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Book First Principles and Perfection

Download or read book First Principles and Perfection written by James Sanford Lamar and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Principles and Perfection

Download or read book First Principles and Perfection written by James Sanford Lamar and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1ST PRINCIPLES   PERFECTION

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  • Author : J. S. (James Sanford) 1829-1908 Lamar
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-26
  • ISBN : 9781362357896
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book 1ST PRINCIPLES PERFECTION written by J. S. (James Sanford) 1829-1908 Lamar and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book First Principles and Perfection

Download or read book First Principles and Perfection written by James S. Lamar and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Principles

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  • Author : Thomas E. Ricks
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-11-10
  • ISBN : 0062997475
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book First Principles written by Thomas E. Ricks and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Editors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new. Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in our country." —James Mattis, General, U.S. Marines (ret.) & 26th Secretary of Defense The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation. On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders’ thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world. The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew. First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders.

Book 1ST PRINCIPLES   PERFECTION

Download or read book 1ST PRINCIPLES PERFECTION written by James S. Lamar and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Case against Perfection

Download or read book The Case against Perfection written by Michael J Sandel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature—to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature? The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda. In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America’s preeminent moral and political thinkers.

Book First Principles of Philosophy

Download or read book First Principles of Philosophy written by Manly Palmer Hall and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Principles and Perfection

Download or read book First Principles and Perfection written by J. S. Lamar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Principles and Perfection: Or the Birth and Growth of a Christian Chapter. I. Introductory, II. Authority, III. The Starting Place, IV. The Gospel, V. Power from on High, VI. Bearing Witness, VII. The Acceptance, VIII. The Gospel Believed, IX. Conviction of Sin, X. Repentance, The Confession of Faith XII. Baptism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book An Essay on the First Principles of Government

Download or read book An Essay on the First Principles of Government written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Principles of Christianity  Being the Substance of a Discourse Delivered in the North of Ireland in the Year 1752     The Second Edition

Download or read book The First Principles of Christianity Being the Substance of a Discourse Delivered in the North of Ireland in the Year 1752 The Second Edition written by John CENNICK and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On First Principles

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  • Author : Origen
  • Publisher : Ave Maria Press
  • Release : 2013-12-09
  • ISBN : 0870612808
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book On First Principles written by Origen and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origen’s On First Principles is a foundational work in the development of Christian thought and doctrine: it is the first attempt in history at a systematic Christian theology. For over a decade it has been out of print with only expensive used copies available; now it is available at an affordable price and in a more accessible format. On First Principles is the most important surviving text written by third-century Church father, Origen. Origen wrote in a time when fundamental doctrines had not yet been fully articulated by the Church, and contributed to the very formation of Christianity. Readers see Origen grappling with the mysteries of salvation and brainstorming how they can be understood. This edition presents G. W. Butterworth’s trusted translation in a new, more readable format, retains the introduction by Henri de Lubac, and includes a new foreword by John C. Cavadini. As St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Doctor of the Church, wrote: “Origen is the stone on which all of us were sharpened.”

Book Government Upon First Principles

Download or read book Government Upon First Principles written by John Grossmith and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First Principles

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  • Author : Howard Burton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book First Principles written by Howard Burton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Burton was a freshly-minted physics PhD from the University of Waterloo when a random job query resulted in a strange-albeit fateful-meeting with Research-in-Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis. Mike had a crazy idea: he wanted to fund a state-of-the-art science research facility and bring in the most innovative scientists from around the world. Its mission? To study and probe the most complex, intriguing and fundamental problems of science. Mike was ready to commit $100 million of his own money to get it started. But that wasn't his only crazy idea. He wanted Howard to run it. First Principles is part-biography and part lively rumination on the world-and the world of science in particular-by the engaging physicist and former director of the prestigious Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. Since its founding in 1999, the Institute has received more than $125 million in government grants, not including the eye-popping sum of $150 million that Mike Lazaridis has donated from his own personal fortune.

Book Perfect Form

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  • Author : Don S. Lemons
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1997-03-23
  • ISBN : 9780691026633
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Perfect Form written by Don S. Lemons and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All natural curves and shapes, and many artificial ones, manifest such "perfect form" because physical principles can be expressed as a statement requiring some important physical quantity to be mathematically maximum, minimum, or stationary.

Book The Great Mental Models  Volume 1

Download or read book The Great Mental Models Volume 1 written by Shane Parrish and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essential thinking tools you’ve been missing with The Great Mental Models series by Shane Parrish, New York Times bestselling author and the mind behind the acclaimed Farnam Street blog and “The Knowledge Project” podcast. This first book in the series is your guide to learning the crucial thinking tools nobody ever taught you. Time and time again, great thinkers such as Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett have credited their success to mental models–representations of how something works that can scale onto other fields. Mastering a small number of mental models enables you to rapidly grasp new information, identify patterns others miss, and avoid the common mistakes that hold people back. The Great Mental Models: Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts shows you how making a few tiny changes in the way you think can deliver big results. Drawing on examples from history, business, art, and science, this book details nine of the most versatile, all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making and productivity. This book will teach you how to: Avoid blind spots when looking at problems. Find non-obvious solutions. Anticipate and achieve desired outcomes. Play to your strengths, avoid your weaknesses, … and more. The Great Mental Models series demystifies once elusive concepts and illuminates rich knowledge that traditional education overlooks. This series is the most comprehensive and accessible guide on using mental models to better understand our world, solve problems, and gain an advantage.