Stove david charles (4 risultati)
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Da: LittleBookNook, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.LittleBookNook
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EUR 23,23
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Service of the Engine is a common local Chichewa-English expression in the Malawian fishing village where the author did her fieldwork. It refers to the practice of taking various pills--known locally as Ciba--in order to prevent and cure diseases associated with sex. This study explores the… sensitive interface between the use of pharmaceuticals available through an extensive informal distribution system and self-treatment of sex-related diseases. The author examines morally sensitive situations in which men and women opt for Ciba and evaluates its efficacy or effectiveness. The discussion not only covers physical and metaphorical aspects of efficacy but also the possible social and moral effects of medication. It offers a fresh and empirically grounded perspective on the links between efficacy sex-related diseases and moralities. Birgitte Bruun graduated from the Institute of Anthropology University of Copenhagen Denmark and is currently working with reproductive health projects for United Nations Population Fund UNFPA in Jakarta Indonesia. | Pages: 347.
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Da: LittleBookNook, Gillette, WY, U.S.A.LittleBookNook
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EUR 50,17
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Fine. The idea of enlightenment entails liberty equality rationalism secularism and the connection between knowledge and human well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence political mass murder and two world wars the spread of enlightenment values has become the yardstick by whic…h moral political and even scientific advances are measured. Indeed most critiques of the enlightenment ideal point to failure in implementation rather than principle. By contrast David Stove in On Enlightenment attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures. Stove is not insensitive to the many valuable aspects of enlightenment thought. He champions the use of reason and rationality and recognizes the falsity of religious claims as well as the importance of individual liberty. What he rejects is the enlightenment's uncritical optimism regarding social progress and its willingness to embrace revolutionary change. What evidence is there that the elimination of superstition will lead to happiness? Or that it is possible to accept Darwinism without Social Darwinism? Or that the enlightenment's liberal rationalistic outlook will ever lead to the kind of social progress envisioned by its advocates. Despite their best intentions social reformers who attempt to improve the world as a whole inevitably make things worse. He advocates a conservative 'go slow' approach to change pointing out that today's social structures are so large and complex that any widespread social reform will have innumerable unforeseen consequences. For example the welfare state may diminish individual initiative the use of pesticides may increase the food supply while polluting the water supply the popularizing of university education may lead to a decline in academic standards. Since government has a virtual monopoly on large-scale change it follows in Stove's view that its powers must be limited in order to prevent large-scale damage. Instead he argues that reforms when they are to be made at all must be realistic local necessary and never coercive. Writing in the conservative tradition of Edmund Burke with the same passion for clarity and intellectual honesty as George Orwell David Stove was one of the most precise articulate and insightful philosophers of his day. 'Never just an academic Stove was also a prominent often crotchety public intellectual of a conservative and all too often reactionary bent many of whose views were extremist on any account and his targets were many. . For Stove the important question about a belief is not whether it is extreme or mainstream but whether it is true or probable or has sound evidentiary and/or rational credentials. In this he was surely right.' -D. D. Todd Philosophy in Review David Stove 1927-1994 taught philosophy at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He is the author of Against the Idols of the Age and Scientific Irrationalism both available from Transaction. Andrew Irvine is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia Vancouver. Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion. | Pages: 232.
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Da: Libro Co. Italia Srl, San Casciano Val di Pesa, FI, ItaliaLibro Co. Italia Srl
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EUR 14,72
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Brossura. Condizione: new. Traduzione di Ellero O.Milano, 2017; br., pp. 160, cm 21x13,8.(Zolle). La benevolenza è una virtù? In molti casi sembrerebbe di sì. Ma quando si parla della "benevolenza allargata" dell'Illuminismo, secondo David Stove la risposta è chiaramente no. Filosofo controverso e controcorrente, scomodo e origi…nale, egli fornisce ancora oggi risposte sorprendenti agli interrogativi della società contemporanea. Di fronte al progressivo e sempre più evidente disfacimento delle democrazie occidentali, scorre a ritroso il loro recente passato e riesamina con occhio critico tutte le correnti di pensiero che hanno caratterizzato la storia occidentale negli ultimi secoli: dall'Illuminismo al comunismo, dal darwinismo al postmodernismo. Stove chiude questo saggio riportando nell'ultima pagina - che sarà letteralmente l'ultima che scriverà - la storia di un indiano solitario che con la sua canoa andava a pescare controcorrente. Ma a forza di lottare contro il vento, le correnti, la furia delle acque, un giorno, stremato, decise di abbandonare il remo nell'acqua, si accese la pipa e incrociò le braccia al petto. «E se saremo razionali anche noi, allora ci comporteremo anche noi come l'indiano di questa storia», conclude Stove. Libro.
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Da: Mooney's bookstore, Den Helder, Paesi BassiMooney's bookstore
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EUR 72,35
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Condizione: Very Good.
