Download or read book Science Liberty And Peace written by Aldous Leonard Huxley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Science, Liberty And Peace" by Aldous Leonard Huxley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Science of Liberty written by Timothy Ferris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his most powerful book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris shows how science was integral to the American Revolution but misinterpreted in the French Revolution; reflects on the history of liberalism, stressing its widely underestimated and mutually beneficial relationship with science; and surveys the forces that have opposed science and liberalism—from communism and fascism to postmodernism and Islamic fundamentalism. A sweeping intellectual history, The Science of Liberty is a stunningly original work that transcends the antiquated concepts of left and right.
Download or read book Science and Liberty Patient Confidence in the Ultimate Justice of the People written by John L. Cordani Jr. and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most debated topics in law and politics is the role that science should play in setting policy. What does it mean to demand that politicians and the People themselves “follow the science” if science deals with questions of fact, not matters of moral or political values? This long-standing controversy has roots ranging from Plato’s philosopher-kings to Enlightenment skepticism to modern progressivism and the rise of the administrative state. ‘Science and Liberty’ explores the idea that a constitutional republic provides a fitting role for science while preserving the People’s liberty and right to self-government. It examines this topic from five perspectives: American, Historical, Philosophical, Scientific, and Moral. Providing direct access to primary historical sources, ‘Science and Liberty’ contends that America’s founders designed a constitution that was predicated on the Enlightenment theory that liberty precedes government and that presupposed the engagement of the People and their representatives at all levels of free debate. Early twentieth-century progressivism was openly hostile to these founding principles in its desire for efficient rule by scientific administrators. However, it is impossible to philosophically ground political and moral values in the findings of science, despite what modern theorists claim. Ultimately, the injunction to “follow the science” demands to substitute the values of “experts” for the values of the People themselves. By illustrating numerous examples from the hard and social sciences, ranging from physics to Biblical criticism to climate science, this book also explains that the People have a role to play in reasonably engaging with and critiquing modern science. ‘Science and Liberty’ will appeal to those interested in a variety of subjects, including law, politics, philosophy, and intellectual history, as well as scientific criticism, particularly from an American perspective. It is written to be accessible for all ages while also engaging with complex issues and sources relevant for those with advanced degrees.
Download or read book Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge written by Warren Schmaus and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosopher Charles Renouvier played an influential role in reviving philosophy in France after it was proscribed during the Second Empire. Drawn to the ideals of the French Revolution, Renouvier came to recognize that the free will and civil liberties he supported were essential to the pursuit of science, contrary to the ideologies of positivists and socialists who would restrict liberty in the name of science. He struggled against monarchy and religious authority in the period up through 1848 and defended a liberal, secular form of political organization at a critical turning point in French history, the beginning of the Third Republic. As Warren Schmaus argues, Renouvier’s work provides an example of one way in which philosophy of science can succeed in bringing about change in political life—by critiquing political ideologies that falsely claim absolute certainty on religious, scientific, or any other grounds. Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge explores the understudied relationship between Renouvier’s philosophy of science and his political philosophy, shedding new light on the significance of his thought for the history of philosophy.
Download or read book Science Liberty and Peace written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty Science and Wealth written by Ralph L. Bayrer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ralph Bayrer’s new book, Free People-Free Markets: Their Evolutionary Origins, is a timely reaffirmation of freedom’s central role in the creation of American prosperity and the most celebrated advances of western civilization. Relying on the thorough scholarship and clarity of argument, Bayrer makes the compelling case that mankind’s progress in the last millennium rests on a narrow foundation of freedom, a lesson people forger at their peril.” “This book is a compelling, new perspective on economic and political history, which can be expected to make a contribution to both academic and popular understanding. But its most important contribution will be in helping guide current governmental decisions away from avoidable errors.” Phillip Scribner, Associate Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, American University
Download or read book Liberty and Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom written by Richard E. McDorman and published by Richard E. McDorman. This book was released on 2010-01-09 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical essay examines the effects of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), and its progeny on the criminal justice system at both the federal and state levels. While Daubert addressed the admissibility of scientific evidence in a civil action, the role of scientific evidence is most crucial in the criminal courts, where the testimony of an ‘expert’ in some or another scientific field frequently is the difference between conviction and acquittal. In Daubert, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the more liberal standards of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which are applied to both civil and criminal proceedings, supersede the more restrictive Frye rule, a common law standard adopted by the federal courts in 1923. In Daubert, the Supreme Court held that the ‘general acceptance’ condition of Frye is not a necessary precondition to the admissibility of scientific evidence under the Federal Rules. Rather, the Supreme Court proclaimed that the Federal Rules of Evidence assign to the trial judge the ‘gate-keeping’ function of determining whether an expert’s testimony rests on a reliable foundation and is relevant to the proceedings at hand. If so, then the scientific evidence is admissible and may be considered by the finder of fact, usually the jury. At issue in Daubert was the definition of ‘scientific knowledge’ within the meaning of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the possession of which is a prerequisite for the testimony of an ‘expert.’ Since its decision in Daubert, the Supreme Court has been criticized for its ‘misguided’ attempt to demarcate science from non-science, and the clarity of the philosophy of science expressed in Daubert has been called into question. Moreover, in 1999, the Supreme Court extended the scope of Daubert beyond scientific knowledge to include all ‘expert’ testimony based on ‘technical’ and ‘other specialized knowledge.’ As the Federal Rules of Evidence apply only to proceedings in the federal courts, Daubert is not binding on the state courts in most instances. Nevertheless, a number of states have followed the Supreme Court’s lead and abandoned the Frye rule in favor of the standards set forth in Daubert. In fact, over 1000 state Daubert cases have been reported since the original Daubert decision. This essay appraises the effects of Daubert and its progeny on cases decided in the criminal courts and the attendant implications for the future of the criminal justice system. In so doing, the author hopes to determine whether the adoption of the new Daubert standards advances the administration of justice by anticipating the continuing efflorescence of scientific and technical skill in our society and the need for judicial flexibility in justly integrating the fruits thereof into the courtroom, or instead empowers the judge to wrap a pseudoscientific noose around the defendant’s neck, the conclusion toward which the author is more inclined.
