“…Second, autonomy must be treated as a composite concept and hence not capturable in simple definitions such as acting on one's higher order desires or on principles one endorses. …”
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“…Key to this approach is an examination of human beings as parts of nature, who act as natural causes and are determined by their sensibilities and sentiments. …”

“…History shows that disasters are not simply random acts. Where is the logic in creating an elaborate set of fire codes for buildings, and then allowing structures like the Twin Towers-tall, impressive, and risky-to go up as design experiments? …”

“…Drawing on Peirce’s ideas, Raposa develops a semiotic conception of persons/selves emphasizing the role that acts of attention play in shaping human inferences and perception. …”

“…She argues that leaders who attempt to maximize their power at home, and state power abroad, are in a constant balancing act as they try to win wars while remaining in office. …”

“…Implicit throughout the book is Attridge's view that literature, more than philosophy, politics, or even religion, does singular justice to our ethical impulses and acts. Attridge follows Coetzee's lead in exploring a number of issues such as interpretation and literary judgment, responsibility to the other, trust and betrayal, artistic commitment, confession, and the problematic idea of truth to the self…”

“…Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. …”

“…Ces onze définitions originales sont à chaque fois précédées d'une introduction générale présentant les enjeux théoriques et pratiques qu'implique l'acte de définir ainsi que de brèves notices situant l'auteur et son oeuvre. …”

“…Indeed, their example was cited during the final Parliamentary debates, in 1951, that saw the last of the witchcraft acts repealed, and their names were chanted, as both inspiration and incantation, by the women beyond the wire at Greenham Common. …”

“…As John Dewey later observed, Michigan became an experimental laboratory for new meanings to unfold, new acts to propose."…”

“…Le service s'accompagne d'un discours mettant en exergue le dévouement voire le sacrifice, tout en demandant à être confirmé en actes. Ainsi est-il un fondement de la fidélité aux princes, doit-il être profitable à chacun, et ouvre-t-il la porte à la négociation. …”

“…Nous l'avons récemment redécouvert, par des actes de terrorisme et de nouvelles guerres de Religion, en France et ailleurs. …”

“…In discussions of music from both popular and classical traditions, Sanden demonstrates how liveness is performed by acts of human expression in productive tension with the electronic machines involved in making this music, whether on stage or on recording. …”
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“…And is God godly when acting beyond the comprehension of prophets, let alone ordinary human beings? …”

“…And is God godly when acting beyond the comprehension of prophets, let alone ordinary human beings? …”

“…It brings to the fore the deconstructive powers of the darker type of romance and its adequacy to perform traumatic acting out and fragmentation. It also zooms in on the variations on the ghost story as medium for the evocation of trans-generational trauma, as well as on the therapeutic drive of romance that favors a narrative presentation of the working-through phase of trauma. …”
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“…In discussions of music from both popular and classical traditions, Sanden demonstrates how liveness is performed by acts of human expression in productive tension with the electronic machines involved in making this music, whether on stage or on recording. …”
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“…Thus, the book demonstrates the very act of gendering as it relates to friendship as one of the most important forms of social interaction…”

“…The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality; it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. …”

“…S’hi evidencia també una mateixa voluntat de construir una xarxa cultural sòlida per al país: la col·laboració en revistes, la participació en actes públics i el treball incansable i coordinat per aconseguir que la literatura tingués un paper fonamental de transformació social i personal. …”