Freedom to Live

Freedom to Live

Author: Robert S. Hartman

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1625645007

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Freedom to Live: The Robert Hartman Story: What am I here for in the world? Why do I work for this organization? What can this organization do to help me fulfill my meaning in the world? How can I help this organization help me fulfill my meaning in the world? In the course of answering these questions we are taken on a personal exploration of the systemic, extrinsic, and intrinsic dimensions of value as they apply to our individual lives. The purpose of this exercise is to help each of us in our search for meaning and in our endeavor to prioritize our values as we make decisions. Dr. Hartman also explores our spiritual nature by applying his thinking to the intrinsic realm in religion. Robert Hartman's vision was to give us the means to recognize and fulfill "the good" within each of us, thereby enriching our lives. By applying these principles on a broader scale, we may also enrich our world and make it a place of more "goodness" and peace. When the light of formal axiology is cast upon our world, the elements involved in making particular decisions are revealed with a kind of value clarity previously unknown. This Second Edition of Freedom to Live: The Robert Hartman Story includes many minor editorial improvements, a new and much expanded table of Contents, a much more detailed Index, and new photographs. Many thanks to Stacey McNutt for the new photos she contributed to this Second Edition--Numbers 1, 5, 6, and 11. Many thanks also to Rodopi, Amsterdam - New York, its original publisher, for returning the rights to this book to the Robert S. Hartman Institute.


Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

Author: Akeel Bilgrami

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0231538790

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In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed. As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy."


Logic - The Theory of Inquiry

Logic - The Theory of Inquiry

Author: John Dewey

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2018-01-04

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1447496728

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This antiquarian volume contains a detailed treatise on logic and the theory of 'Inquiry', as a development of ideas regarding the nature of logical theory that were first presented in Studies in Logical Theory. The present work is marked in particular by application of the earlier ideas to interpretation of the forms and formal relations that constitute the standard material of the logical tradition. Inquiry is one of the most essential skills in the world of business and management; as well as being of great utility to the student of philosophy, this book can help clarify the process of inquiry and develop skills for inquiry in the context of decision making, and may therefore be of considerable service to a range of different readers. The chapters of this volume include: - The Matrix of Inquiry - The Problem of Logical Subject-Matter - Common Sense and Scientific Inquiry - The Needed Reform of Logic - Immediate Knowledge: Understanding and Inference This vintage book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.


The William O. Douglas Inquiry Into The State Of Individual Freedom

The William O. Douglas Inquiry Into The State Of Individual Freedom

Author: Harry S Ashmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 100061252X

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This volume, an inventory of aspects of individual freedom in a rapidly changing society bound by the Bills of Rights, is the result of a project of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to monitor concerns of individual freedom that marked the career of Justice William O. Douglas.