... Tocqueville fears for the future of liberty. The source of the
threat, however, is the same: it is the modern society born of the Revo-
lution. And the idea of a hidden pact, of the price to be paid ... of the century: the fate of men is decided by
their blood (or by the form and volume of their skull, or their size—or
any other physical characteristic),...
... was
open
for
philosophers
either
to
attain
the
rigor
of
the
mathematician
or
the
mathematical
physi-
cist,
or
to
explain
the
appearance
of
rigor
in
these fields,
rather
than
to
help
people
attain
peace
of
mind.
Science,
rather
than
living, ... as
in
the
intellectual avant-garde,
or
as
protecting
men
against the forces of superstition.
1
Further,
in
the course of
the...
... only
Europeans but practically the whole world conceived of itself, of nature,
of religion, of human history, of the nature of knowledge, of politics, and
of the structure of the human mind in general. ... of the nature of the categories. It rejects the view of the categories
as concepts prior to experience that we then “apply” to experience by acts of...
... danger,” the president said the issue ranked
“at the top of the American agenda and should be at the top of
the world’s agenda.”
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In 1999 U.S. Secretary of Defense William
Cohen wrote an op-ed in the ... information sharing within the FBI and
between the bureau and the rest of the Intelligence Community.
The Gilmore Commission found many of the same probl...
... world of inde-
pendent political communities bound together by the rule of law rather
than by the sovereignty of a single emperor. The Chinese can therefore
be said to have been the pioneers of the ... feature of war is that it is rule-governed.
There are a number of senses in which this is so. One of these, noted
above, was the requirement of subordination of in...
... Thus, the argument of this book may be
a simple statement, but demonstrating the argument, which is the
task at hand, is complex and full of challenges.
Scope of Project
The central themes of ... by revulsion with the corruptions of a contemporary society.
—Michael Kazin, The Politics of Devotion” in The Nation, April 6, 1998
The more things change the more t...
... responded
to the criticism and mocking dismissal of his plan with a joke of his own: the
Lincecum Law “can not progress as rapidly as it should without the aid of the
press But the Press must have the ... support themselves as well as for
the maintenance and therapy of state wards. Between 1896 and 1918, the Ameri-
can Association for the Study of the Feeble-...
... such a pale view of the natural universe, of the human race,
of the people close to them, and of themselves (because we must
assume that their theory knows no exceptions)? Do they not see that, ... generate
rather quickly a reason for justice and fairness was very gratifying,
because it was on the other side of the fence of that awful tradition
in biology of the...
... organizations, condemned Taliban
violations of hum an rights. Despite their con trol of most of Af-
ghan istan , by th e fall of 1998, neither the United Nations nor m ost
of the global commun ity acknowledged ... ven-
eration of the struggles (jihads) of the early com m un ity with the
Meccan Arabs and with in their jahiliyyah culture of un belief, wh ile
Sh ii Isla...
... at the University of
Aarhus in May 2008 provided the occasion for further testing and revi-
sion of these ideas.
Special thanks are due to Fred Appel, my editor at Princeton University
Press, ... sacred, the other
profane, is the hallmark of religious thought. (Durkheim 2001, 36).” This is not in fact a
denition of “religion,” but rather a denition of “religi...