The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals

Author: Anna Feuerstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1108492967

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Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.

Taxation in Utopia
Taxation in Utopia

Author: Donald Morris

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1438479492

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Taxation in Utopia explores utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation. At its core, taxation is an ethical question. It requires people to sacrifice for the benefit of others, whether or not they also benefit themselves. Donald Morris refers to this broader, nonmonetary context as constructive taxation, which includes restrictions on privacy and access to information, constraints on marriage and child-rearing, and conventions restricting the proprietorship of land. Morris examines this in the context of various utopian writings, such as More's Utopia, as well as literary treatments of these issues, such as Bellamy's Looking Backward. This interdisciplinary exploration of utopian taxation provides a novel approach to examining relations between a state's view of the general welfare and the sacrifices this view requires of its citizens.

The Great Reversal: How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet
The Great Reversal: How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet

Author: David Tabachnick

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0802094694

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Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, David Edward Tabachnick contends that this question may not be unique to contemporary society. Through an assessment of the great works of philosophy and politics, Tabachnick explores the largely unrecognized history of technology as an idea. The Great Reversal takes the reader back to Aristotle's ancient warning that humanity should never allow technical thinking to cloud our judgment about what makes for a good life. It then charts the path of how we began to relinquish our deeply rooted intellectual and practical capacities that used to allow us to understand and regulate the role of technologies in our lives. As the rise of technology threatens our very humanity, Tabachnick emphasizes that we still may have time to recover and develop these capacities – but we must first decide how far we want to allow technology to determine our existence and our future.

Civil Government
Civil Government

Author: Robert D. Culver

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-02-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1725224569

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"This book deserves careful attention. In it Culver faces up to a large cluster of important problematics which confront contemporary evangelical thinkers. It is basically a biblicaly study on the meaning of civil government. But the author also moves freely into the areas of historical and systematic theology as well as social and political theory . . . . he surveys in some depth and in an ordered sequence biblical teachings on the task of the state from the Genesis narratives through the successive epochs of biblical revelation to the New Testament epistles. In a sustained way he seeks to draw out some of the implications of these teachings for political life today . . . . In erudition this work may be ranked with the best in evangelical scholarship." -- Prof. Gordon Spykman Calvin College "A carefully worked out, biblically conservative statement on politics and government; this is an excellent presentation . . . . the author lines up his evidence and support with admirable consistency." -- Christian Century "In a lucid, well-organized fashion he traces out the Old and New Testament teaching on civil government and presents it as an aspect of God's creative and providential handiwork." -- Prof. Richard V. Pierard Indiana State University

Political Manhood
Political Manhood

Author: Kevin P. Murphy

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010-08-06

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0231129971

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In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt claimed that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," warning that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community." A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual" type, the mollycoddle became a powerful rhetorical figure, often used to marginalize and stigmatize certain political actors. Murphy's history follows the redefinition of manhood across a variety of classes, especially in the work of late nineteenth-century reformers who trumpeted the virility of the laboring classes. Challenging the characterization of the relationship between political "machines" and social and municipal reformers at the turn of the twentieth century, he revolutionizes our understanding of the gendered and sexual meanings attached to political and ideological positions of the Progressive Era.

The Confucian Cycle
The Confucian Cycle

Author: William A. Taylor

Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1622879635

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2,500 years ago, the Chinese sage, Confucius, observed that all governments follow a cycle: from unity, through prosperity to stagnation, then to collapse and anarchy. He taught that when government officials sought personal power or wealth instead of taking care of the people, society lost the “Mandate of Heaven” and fell apart. By “Mandate of Heaven,” Confucius meant that God Himself had directed how society should work. Chinese history shows 15 or 20 collapses when government lost virtue and the country broke apart in civil war, but whenever the Chinese followed Confucius’ rules, Chinese society worked well. From his day to ours, civilizations all over the world have followed the same cycle Confucius observed. Today’s United States is well into the “stagnation” phase and many observers predict a collapse. But America has an advantage Confucius never imagined. Unlike the Chinese, America’s voters have the power to replace their rulers and reform their government without armed revolution. The Taylors’ wide-ranging tour through history, culture, and modern news sheds new light on how the past both predicts the future and can be used to alter it for the better. Keywords – China, America, Sage, Confucius, Government, Trade, Exports, Imports, Money, Economy, History, Culture, Rulers, Voting, War, Policy

The Good Shepherd's Lie
The Good Shepherd's Lie

Author: Ged Austin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1326430599

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Ged Austin's book, 'The Good Shepherd's Lie', has truly shocked the literary world in much the same way that George Orwell's animal farm and epic 1984 books once shocked the public of yesterday. Once you read this masterpiece, you will never see the world in the same way again. Imagine if your whole life had been a lie, and you only found out the moment you die. If nothing else you will love this satirical plot, and its magical ending is one that won't be forgot.