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“arnaud maurel”

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  • Life is not to desire

    by Arnaud Maurel ...
    Desire is human, we desire all the time, and without desire the objective of our lives is not determined we will live only because we have been given life lost in the middle of a vast space of possibility. Nevertheless, it seems farfetched to think that because we desire we will be able to have the end of our means. Life is about encounters, unexpected events, successes and failures. Consequently, ... Read more

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    How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

    by John McWhorter ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We’re ... Read more

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  • Understanding John Rawls: Justice as Fariness

    Understanding Philosophy, #1

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 1 - Understanding Philosophy
    This guide explains Rawls's concept of 'justice as fairness'. It covers such topics as the two principles of justice, the principle of fairness, the original position and the veil of ignorance, and the difference principle, as well as examining some of the criticisms levelled at Rawls's arguments. ... Read more

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  • Respect in a World of Inequality

    by Richard Sennett ...
    The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.As various forms of social welfare were dismantled though the last decade of the twentieth century, many thinkers argued that human well-being was best served by a focus on potential, not need.Richard Sennett thinks differently. In this dazzling blend of personal memoir and reflective scholarship, he addresses need and social responsibility across ... Read more

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  • Shame

    A Brief History

    by Peter N. Stearns ...
    Series series History of Emotions
    Shame varies as an individual experience and in its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame’s power to complicate individual, international, cultural, and political relationships.Peter N. Stearns draws on his ... Read more

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  • Political Thought

    A Student's Guide

    by Hunter Baker, David S. Dockery ...
    Series series Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition
    Politics affect everyone everywhere. Yet most people do not know how to communicate or think methodically (much less unemotionally) about the issues at hand. What we need is for our thinking to be grounded in the basic framework of order, freedom, justice, and equality.Award-winning professor Hunter Baker helps political amateurs gain a foundational understanding of the subject and encourages ... Read more

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  • Disputation Arenas: Harnessing Conflict and Competitiveness

    by David Brin ...
    How can we harness the vast potential of the internet to actively solve problems? Picture a venue where adversaries can no longer get away with just screaming past each other, but must actively answer each others' accusations, criticisms and complaints. A place where one group's vision -- or model of the world -- can be tested, dented, appraised... and possibly improved under the watchful gaze of ... Read more

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  • Why Place Matters

    Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America

    Edited by Wilfred M. McClay, Ted V. McAllister ...
    Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life.Do we, in losing our places, lose the ... Read more

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  • Self, Other, Community: Meditations on Social Order and Social Breakdown

    by George A. Kendall ...
    This is a book about two forms of energy—binding and expansive—and how getting the relationship between them wrong is destroying us. The modern world sees society as a collection of autonomous individuals, held together to some extent by the self-interest of its individual members, but excluding any notion of community—i.e., relationships that bind persons to one another in a way that transcends ... Read more

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  • White Male Privilege

    by Mark Rosenkranz ...
    What does the color White look like? In White Male Privilege, Mark Rosenkranz attempts to answer this question by exploring what it means to be white and male in today's world. Touching on subjects like white condescension, racism, sexism and discrimination, White Male Privilege stresses the importance of understanding that individuals have different perspectives, and it's these perspectives that ... Read more

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  • A Moral Basis for Liberty

    by Robert Sirico ...
    An outline of the moral foundation of the free market economy, built upon respect for private property and voluntary activity. ... Read more

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  • Beyond Self-Interest

    Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It

    by Krzysztof Pelc ...
    A provocative retelling of the workings of self-interest in contemporary market society, which claims the world increasingly belongs to passionates, obsessives, and fanatics: those who do things for their own sake, rather than as means to other ends. In our capitalist market society, we have come to accept that the way to get ahead is through strong will, grit, and naked ambition. This belief has ... Read more

    $22.79 USD