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Seit je haben die Philosophen sich als Verteidiger der Vernunft betrachtet und in dieser Funktion das soziale Leben kritisch begleitet. Das Vernünftige aber ist nach Aristoteles' Definition das Mittlere, die Extreme Meidende. Seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts jedoch treten Denker auf, die versuchen, Vernunft zu radikalisieren, ins Äußerste zu treiben und damit deren Umschlagen in Unvernunft bewirken. Als Vertreter dieser Tendenz werden Fried...

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In this book, Keen Babbage explores the realistic demands of teaching and the unlimited possibilities within the profession. This book will challenge and inspire new and experienced teachers to become results-driven in order to benefit students and to create a productive and rewarding career.

Scholar, poet, Christian apologist, fiction writer, and essayist, C S Lewis is perhaps best known for his series of children's fantasies, "The Chronicles of Narnia". This book breaks down the intricacies of Lewis' work and analyzes the ideas presented.

Das erste Buch für Katzenzüchter, das sich im Detail und sehr verständlich mit der Praxis der Katzenzucht beschäftigt und die gängigsten Themen der Katzenzucht beschreibt. Sie finden hier viele Informationen über die Grundvoraussetzungen für eine erfolgreiche Zucht, den richtigen Kauf und Verkauf von Katzen, einen anwaltlich erstellten Kaufvertrag in deutsch und englisch, Lehrreiches über Deckung, Schwangerschaft, Geburt, Aufzucht, Früherkennu...

Education law has emerged as an important concern to educators in many countries around the world. While there are similarities in the range of rights that students in various countries have, there are also many differences. The Educational Rights of Students: International Perspectives on Demystifying the Legal Issues provides a comprehensive examination on the status of the legal rights of students in 13 international communities. Written by...

The nutrition of the young pig is one of the most active scientific fields of swine nutrition throughout the world. Its immense importance to the profitability of any pig production is demonstrated by the fact that maximal early growth in pigs, which depends on correct nutrition, is extremely efficient, yet hardly realised in most commercial situations. This book explains how to provide accurate nutrition to young pigs under commercial conditi...

Martin Heidegger: Paths Taken, Paths Opened takes Heidegger's philosophy on its own terms and explores the pivotal significance of his phenomenology for political theory. Heidegger opposed, at the deepest level, everything that informs the global, technological civilization that seems to be the fate of humanity. Yet even in the liberal and technologically oriented West we cannot proceed without a confrontation with his thought. In this timely ...

The authors of this book address how the fundamental tensions between modern liberalism and the ideas of the founders have played out in the context of contemporary thought and practice in American politics.

What's It Like to Live Off Your Talents? If you think that working from home in your pajamas-writing a book, painting a masterpiece or designing a work of art-sounds like a fun, carefree life . you're right! In this book, creative types discuss what life is really like when you take the plunge into creative self-employment. From waiting for clients to pay up and battling the "lonelies" to gaining self-assurance and growing your business, you'l...

In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in immigration, the hidden epidemic of medical error, the l...

The purpose of this volume is to illustrate the wide scope of possibilities in interpreting and promoting research-teaching synergies. At the same time it is a goal to look more explicitly at what insitutions can do to promote two distinct forms of research-based teaching.

Thomas Schramme erklärt die Einbeziehung der Bürger in die Gesellschaft zum zentralen Motiv sozialer Gerechtigkeit. Damit löst er die philosophische Gerechtigkeitstheorie aus ihrer Verankerung in einer abstrakten, ideal konzipierten Welt. Für ihn ist Gerechtigkeit keine Kategorie, die nur in den Köpfen von Philosophen definiert wird. Vielmehr wird ihr Inhalt in gesellschaftlichen Kämpfen festgelegt. Sowohl das tatsächlich Realisierbare als auc...

An entertaining and enthralling account of the author's experiences and escapades in the Church Lad's Brigade, Home Guard, and 6th Airborne Division from Pegasus Bridge to Palestine.

Recent decades have witnessed the transition from the government of rural areas towards processes of governance in which the boundaries between the state and civil society are blurred. As a result, governance is commonly linked to bottom-up or community-based approaches to planning and development, which are said to empower rural citizens and liberate them from the disabling structures of top-down government control. At the same time, however,...

Reinventing Critical Pedagogy is divided into three thematic areas: "Race, Ethnicity, and Critical Pedagogy, " which exposes the pervasiveness of white supremacy and ethnic conflict, "Theoretical Concerns, " in which authors rethink the basic premises of capitalism, alienation, experience, religion, and social justice through a critical theory lens, a critical pedagogy staple, finally, "Applications, Extensions, and Empirical Studies" looks at...

This book is written for those seeking a decision theory appropriate for use in serious choices such as insurance. It employs stages of knowledge ahead to track satisfactions and dissatisfactions. From experimental and questionnaire data, people take into account such stages of knowledge ahead satisfactions and dissatisfactions. This means we must go beyond standard decision theories like expected utility or cumulative prospect theory.

Forgiveness, Mercy, and Clemency" examines the registers of individual psychology, religious belief, social practice, and political power that circulate in and around those who forgive, grant mercy, or pose clemency power.

Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really hard stare, and people who believe that the world is ruled by 12-foot lizard-men. In Out of the Ordinary, a collection of his journalism from the Guardian, he turns his attention to irrational beliefs much closer to home, investigating the ways in which we sometimes manage to convince ourselves that all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense ...