“…Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. …”
Sumario

“…Communities of respect' are communities of people sharing common practices or a (partial) way of life; they include families, clubs, religious groups, and political parties. …”

“…As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets--among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident--people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children. …”

“…Together, they offer a shared vision which, in Hilary's words, "could serve as a manifesto for what the two of us would like philosophy to look like in the twenty-first century and beyond…”

“…Measurements of such disparate phenomena as subatomic masses, uncertainty, information, and human values share common features whose explication is central to the achievement of foundational work in any particular mathematical science as well as for the development of a coherent philosophy of science. …”

“…Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. …”

“…This Handbook presents the richness, nuances, and rationale of religions and their economic ethics. It shows that they share far more than divide them, at least when it comes to economic morality"--…”

“…Guided and organized by these sectoral concepts, accumulated empirical findings--often approaching what provocatively might be called private higher education "laws--" significantly enhance understanding of the extensive, varied, rapidly changing, and otherwise often vexing terrain under study. …”

“…Denn die Ideologie des Marxismus-Leninismus erzeugte zwar ein klares dichotomisches Weltbild; wie weit jedoch dessen Bedeutung faktisch reichte, ist eine weiterhin offene Frage. …”

“…Craftsmanship leads Sennett across time and space, from ancient Roman brickmakers to Renaissance goldsmiths to the printing presses of Enlightenment Paris and the factories of industrial London; in the modern world he explores what experiences of good work are shared by computer programmers, nurses and doctors, musicians, glassblowers, and cooks. …”

“…The contributors, who are former pupils, colleagues or collaborators with Peter Parsons, share a deep admiration for him and his work. Peter Parsons has, throughout his career, been engaged in research on newly discovered papyrus texts, and such texts play an important part in this volume's discussions. …”

“…But if you are peering methodically through its bulk of ads in search of a spring dress, you begin to shift uneasily in front of the hollow cheeks and zombie stares of the Vogue models, and to feel the generally chilly atmosphere of this publication. …”

“…They argue that these empires were interconnected from the very outset in their production and sharing of knowledge as well as in their economic activities. …”

“…A new social contract is also necessary that spreads the wealth through an equity share for all through "owning the robots" in a future where intelligent machines are on track to displace labor, depress income and transform the nature of work to an unprecedented degree. …”

“…Sometimes we appeal to both sometimes we need to appeal to shared social norms and sometimes, where there is no ethical community, we can appeal only to principles. …”
Sumario

“…With contributions from leading thinkers such as Henry Giroux, Ward Churchill, and Peter McLaren, as well as fresh perspectives from junior academics, this book provides a diverse and varied survey of anti-colonialism in the US and Canada. …”

“…Kranz takes us inside Mission Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids-still in their twenties, only a few years out of college-who had to figure it all out as they went along, creating a great and daring enterprise. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success. …”

“…For many people, symptomatic disease progresses and the pain become more chronic and may also be present at rest and during the night. The joint will feel stiff, resulting in typical pain and difficulty when initiating movement after a period of rest. …”

“…Infine, si è cercato di verificare se con le innovazioni apportate dopo il 1984 dalla legislazione bilaterale ai procedimenti diretti a dare rilevanza civile al matrimonio religioso, che hanno sensibilmente diminuito le differenze tra matrimonio canonico ed acattolico, si possa constatare l’inizio di un processo volto ad una sostanziale omologazione delle differenti forme di matrimonio religioso…”

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