Author: Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Constitution of the Society of Sons of the Revolution
Author: Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Edmund Burke, Volume I
Author: F. P Lock
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191551562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 613
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Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) before entering the political arena. A Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, his speeches are still read and studied as classics of political thought, and through his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) he has continued to exercise a posthumous influence as `the father of conservatism'. This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. Lavishly illustrated, it provides an authoritative account of the complexity and breadth of Burke's philosophical and political writing and examines its origins in his personal experiences and the political world of his day. This outstanding book will be be required reading for anybody seeking a fuller understanding of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and political thought.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191551562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 613
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Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) before entering the political arena. A Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, his speeches are still read and studied as classics of political thought, and through his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) he has continued to exercise a posthumous influence as `the father of conservatism'. This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. Lavishly illustrated, it provides an authoritative account of the complexity and breadth of Burke's philosophical and political writing and examines its origins in his personal experiences and the political world of his day. This outstanding book will be be required reading for anybody seeking a fuller understanding of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and political thought.
The Prominent Families of the United States of America
Author: Arthur Meredyth Burke
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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History of New England: and 5 have added t. p. : History of New England from the revolution of the seventeenth century to the revolution of the eighteenth
Author: John Gorham Palfrey
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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A handbook to the public picture galleries of Europe
Author: Kate Mary M. Thompson
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Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Languages : en
Pages : 560
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1882-1887
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Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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What's Wrong with Rights?
Author: Nigel Biggar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192606549
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imperial arrogance? Are rights ethically fundamental, proudly impervious to changing circumstances? Should judges strive to extend the reach of rights from civil Hamburg to anarchical Basra? Should judicial oligarchies, rather than legislatures, decide controversial ethical issues by inventing novel rights? Ought human rights advocates learn greater sympathy for the dilemmas facing those burdened with government? These are the questions that What's Wrong with Rights? addresses. In doing so, it draws upon resources in intellectual history, legal philosophy, moral philosophy, moral theology, human rights literature, and the judgments of courts. It ranges from debates about property in medieval Christendom, through Confucian rights-scepticism, to contemporary discussions about the remedy for global hunger and the justification of killing. And it straddles assisted dying in Canada, the military occupation of Iraq, and genocide in Rwanda. What's Wrong with Rights? concludes that much contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance of fostering civic virtue, corrodes military effectiveness, subverts the democratic legitimacy of law, proliferates publicly onerous rights, and undermines their authority and credibility. The solution to these problems lies in the abandonment of rights-fundamentalism and the recovery of a richer public discourse about ethics, one that includes talk about the duty and virtue of rights-holders.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192606549
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of a right be individualistic, subverting the common good? Should the right against torture be absolute, even though the heavens fall? Are human rights universal or merely expressions of Western neo-imperial arrogance? Are rights ethically fundamental, proudly impervious to changing circumstances? Should judges strive to extend the reach of rights from civil Hamburg to anarchical Basra? Should judicial oligarchies, rather than legislatures, decide controversial ethical issues by inventing novel rights? Ought human rights advocates learn greater sympathy for the dilemmas facing those burdened with government? These are the questions that What's Wrong with Rights? addresses. In doing so, it draws upon resources in intellectual history, legal philosophy, moral philosophy, moral theology, human rights literature, and the judgments of courts. It ranges from debates about property in medieval Christendom, through Confucian rights-scepticism, to contemporary discussions about the remedy for global hunger and the justification of killing. And it straddles assisted dying in Canada, the military occupation of Iraq, and genocide in Rwanda. What's Wrong with Rights? concludes that much contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance of fostering civic virtue, corrodes military effectiveness, subverts the democratic legitimacy of law, proliferates publicly onerous rights, and undermines their authority and credibility. The solution to these problems lies in the abandonment of rights-fundamentalism and the recovery of a richer public discourse about ethics, one that includes talk about the duty and virtue of rights-holders.
Annual Proceedings
Author: Sons of the Revolution. Pennsylvania Society
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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A Brief Biographical Dictionary
Author: Charles Hole
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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