1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00297687

Titolo

Authenticity and cultural identity performing arts in southeast Asia / edited by Yoshitaka Terada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Osaka, : National Museum of Ethnology, 2007

ISBN

978-49-01-90644-9

Descrizione fisica

187 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Classificazione

SEA IX H

Lingua di pubblicazione

Giapponese

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965468903321

Autore

Staubach Suzanne

Titolo

Clay : The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element / / Suzanne Staubach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Press of New England

Lebanon, NH : , 2013

ISBN

9781611685046

1611685044

Edizione

[First University Press of New England edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Disciplina

620.1/91

Soggetti

Electronic books.

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

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

How a humble substance helped create a modern world

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956993503321

Autore

Rosen F

Titolo

Classical utilitarianism from Hume to Mill / / Frederick Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-59909-9

1-134-59910-2

1-280-11278-6

0-203-98735-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory ; ; 2

Disciplina

171/.5

Soggetti

Utilitarianism

Justice (Philosophy)

Liberty

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 (p. 264-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969012403321

Titolo

Conversion in the age of pluralism / / edited by Guiseppe Giordan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-60170-9

9786612601705

90-474-4494-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Religion and the social order, , 1061-5210 ; ; v. 17

Altri autori (Persone)

GiordanGiuseppe

Disciplina

248.2/4

Soggetti

Conversion

Religious pluralism

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.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: The sociology of conversion / Roberto Cipriani -- Introduction: The varieties of conversion experience / Giuseppe Giordan -- The meaning of conversion : redirection of foundational trust / Anthony J. Blasi -- Conversion : heroes and their sociological redemption / Kieran Flanagan -- Elements for a semiotics of "conversion" / Patrick Michel -- For love of faith : patterns of religious engagement in a new town / Kees de Groot -- Pilgrimage and conversion / William H. Swatos, Jr. -- Becoming a new ager : a conversion, an affiliation, a fashion? / Regis Dericquebourg -- Enchantment, identity, community, and conversion : Catholics, Afro-Brazilians and Protestants in Brazil / Roberto Motta -- Convert, revert, pervert / Enzo Pace -- Conversion as a new lifestyle : an exploratory study of Soka Gakkai in Italy / Luigi Berzano and Eliana Martoglio -- Conversion as opposition / Giuseppe Giordan -- Making the convert : conversions in the LDS community today / Sophie-Helene Trigeaud -- A cognitive psychology perspective on religious conversion as told in the Gospels / Stefano Federici, Pierluigi Caddeo, and Francesco Valerio Tommasi -- Conversion and mission : missionary insertion and the social conditions of Christianization / Paul-Andre Turcotte.

Sommario/riassunto

The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the framework linking an individual to the sociocultural contexts in which



he or she is included. Changes in personal biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values, speech, norms, behaviors, beliefs, lifestyles, interests--everything is open to potential debate when an individual \'converts.\' Conversion is especially developed here through a connection with the dynamics of pluralism, which appears to be the most peculiar cultural characteristic of our era: what does it mean to speak of \'conversion\' in a time in which it seems that the presumption of only one \'true\' truth no longer exists, while instead many different truths live together, each with its own judgment criteria.