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Book Unjust Deeds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey D. Gonda
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2015-08-26
  • ISBN : 1469625466
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Unjust Deeds written by Jeffrey D. Gonda and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists and lawyers at the NAACP fought through the nation's courts to end the enforcement of these discriminatory contracts. Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign, culminating in a landmark Supreme Court victory in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). Restoring this story to its proper place in the history of the black freedom struggle, Jeffrey D. Gonda's groundbreaking study provides a critical vantage point to the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century and offers a new understanding of the evolving legal fight against Jim Crow in neighborhoods and courtrooms across America.

Book The Philocalia of Origen

Download or read book The Philocalia of Origen written by Origen and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Just and Unjust Peace

Download or read book Just and Unjust Peace written by Daniel Philpott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award in Missions / Global Affairs Winner of the Aldersgate Prize Honorable Mention Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association International Ethics Section Book Award In the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and peace restored? Is it possible to find a universal standard that will work for people of diverse and often conflicting religious, cultural, and philosophical backgrounds? In Just and Unjust Peace, Daniel Philpott offers an innovative and hopeful response to these questions. He challenges the approach to peace-building that dominates the United Nations, western governments, and the human rights community. While he shares their commitments to human rights and democracy, Philpott argues that these values alone cannot redress the wounds caused by war, genocide, and dictatorship. Both justice and the effective restoration of political order call for a more holistic, restorative approach. Philpott answers that call by proposing a form of political reconciliation that is deeply rooted in three religious traditions--Christianity, Islam, and Judaism--as well as the restorative justice movement. These traditions offer the fullest expressions of the core concepts of justice, mercy, and peace. By adapting these ancient concepts to modern constitutional democracy and international norms, Philpott crafts an ethic that has widespread appeal and offers real hope for the restoration of justice in fractured communities. From the roots of these traditions, Philpott develops six practices--building just institutions and relations between states, acknowledgment, reparations, restorative punishment, apology and, most important, forgiveness--which he then applies to real cases, identifying how each practice redresses a unique set of wounds. Focusing on places as varied as Bosnia, Iraq, South Africa, Germany, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, Chile and many others--and drawing upon the actual experience of victims and perpetrators--Just and Unjust Peace offers a fresh approach to the age-old problem of restoring justice in the aftermath of widespread injustice.

Book Plato

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Plato written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Ancient Greek Literature

Download or read book A History of Ancient Greek Literature written by Harold North Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Selection of Passages from Plato for English Readers

Download or read book A Selection of Passages from Plato for English Readers written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Republic

Download or read book The Republic written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Universal Classics Library

Download or read book Universal Classics Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek Ethical Thought from Homer to the Stoics

Download or read book Greek Ethical Thought from Homer to the Stoics written by Hilda Diana Oakeley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Polyhistor

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  • Author : Keimpe Algra
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2016-06-21
  • ISBN : 9004320970
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Polyhistor written by Keimpe Algra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past three decades Jaap Mansfeld, Professor of Ancient Philosophy in Utrecht, has built up a formidable reputation as a leading scholar in his field. His work has concentrated on the Presocratics, Hellenistic Philosophy, the sources of our knowledge of ancient philosophy (esp. doxography) and the history of scholarship. In honour of his sixtieth birthday, colleagues and friends have contributed a collection of articles which represent the state of the art in the study of the history of ancient philosophy and frequently concentrate on subjects in which the honorand has made important discoveries. The 22 contributors include M. Baltes, J. Barnes, J. Brunschwig, W.M. Calder III, J. Dillon, P.L. Donini, J. Glucker, A.A. Long, L.M. de Rijk, D. Sedley, P. Schrijvers, and M. Vegetti. The volume concludes with a complete bibliography of Jaap Mansfeld's scholarly work so far.

Book The Republic of Plato

Download or read book The Republic of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law of Nations

Download or read book The Law of Nations written by Emer de Vattel and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Law of Nations  Or  Principles of the Law of Nature

Download or read book The Law of Nations Or Principles of the Law of Nature written by Emer de Vattel and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Plato

Download or read book The Works of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: