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Time And Time Again : A Study Of Aristotle And Ibn SīNā'S Temporal Theories, Jon Mcginnis Dec 1999

Time And Time Again : A Study Of Aristotle And Ibn SīNā'S Temporal Theories, Jon Mcginnis

Jon McGinnis

The dissertation examines the temporal theories of Aristotle and the Muslim Aristotelian, Ibn Sînâ (Avicenna). After considering Aristotelian science and sketching Aristotle's theory of physics, the dissertation picks up a series of puzzles concerning the reality of time. The central puzzle is a dilemma, which seemingly shows that the now can neither change nor remain the same. The dilemma is important, since one's solution to it affects the way one envisions time. Aristotle's solution, I argue, is to show how the now remains the same. Thus he adopts a “static” theory of time, i.e., time is a magnitude marked off …

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Piac És Igazságosság? (Market And Justice?), Attila Tanyi Dec 1999

Piac És Igazságosság? (Market And Justice?), Attila Tanyi

Attila Tanyi

The aim of the book is to uncover the relation between market and justice through the critical examination of the work of Friedrich Hayek. The book argues for the following thesis: the institution of free market is not the only candidate social system; substantial, not merely formal distributive justice must become the central virtue of our social institutions. Notwithstanding its achievements and virtues, the Hayekian theory makes a simple mistake by equivocating possible social systems, dividing them into two groups. One is the world of liberty and free market where people follow the general and abstract rules of conduct, accepting …

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Wild Rides, Wild Flowers, 11-20, Scott Abbott, Sam Rushforth Dec 1999

Wild Rides, Wild Flowers, 11-20, Scott Abbott, Sam Rushforth

Scott Abbott

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Review Of Weatherly- The Discourse Of Human Rights In China: Historical And Ideological Perspectives, Stephen C. Angle Dec 1999

Review Of Weatherly- The Discourse Of Human Rights In China: Historical And Ideological Perspectives, Stephen C. Angle

Stephen C. Angle

Many Chinese voices, both official and academic, have claimed that China has its own concept of human rights and thus that China should not be criticized in terms of Western versions of that idea. Robert Weatherley examines the emergence and evolution of the idea of rights in China, and then assesses both the degree to which Chinese rights thinking genuinely differs from its Western counterpart, and the extent to which Western criticism of Chinese human rights practice is justified. 

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