1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996218817003316

Autore

Kechagia Eleni

Titolo

Plutarch Against Colotes: A Lesson in History of Philosophy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-173149-8

0-19-959723-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Oxford classical monographs Plutarch against Colotes

Classificazione

CD 6517

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Languages & Literatures

Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Kechagia rehabilitates Plutarch as a thinker and historian of philosophy by offering an analysis of 'Against Colotes', an anti-Epicurean treatise in which Plutarch discusses some of the most important philosophical theories. The book argues that Plutarch produces insightful philosophical interpretations of past theories.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910976051103321

Autore

Brunet-Jailly Emmanuel

Titolo

Borderlands / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.] : , : University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, , 2007

ISBN

9780776606514

0776606514

9780776615516

0776615513

9780776627151

0776627155

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Soggetti

Political Science

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and tons of goods that cross borders daily, particularly in large cross-border urban regions.This book addresses this gap between security needs and an understanding of borders and borderlands. Specifically, the chapters in this volume ask policy-makers to recognize that two fundamental elements define borders and borderlands: first, human activities (the agency and agent power of individual ties and forces spanning a border), and second, the broader social processes that



frame individual action, such as market forces, government activities (law, regulations, and policies), and the regional culture and politics of a borderland.Borders emerge as the historically and geographically variable expression of human ties exercised within social structures of varying force and influence, and it is the interplay and interdependence between people's incentives to act and the surrounding structures (i.e. constructed social processes that contain and constrain individual action) that determine the effectiveness of border security policies.This book argues that the nature of borders is to be porous, which is a problem for security policy makers. It shows that when for economic, cultural, or political reasons human activities increase across a border and borderland, governments need to increase cooperation and collaboration with regard to security policies, if only to avoid implementing mismatched security policies.