1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOB021023

Autore

*International *fiscal *association

Titolo

Visions of the tax systems of the 21. century : proceedings of a symposium held in Geneva in 1996 during the 50. congress of the International Fiscal Association

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague [etc.], : Kluwer Law International, 1997

ISBN

904114747

Descrizione fisica

IX, 90 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

IFA Congress Seminar Series ; 21d

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961028703321

Autore

Himmelfarb Gertrude

Titolo

The moral imagination : from Adam Smith to Lionel Trilling / / Gertrude Himmelfarb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012

ISBN

979-82-16-23277-3

1-283-63938-6

1-4422-1830-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Political science - Philosophy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE Moral Imagination; Contents; Introduction; Adam Smith: Political Economist cum Moral Philosopher; Edmund Burke: Apologist for



Judaism?; George Eliot: The Wisdom of Dorothea; Jane Austen: The Education of Emma; Charles Dickens: "A Low Writer"; Benjamin Disraeli: The Tory Imagination; John Stuart Mill: The Other Mill; Walter Bagehot: "A Divided Nature"; Lord Acton: The Historian as Moralist; Alfred Marshall: "The Economics of Chivalry"; John Buchan: An Untimely Appreciation; The Knoxes: A God-Haunted Family; Michael Oakeshott: The Conservative Disposition

Winston Churchill: "Quite Simply, a Great Man"Lionel Trilling: The Moral Imagination; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Moral Imagination describes how some of the most provocative thinkers of modern times, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different genres, shared a moral passion that permeated their work. The second edition includes a revised introduction and three new essays on Adam Smith, Lord Acton, and Alfred Marshall.