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The attacks on New York in September 2001 and subsequent attacks on other Western targets continue to serve as a stimulus for a number of academic disciplines.
Wickham, G.
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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To set up a platform for evaluating energy efficiency of water chiller and water source heat pump systems with EER or COP, the method of the second thermodynamic perfectibility was introduced.
Ma Yitai +4 more
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New education and school work: horizon and polarities of an educational vision
In this article the authors revisit the main principles and key concepts of the New Education and point out the importance of developmental psychology and of the need to allow children to mature (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) as well as to promote their ...
Alberto FILIPE ARAÚJO +1 more
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Research on the relationship between computing and the meaning of human life flourishes proportionally to the increasing digitalization of our world. More and more, reflections on ethics and politics, spiritual values and religious experiences, beliefs,
Prof. Dr. Daniel Burgos +3 more
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Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind [PDF]
Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus (Political-Philosophical Treatise) aims to establish the principles of good governance and of a happy society, and to open up new directions for the future development of humankind. W.
Korab-Karpowicz, W. Julian
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Perfectionism and competitive anxiety in athletes: Differentiating striving for perfection and negative reactions to imperfection [PDF]
Whereas some researchers have argued that perfectionism in sports is maladaptive because it is related to dysfunctional characteristics Such as higher competitive anxiety, the present article argues that striving for perfection is not maladaptive and is ...
Becker, Claudia +4 more
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The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory
Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
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Temporal validity as meta-science
The “credibility revolution” has forced quantitative social scientists to confront the limits of our methods for creating general knowledge. As a result, many practitioners aim to generate valid but local knowledge and then synthesize and apply that ...
Kevin Munger
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Du sens du lieu au sentiment d'appartenance
Résumé Malgré qu'on s'intéresse de plus en plus au sens du lieu, il demeure insuffisamment compris dans sa complexité. Le sens d'un lieu varie en effet selon la nature et la portée de nos rapports et interprétations, et donc selon ses fonctions identitaires et nos sentiments à son endroit.
Mario Bédard
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