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UNIORUON00297687 |
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Authenticity and cultural identity performing arts in southeast Asia / edited by Yoshitaka Terada |
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Osaka, : National Museum of Ethnology, 2007 |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910965468903321 |
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Staubach Suzanne |
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Clay : The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element / / Suzanne Staubach |
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University Press of New England |
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Lebanon, NH : , 2013 |
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[First University Press of New England edition.] |
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1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 COOKING POTS AND STORAGE JARS Porridge, Ale, and International Commerce; 2 HEARTH AND HOME Ovens, Heat, and the Invention of Baking; 3 THE FIRST MACHINE AND THE DEVELOPMENT |
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OF AN INDUSTRY; 4 SET THE TABLE From a Simple Bowl to a 2,200-Piece Dinner Set; 5 A WORD OR TWO The Invention of Writing and Books; 6 THE MOST POPULAR BUILDING MATERIAL Cities, Walls, and Floors of Mud; 7 SANITATION A Nice Hot Bath, a Drink of Water, and Don't Forget to Flush; 8 FARMING MADE EASY Irrigation, Propagation, and Incubation |
9 ELECTRICITY, TRANSPORTATION, AND ROCKET SCIENCE10 TO YOUR HEALTH!; 11 ART, TOYS, GODS, GODDESSES, AND FERTILITY; 12 A FITTING DEATH Urns, Gravestones, Companions, and Thieves; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A: HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN PINCH POT; APPENDIX B: MUSEUMS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CREDITS; INDEX |
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How a humble substance helped create a modern world |
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UNINA9910956993503321 |
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Rosen F |
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Classical utilitarianism from Hume to Mill / / Frederick Rosen |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
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1-134-59909-9 |
1-134-59910-2 |
1-280-11278-6 |
0-203-98735-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (299 p.) |
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Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory ; ; 2 |
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Utilitarianism |
Justice (Philosophy) |
Liberty |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-279) and index. |
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Cover; CLASSICAL UTILITARIANISM FROM HUME TO MILL; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; The aims of the book; Some notes for moral philosophers; A briefer note for political and legal theorists; PART I; 2 Utility and justice: Epicurus and the Epicurean tradition; Epicurus and ancient |
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Epicureanism; Gassendi and modern Epicureanism; Gassendi's influence; Epicureanism in Grotius and Pufendorf; 3 Reading Hume backwards: Utility as the foundation of morals; Utility in the Enquiry and Treatise; The foundational role of utility |
Benevolence, justice and utilityUtility and morality; Enquiry versus Treatise; Hume and Bentham; 4 The idea of utility in Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Utility and justice; Smith and Hume on justice; Smith on utility: illusion and reality; Smith, Hume, and philosophical systems; Smith and Bentham; 5 Helvétius, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Bentham's idea of utility; Hume, Smith, and Helvétius; The role of the legislator; Utility and virtue; Helvétius and Bentham; De l'homme; Conclusion; 6 The idea of utility in Smith's Wealth of Nations; The 'invisible hand' |
Unintended consequences and the division of labourLiberty; Labour, liberty, and the progressive state; 7 Bentham and Smith on liberty; The opposition to Bentham; Defence of Usury and Bentham's other writings; Bentham's critique of Smith; Bentham's title; 8 William Paley as a utilitarian; Utility; Liberty; Conclusion; 9 Liberty, utility, and the reform of the criminal law; Liberty and the criminal law; Crime and punishment in Beccaria; Bentham's theory of proportion; The debate over the death penalty; Transportation and imprisonment; Enlightenment and reform; 10 J.S. Mill's hedonism |
Mill and CarlyleThe Epicurean tradition; Quantity and quality; Socrates dissatisfied; 11 J.S. Mill on justice and liberty; Justice and utility; Justice and liberty; Liberty and the fragility of truth; PART II; 12 Punishment of the innocent; The idealist background; The post-utilitarian paradigm; The rejection of utilitarianism; 13 Individual sacrifice and the greatest happiness; Bentham's ultimate principle; The status of pleasure and pain; Secondary principles and rights; Maximize and minimize; Equality and rights in Bentham and Mill; 14 The tyranny of the majority |
Majorities and minorities in practiceInterests, security, and equality; Popular sovereignty and majority rule; Democratic despotism; Tyranny of the majority; 15 Negative liberty; Negative liberty in Hobbes and Bentham; Bentham and Berlin on civil and political liberty; Liberty and democracy; Negative liberty worth fighting for; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from Hume to J.S. Mill. Discussion of utility in writers such as Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham is included. |
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