and jurisprudents confine it. By examining in close detail the logical and linguistic features, not only of "a right" but also for "liberty", "privilege", "power", and "claim", etc. he tries to establish the exact position in our thinking of these notions and to disprove many current theories about them and their inter-relations.

Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores the Lahu society in Southwest China where practical gender equality has become the byproduct of a potent ideology of gender unity, vividly expressed by the proverb, "chopsticks only work in pairs."

Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these ways and more. He also takes a look at the history of the chess computer, and how its 'thinking' methods have developed since the early days. The book features an investigation of human vs. machine contests, including the recent Kasparov vs. "Deep Junior" and Kramnik vs. "Deep Fritz" matches, in which honours ended even.

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Drie overbeschaafde mensen met sterk tegengestelde karakters ontmoeten elkaar in een pension in Londen, waardoor hun levens sterk worden beïnvloed.

The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee to France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less startling: bloody war in Ireland, Union with Scotland, Jacobite intrigue, deep involvement in two major European wars, Britain's emergence as a great power, a 'financial revolution', greater religious toleration, a riven Church, and a startling growth of parliamentary government. Such changes were only part of the transformation of English society at the time. An enriching torrent of new ideas from the likes of Newton, Defoe, and Addison, spread through newspapers, periodicals, and coffee-houses, provided new views and values that some embraced and others loathed. England's horizons were also growing, especially in the Caribbean and American colonies. For many, however, the benefits were uncertain: the slave trade flourished, inequality widened, and the poor and 'disorderly' were increasingly subject to strictures and statutes. If it was an age of prospects it was also one of anxieties.

Inspecteur Duck van Schotland verdiept zich in de merkwaardige dood van de paus.

Portret van het steeds veranderende Jeruzalem vanaf de oudste tijden tot kort na de Zesdaagse Oorlog in 1968.

Bundeling van enkele bekende en minder bekende werken van de Vlaamse auteur (1912-1979). De Kapellekensbaan, Eros en de eenzame man, Wapenbroeders, Het nieuwe onkruid [en] 90 Mensen

Breed opgezette studie van hand-, vinger- en zithoudingen en de betekenis en achtergrond ervan in het hindoeïsme en het boeddhisme.

What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live? If we can, what would it be like, and how are we going to know when we have found it? To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, evolution, game theory, and works of fiction, in addition to the classic moral philosophy of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Kant, and Confucius. By choosing some of the finest pieces of writing, old and new, in and about ethics, he conveys the intellectual excitement of the search for answers to basic questions about how we ought to live. From the debates of Socrates and the profound writing of Rousseau to Jane Goodall's reflections on the ethics of chimpanzee kinship and Luther's commentary on the Sixth Commandment (thou shalt not kill), this engaging reader offers a complete and thorough introduction to the fascinating world of ethical debate.

Presents the major issues in Aristotle's writings on Friendship.

We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in these basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery.



The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just as materials for philosophy. At the center of his study is the question of how we can understand Greek tragedy at all, when its world is so far from ours.



Williams explains how it is that when the ancients speak, they do not merely tell us about themselves, but about ourselves. Shame and Necessity gives a new account of our relations to the Greeks, and helps us to see what ethical ideas we need in order to live in the modern world.

This is an important full-length study of the work of this controversial thinker by leading political philosophers and social theorists, and includes a reply written by MacIntyre.

Beschrijving van de opkomst, het hoogtepunt en de achteruitgang van Nederland als centrum van de wereldhandel tijdens de Gouden Eeuw.