1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791446103321

Autore

Gibbard Allan

Titolo

Thinking how to live [[electronic resource] /] / Allan Gibbard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-674-26375-8

0-674-03758-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

170/.42

Soggetti

Expressivism (Ethics)

Normativity (Ethics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I Preliminaries -- 1 Introduction: A Possibility Proof -- 2 Intuitionism as Template: Emending Moore -- II The Thing to Do -- 3 Planning and Ruling Out: The Frege-Geach Problem -- 4 Judgment, Disagreement, Negation -- 5 Supervenience and Constitution -- 6 Character and Import -- III Normative Concepts -- 7 Ordinary Oughts: Meaning and Motivation -- 8 Normative Kinds: Patterns of Engagement -- 9 What to Say about the Thing to Do: The Expressivistic Turn and What It Gains Us -- IV Knowing What to Do -- 10 Explaining with Plans -- 11 Knowing What to Do -- 12 Ideal Response Concepts -- 13 Deep Vindication and Practical Confidence -- 14 Impasse and Dissent -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gibbard considers how our actions and our realities emerge from the thousands of questions and decisions we form for ourselves. This book investigates the very nature of the questions we ask ourselves when we ask how we should live.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966411803321

Autore

Zimmerman Jonathan <1961->

Titolo

Small wonder : the little red schoolhouse in history and memory / / Jonathan Zimmerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35181-8

9786612351815

0-300-15627-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Icons of America

Disciplina

371.6/20973

Soggetti

School buildings - Social aspects - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One History -- Part two Memory -- Conclusion Dear Old Golden Rule Days? -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The little red schoolhouse has all but disappeared in the United States, but its importance in national memory remains unshakable. This engaging book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered-and just as often misremembered-this powerful national icon. Drawing on a rich range of sources, from firsthand accounts to poems, songs, and films, Jonathan Zimmerman traces the evolution of attitudes toward the little red schoolhouse from the late nineteenth century to the present day. At times it was celebrated as a symbol of lost rural virtues or America's democratic heritage; at others it was denounced as the epitome of inefficiency and substandard academics. And because the one-room school has been a useful emblem for liberal, conservative, and other agendas, the truth of its history has sometimes been stretched. Yet the idyllic image of the schoolhouse still unites Americans. For more than a century, it has embodied the nation's best aspirations and-especially-its continuing faith in education itself.