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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789374403321

Autore

Lachs John

Titolo

Freedom and limits / / John Lachs ; edited by Patrick Shade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5675-8

0-8232-5793-2

0-8232-6096-8

0-8232-5676-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Collana

American Philosophy

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Philosophy

Life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-494) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1 The Impotent Mind -- 2 Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind -- 3 Fichte’s Idealism -- 4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts -- 5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought -- 6 Primitive Naturalism -- 7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill -- 8 Questions of Life and Death -- 9 On Selling Organs -- 10 A Community of Psyches -- 11 The Cost of Community -- 12 Public Benefit, Private Cost -- 13 Leaving Others Alone -- 14 Relativism and Its Benefits -- 15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death -- 16 Human Natures -- 17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons -- 18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People -- 19 Philosophical Pluralism -- 20 To Have and to Be -- 21 Drugs: The Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences -- 22 Loving Life -- 23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race -- 24 Improving Life -- 25 Stoic Pragmatism -- 26 Pragmatism and Death -- 27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life -- 28 Both Better Off and Better -- 29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) -- 30 Learning About Possibility -- 31 Moral Holidays -- 32 Good Enough -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. A contribution to the American tradition of philosophy, it focuses attention on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life, where the search for perfection and the incessant drive to meet obligations make it difficult to attain satisfaction. The book argues that uniformity is unproductive: Human natures are varied and changeable, making the effort to impose a unitary good on everyone futile. Moreover, we don’t need to strive for more than what is good enough: Finite achievements should be adequate to satisfy finite people. The ultimate aim of the book is to reclaim the role of philosophy as a guide to life. In doing so, it presents discussions of such important philosophers as Fichte, Hegel, Peirce, Dewey, James, and, above all, Santayana.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910566479803321

Autore

Nimse Satish Balasaheb

Titolo

Biomarkers Used for the Diagnosis of Diseases

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 p.)

Soggetti

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The detection and quantification of with high precision nucleic acid biomarkers and protein biomarkers in resource-limited settings is key to the early diagnosis of diseases and for monitoring the effects of treatments. As there is an enormous demand for high-quality biomarker detection platforms that are robust and highly applicable in resource-limited settings, this book is devoted to exploring methods for detection and quantification of biomarkers, focusing on the recent advances in this field.