1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703640903321

Titolo

Nuclear safety : arrangement between the United States of America and Belgium, signed at Vienna, September 24, 2014, with addenda and annex

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Department of State, , [2014?]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (17 unnumbered pages)

Collana

Treaties and other international acts series ; ; 14-924

Soggetti

Nuclear facilities - United States - Safety measures

Nuclear facilities - Belgium - Safety measures

Communication of technical information - United States

Communication of technical information - Belgium

Nuclear facilities - Safety measures - International cooperation

Treaties.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on April 1, 2015).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910770268403321

Autore

Sommer Andreas Urs

Titolo

Values : Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist / / by Andreas Urs Sommer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031421594

3031421590

9783031421587

3031421582

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 pages)

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value? -- 2. Even More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There? -- 3. Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value? -- 4. The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To? -- 5. At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)? -- 6. Excursus I: Values and Human Rights -- 7. The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned? -- 8. Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do? -- 9. An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values? -- 10. Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera -- 11. Against Prescriptions. Why Values?.

Sommario/riassunto

In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.