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Democratic Law

by Seana Valentine Shiffrin

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 In this book, based on her 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers an original, deontological account of democracy, law, and their interrelation. Her central thesis is that democracy and democratic law have intrinsically valuable, interconnected communicative functions. Democracy and democratic law together allow us to fulfill our fundamental duties to convey to each another messages of equal respect by fashioning the sorts of public joint commitments to act that a sincere message of equal respect requires. Law and democracy are essential to each other: the aspirations of democracy cannot be realized except through a legal system, and, conversely, law can fulfill its primary function only in a democratic context.After defending these theses, Shiffrin explores two doctrinal examples to illustrate how a communicative conception of democratic law would yield concrete implications. First, articulating the special democratic character of judicially articulated common law, she resists instrumental, outcome-oriented conceptions of law and defends the essential importance of the common law duty of good faith in contracts. Second, appealing to the need for law to articulate a coherent set of moral commitments, she criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court''s approach to constitutional balancing. In a set of commentaries, Niko Kolodny, Richard Brooks, and Anna Stilz offer illuminating and sometimes provocative discussion of both the philosophical and the legal aspects of Shiffrin''s discussion. Shiffrin''s responses expand upon themes concerning legal compliance, commitments, communication, dissent, political participation, and the permissible range of state interests.
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Rules For Wrongdoers - Law, Morality, War

by Arthur Ripstein

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 Arthur Ripstein''s lectures focus on the two bodies of rules governing war: the jus ad bellum, which regulates resort to armed force, and the jus in bello, which sets forth rules governing the conduct of armed force and applies equally to all parties. Ripstein argues that recognizing both sets of rules as distinctive prohibitions, rather than as permissions, can reconcile the supposed tension between them. He contends that the law and morality of war are in fact aligned, because the central wrong of war is that war is the condition which force decides. In his first lecture, "Rules for Wrongdoers," he explains how moral principles governing an activity apply even to those who are not permitted to engage in them. In his second lecture, "Combatants and Civilians," he develops a parallel account of the distinction between combatants and civilians. The volume includes an introduction by editor Saira Mohamed and subsequent essays by commentators Oona A. Hathaway, Christopher Kutz, and Jeff McMahan. Rules for Wrongdoers represents a major statement on the ethics of war by one of the most distinguished thinkers in the field.
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Popularizing Scholarly Research - Research Methods And Practices

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Twenty Lessons In Environmental Sociology

by Gould e Lewis

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Digital Dilemmas - Power, Resistance, And The Internet

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 Digital Dilemmas is a groundbreaking ethnographic, mixed method approach to understanding dynamics of power and resistance as they are played out around the future of the internet.
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Understanding French Verse - A Guide For Singers

by David Hunter

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Ties That Bind - Maternal Imagery And Discourse In Indian Buddhism

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 Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism, drawing on textual sources preserved in Pali and Sanskrit. She demonstrates that Buddhism in India had a complex and ambivalent relationship with mothers and motherhood-symbolically, affectively, and institutionally.
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Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights

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 In Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights, editors Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K. Woods bring together a stellar group of contributors from across the social sciences to apply a broad yet conceptually unified array of advanced social science research concepts to the study of human rights and human rights law.
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Crime And Criminals - Contemporary And Classic Readings In Criminology

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 A vibrant collection of readings designed to provide a comprehensive-and accessible-introduction to criminology, Crime and Criminals: Contemporary and Classic Readings, Second Edition, brings together selections from diverse and dynamic sources, including sociologists, criminologists, and scholars from other related disciplines. Featuring twenty-four new readings, this incisive text addresses the broad range of subjects typically covered in a criminologycourse, including society's attempts to control crime and criminal behavior.
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Naked Seeing - The Great Perfection, The Wheel Of Time, And Visionary Buddhism In Renaissance Tibet

by Christopher Hatchell

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Naked Seeing - The Great Perfection, The Wheel Of Time, And Visionary Buddhism In Renaissance Tibet

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Pure And Modern Milk - An Environmental History Since 1900

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 A close look at milk and its history as a pure and modern consumer product in American culture.
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Samuels And Ropper'S Neurological Cpcs From The New England Journal Of Medicine

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 Samuels and Ropper's Neurological CPCs from the New England Journal of Medicine is a collection of clinicopathological cases (CPCs) authored by two of the most frequent discussors of the storied "Clinical Pathologic Conference" first introduced by Richard Cabot in the early 1900s and published in the "New England Journal of Medicine."
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How And Why People Change - Foundations Of Psychological Therapy

by Ian M. (Professor Of Psychology, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand) Evans

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Pursuing The Good Life - 100 Reflections In Positive Psychology

by Christopher (Professor Of Psychology, Professor Of Psychology, University Of Michigan) Peterson

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 What makes life most worth living? In Pursuing the Good Life, Christopher Peterson, one of the founders and leaders of positive psychology, compiles for the first time a collection of his reflections on what positive psychologists have learned about the good life, with meditations on how to engage in it. With the humor and wisdom that have made him an award-winning teacher, Peterson explores a range of concerns on the groundswell of positive psychology andthe lessons it embraces. There is no one correct form of the good life, but the masterful insight collected here offers the mindfulness to chase it.
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The British Aestheticians Guide To Waxing The Lady Garden

by Claire Barnes

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The Gospel In Christian Traditions

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 The Gospel in Christian Traditions demonstrates the continuity through history and through a very wide range of Christian denominational and cultural traditions of a single focal message: the "gospel" message about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Getting Health Reform Right - A Guide To Improving Performance And Equity

by Marc (, Harvard School Of Public Health, Boston, Usa) Roberts, Michael (, Harvard School Of Public Health, Boston, Usa) Reich, Peter (, Harvard School Of Public Health, Boston, Usa) Berman e William (, Harvard School Of Public Health, Boston, Usa) Hsiao

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Equality And Tradition - Questions Of Value In Moral And Political Theory

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 This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies.
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Reification - A New Look At An Old Idea

by Jonathan Lear, Judith Butler e Raymond Geuss

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 In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades.
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The Eyes Of The People - Democracy In An Age Of Spectatorship

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Reconciling Our Aims - In Search Of Bases For Ethics

by Allan Gibbard

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 In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics.
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Pleasure And Change - The Aesthetics Of Canon

by Sir Frank (Professor, Professor, University Of Cambridge (Emeritus)) Kermode

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 The issue of the canon has been debated in academic circles for many years. This title contains two lectures on this important subject - delivered as the Tanner lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001 - by the literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. It reinterprets the question of canon formation in light of two central notions: pleasure and change.
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The Fall Of A Sparrow

by Salim (Formerly President, Formerly President, Bombay Natural History Society) Ali

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 The late Salim Ali was one of the great ornithologists of the world. With wit and elegance, he observes his own life and the changing world in which he lived in this autobiography.
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