Download or read book A Truer Liberty Routledge Revivals written by Laurence A. Blum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simone Weil — philosopher, trade union militant, factory worker — developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves an alternative both to liberalism and to Marxism. In A Truer Liberty, originally published in 1989, Blum and Seidler show how Simone Weil’s philosophy sought to place political action on a firmly moral basis. The dignity of the manual worker became the standard for political institutions and movements. Weil criticized Marxism for its confidence in progress and revolution and its attendant illusory belief that history is on the side of the proletariat. Blum and Seidler relate Weil’s work to influential trends in political philosophy today, from analytic Marxism to central traditions within liberal thought. The authors stress the importance of Weil’s work for understanding liberation theology, Catholic radicalism, and, more generally, social movements against oppression which are closely tied to religion and spirituality.
Download or read book Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason written by F.A Hayek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The studies of which this book is the result have from the beginning been guided by and in the end confirmed the somewhat old-fashioned conviction of the author that it is human ideas which govern the development of human affairs," Hayek wrote in his notes in 1940. Indeed, Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason remains Hayek’s greatest unfinished work and is here presented for the first time under the expert editorship of Bruce Caldwell. In the book, Hayek argues that the abuse and decline of reason was caused by hubris, by man’s pride in his ability to reason, which in Hayek’s mind had been heightened by the rapid advance and multitudinous successes of the natural sciences, and the attempt to apply natural science methods in the social sciences.
Download or read book Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law written by John William Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science Liberty and Peace By Aldous Huxley written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Freedom of Science written by Josef Donat and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Freedom of Science" by Josef Donat is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between science and society. Donat delves into the importance of scientific inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge, emphasizing the role of science in promoting progress and freedom. This ebook serves as a passionate defense of scientific inquiry and its contribution to human advancement. Donat's arguments challenge readers to reconsider the value of scientific freedom and its impact on society. Thoughtful and insightful, this ebook is a must-read for those interested in the intersection of science and society.
Download or read book Human Nature and the Limits of Science written by John Dupré and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. He claims it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do.
Download or read book Law Liberty written by R. J. Rushdoony and published by Chalcedon Foundation. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise volume, R. J. Rushdoony expounds on the central themes of the application of Biblical law to every area of life. This book is a great starting point to understanding Rushdoony's larger expositions on Biblical law.
Download or read book Science Religion in Contemporary Philosophy written by Emile Boutroux and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adam Smith s System of Liberty Wealth and Virtue written by Athol Fitzgibbons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the influence that Adam Smith's philosophy had on his economics, drawing on the neglected parts of Smith's writings to show that the political and economic theories built logically on his morals. It analyses the significance of his stoic beliefs, his notions of art and music, astronomy, philosophy and war, and shows that Smith's invisible hand was part of a 'system' that was meant to replace medieval Christianity with ethic of virtue in this world rather than the next. Smith was motivated primarily by a political ideal, a moral version of liberalism. He rejected the political philosophy of the Greeks and Christians as authoritarian and unworldly, but contrary to what many economists believe, he also rejected the amoral liberalism that was being advocated by his countryman and friend David Hume. Far from being myopic about self-love, Smith arrived at his theories of free trade, economic growth, and alienation via his reinterpretation of Stoic virtue. Of interest to economists, philosophers, political theorists, sociologists and lawyers concerned with jurisprudence, this book is clearly written, and its innovations reveal the hitherto hidden unity in Smith's overarching system of morals, politics and economics.
Download or read book Economic Justice and Liberty written by Huei-chun Su and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book reopens the debate on theories of justice between utilitarian theorists and scholars from other camps. John Rawls’ 1971 publication of A Theory of Justice put forward a devastating challenge to the long-established dominance of utilitarianism within political and moral philosophy, and until now no satisfactory and comprehensive utilitarian reply has yet been put forward. By expounding John Stuart Mill’s system of knowledge and by reconstructing his utilitarianism, Huei-chun Su offers a fresh and comprehensive analysis of Mill’s moral philosophy and sheds new light on the reconciliation of Mill’s idea of justice with both his utilitarianism and his theory of liberty. More than a study of Mill, this book uses a systematic framework to draw a comparison between Mill’s theory of justice and those of John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Friedrich von Hayek. It hence establishes common ground between different schools of thought in the fields of economics and philosophy, and enables more effective dialogue. This book will be indispensable both to those interested in Mill’s moral philosophy and to those seeking a solid theoretical basis for analyzing the idea of justice, as well as to anyone with an interest with the history of economics, economic philosophy and the history of economic thought more generally.
