wyszukanych pozycji: 14
The Constitution\'s Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America\'s Basic Charter
ISBN: 9780700634149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies’ man with a wicked sense of humor, a staunch opponent of slavery, and an unabashed elitist. Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as “the most colorful man in North America” at the time of the founding, was a dominant figure at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. In fact, he spoke more often, proposed more motions, and had more motions adopted than any other delegate. He also put the Constitution into its final form, choosing the arrangement and much of the wording of its...
Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies’ man with a wicked sense of humor, a staun...
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303,91 zł |
Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume: The Letter to Strahan and Related Texts
ISBN: 9781498586108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume centers on an annotated edition of a short, controversial work that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume. It also includes several related texts as well as an extensive editor's introduction.
This volume centers on an annotated edition of a short, controversial work that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest...
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625,46 zł |
Poetry and truth
ISBN: 9783110991130 / Angielski / Twarda / 1974 / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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481,48 zł |
The Lord's Question: Thoughts on the Life of Response
ISBN: 9781466309111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "To most questions man wants to have an answer. But to the Lord's question man must be an answer." So writes Dennis Greyson in Chapter One of The Lord's Question . Beginning with the question that Adam heard in the Garden of Eden, "Where art thou?" the book treats ten scriptural questions that everyone must sometime hear and answer. Written in a simple style, The Lord's Question deals with everyday problems and affirms that the truly happy are they "who find joy in hidden acts of goodness, they who serve God in the kitchen or in the field, they who know that small deeds reveal the holy." In...
"To most questions man wants to have an answer. But to the Lord's question man must be an answer." So writes Dennis Greyson in Chapter One of The Lord...
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57,82 zł |
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
ISBN: 9780691192284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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84,84 zł |
Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume: The Letter to Strahan and Related Texts
ISBN: 9781498586122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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204,35 zł |
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
ISBN: 9780691177014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives, sharing what Dennis Rasmussen calls the greatest of all... The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the ... |
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138,08 zł |
The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau
ISBN: 9780271033495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique. In this first book-length comparative study of these leading eighteenth-century thinkers, Dennis Rasmussen highlights Smith's sympathy with Rousseau's concerns and analyzes in depth the ways in which... Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of th... |
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190,56 zł |
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
ISBN: 9780691241418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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80,59 zł |
The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire
ISBN: 9781107045002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the -pragmatic Enlightenment.- He defends this strand of Enlightenment thought against both the Enlightenment's critics and some of the more idealistic Enlightenment figures who tend to have more followers today, such as John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Jeremy Bentham. Professor Rasmussen argues that Hume,...
This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquie...
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364,19 zł |
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
ISBN: 9780691210230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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138,08 zł |
The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire
ISBN: 9781107622999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the "pragmatic Enlightenment." He defends this strand of Enlightenment thought against both the Enlightenment's critics and some of the more idealistic Enlightenment figures who tend to have more followers today, such as John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and Jeremy Bentham. Professor Rasmussen argues that Hume,...
This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquie...
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177,06 zł |
Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction
ISBN: 9789027256300 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals, clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being carried out interactionally. More specifically, it explores how people evaluate each others cognitive competences as they deal with each others understandings, knowings, feelings, doings, hearings and learnings face-to-face. The contributions focus on different evaluation activities in a variety of institutional settings in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Holland and the United...
Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals,...
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524,69 zł |
Adam Smith and Rousseau: Ethics, Politics, Economics
ISBN: 9781474452687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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152,10 zł |