In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into ...firsthand contact with the natural world. The aim was simple but revolutionary: sympathy with nature to increase the joy of living and foster stewardship of the earth. With this definitive edition, John Linstrom reintroducesThe Nature-Study Idea as an environmental classic for our time. It provides historical context through a wealth of related writings, and introductory essays relate Bailey's vision to current work in education and the intersection of climate change and culture. In this period of planetary turmoil, Bailey's ambition to cultivate wonder (in adults as well as children) and lead readers back into the natural world is more important than ever.
On Liberty Bromwich, David; Kateb, George; Mill, John Stuart ...
2003
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Since its first publication in 1859, few works of political philosophy have provoked such continuous controversy as John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, a passionate argument on behalf of freedom of ...self-expression. This classic work is now available in a new edition that also includes essays by distinguished scholars in a range of fields. The book begins with a biographical essay by David Bromwich and an interpretative essay by George Kateb. Then Jean Bethke Elshtain, Owen Fiss, Judge Richard A. Posner, and Jeremy Waldron present commentaries on the pertinence of Mill's thinking to current debates. They discuss, for example, the uses of authority and tradition, the shifting legal boundaries of free speech and free action, the relation of personal liberty to market individualism, and the tension between the right to live as one pleases and the right to criticize anyone's way of life.
Now available in paperback, this second edition reproduces the text of the first with the addition of an extensive postscript which defends the interpretation of Mill set out in the first edition.
Este volumen recoge las actas del XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Colombiana de Juristas Católicos, acogido por la Universidad Católica de Colombia, y organizado como siempre por la Unión ...Internacional de Juristas Católicos (Roma), el Grupo Sectorial en Ciencias Políticas de la Federación Internacional de Universidades Católicas (París) y el Consejo de Estudios Hispánicos Felipe II (Madrid). Según también lo acostumbrado, el congreso cerró un proyecto de investigación internacional trienal. En esta ocasión se desarrolló telemáticamente, por las razones conocidas, los días 26 y 27 de febrero de 2021.
El libro se divide en cinco partes y un apéndice. En la primera, retrospectiva, se trata de la laicidad católica de Dante y del origen protestante de la laicidad moderna. Se examinan a continuación las dos versiones de ésta, la francesa y la americana. Una tercera tematiza la relación entre laicidad moderna y libertad de religión, mientras que la siguiente pone el foco en la doctrina de la Iglesia. Sigue la conclusión, articulada y extensa. Un apéndice, que se explica por el lugar donde tuvo lugar el congreso, repasa el tema en Colombia.
Las cuestiones que se afrontan en estas páginas no dejan de ser actuales y perennes. El programa, concebido orgánicamente, se ha ejecutado razonablemente según la línea trazada en su diseño. Estamos, pues, ante un aporte útil a la filosofía de la política y el derecho público, amén de la doctrina social de la Iglesia.
Bajo la dirección de Miguel Ayuso (Madrid), han colaborado en el mismo los también profesores Danilo Castellano (Udine), Juan Fernando Segovia (Mendoza), Francisco Flórez (Bogotá), Nicolás Romero (Bogotá), Bernard Dumont (París), Julio Alvear (Santiago de Chile), José Joaquín Jerez (Madrid), Luis María de Ruschi (Buenos Aires), Ricardo Dip (São Paulo), Carlos Arnossi (Buenos Aires), Santiago Pérez Zapata (Bogotá) y Manuel Marín (Bogotá).
A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context
for deeper understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to
modern times
Freedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative
...theology. While it is often identified with modernity and even
postmodernity, freedom has long been an important topic for
reflection by both Christians and Muslims, discussed in both the
Bible and the Qurʾan. Each faith has a different way of engaging
with the idea of freedom shaped by the political context of their
beginnings. The New Testament emerged in a region under occupation
by the Roman Empire, whereas the Qurʾan was first received in
tribal Arabia, a stateless environment with political freedom.
Freedom: Christian and Muslim Perspectives , edited by
Lucinda Mosher, considers how Christian and Muslim faith
communities have historically addressed many facets of freedom. The
book presents essays, historical and scriptural texts, and
reflections. Topics include God's freedom, human freedom to obey
God, autonomy versus heteronomy, autonomy versus self-governance,
freedom from incapacitating addiction and desire, hermeneutic or
discursive freedom vis-à-vis scripture and tradition, religious and
political freedom, and the relationship between personal conviction
and public order.
The rich insights expressed in this unique interfaith discussion
will benefit readers-from students and scholars, to clerics and
community leaders, to politicians and policymakers-who will gain a
deeper understanding of how these two communities define freedom,
how it is treated in both religious and secular texts, and how to
make sense of it in the context of our contemporary lives.
Freedom: Christian and Muslim Perspectives considers
how these two faith communities have historically addressed
freedom. Through a series of essays, historical and scriptural
texts, and reflections, this unique interreligious dialogue
provides needed context for deeper understanding of interfaith
relations, from ancient to modern times.
This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty ...against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on the means allowing for the preservation and the loss of libertas. Considering the interplay of these traditions in the political debates of the first century BC, Dr Arena offers a significant reinterpretation of the political struggles of the time as well as a radical reappraisal of the role played by the idea of liberty in the practice of politics. She argues that, as a result of its uses in rhetorical debates, libertas underwent a form of conceptual change at the end of the Republic and came to legitimise a new course of politics, which led progressively to the transformation of the whole political system.
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