1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911004855903321

Titolo

Facilities engineering and management handbook : commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : McGraw Hill, 2001

ISBN

1-61583-332-3

Disciplina

658.2

Soggetti

Plant engineering

Facility management

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Industrial & Management Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019288103321

Titolo

The handbook of global companies / / edited by John Mikler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester [England], : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013

ISBN

9781118326145 (electronic book)

9781118326121

1118326121

9781118326169

1118326164

9781118326152

1118326156

9781299402195

1299402194

9781118326145

1118326148

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 522 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Handbooks of global policy

Altri autori (Persone)

MiklerJohn

Disciplina

322/.3

Soggetti

International business enterprises - Political aspects

Business and politics

International relations

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

pt. 1. Locating global companies -- pt. 2. Global companies and power -- pt. 3. Global companies and the state -- pt. 4. Global companies and international organizations -- pt. 5. Global companies and society -- pt. 6. The exercise and limitations of private global governance.

Sommario/riassunto

The Handbook of Global Companies brings together original research addressing the latest theories and empirical analysis surrounding the role of global companies in local, national, and international governance. Offers new insights into the role of global companies in relation to policy and governance at local, national, and international levelsBrings together newly-commissioned research by a global team of established and up-and-coming scholars from the fields of



international relations, political science, public policy, and beyondConsiders the environme

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910309858203321

Autore

Rosenthal-Pubul Alexander S

Titolo

The Theoretic Life - A Classical Ideal and its Modern Fate : Reflections on the Liberal Arts / / by Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-030-02281-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 pages)

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Intellectual life—History

Philosophy

Europe—History

Ethics

Political science - Philosophy

Classical Philosophy

Intellectual Studies

History of Philosophy

European History

Political Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Table of Figures -- Part I – The Emergence of the Theoretic Life in Classical Greek Philosophy -- Chapter 1. The New Barbarism: The Contest between Classical Humanist Culture and Techno-Economic Pragmatism -- Chapter 2. In Pursuit of the Noble: The Classical Birth of the Liberal Arts -- Chapter 3: The Political and the Theoretic Life – the Challenge of Socrates -- Chapter 4. Aristotelian Teleology: The Bridge Between Natural Philosophy and the problem of “the Good Life” -- Chapter 5. The



Aristotelian Revolution: The Autonomy of the Theoretic Life and the Dream of Universal Science -- Part II. The Baconian Revolt against Greek Theoria and the Modern Birth of the Technological Mind -- Chapter 6. The Rebirth of Time: Sir. Francis Bacon and the Origins of Modernity -- Chapter 7. Bacon´s New Magic: The Transfigured Aim of the Sciences -- Chapter 8. Technology Displaces Metaphysics - Bacon´s New Hierarchy of the Arts and Sciences -- Chapter 9. Breaking Aristotle´s Bridge: The Modern Philosophical Critique of Teleology -- Chapter 10. The Enlightenment as a Baconian Revolution -- Chapter 11. Metaphysics Dethroned: Hume, Kant, and the “Self-Limitation of Reason” -- Chapter 12. –Progressivism, Commerce, and the Triumph of Machine Civilization -- Chapter 13. The Classical Ideal of High Culture in the Democratic Age -- Chapter 14. Dewey and the Greeks in Contention: The Theoretic Life and the Challenge of American Pragmatism -- Chapter 15. A Reply to Dewey -- Chapter 16. The Contemporary Crisis of the Humanities: The Ideological Attack on the Western Canon and The Long Arm of Nietzsche, Marx, and Foucault -- Chapter 17. The New Protrepticus: A Concluding Exhortation to the Theoretic Life -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad examination of the ancient philosophical question: “What is the good life?”, while addressing how the liberal arts can help us to answer this question. Greek philosophy distinguished between the “noble” (what is good in itself), from the merely “useful” (good for something else). From thence follows the distinction between the liberal arts which pursue such noble goods and the mechanical arts which are only instrumental. For Aristotle, the most noble and excellent good is wisdom itself. Hence the theoretic life devoted to the love of wisdom for its own sake –philosophy - is the highest and the most excellent. This work theorizes the origins of modernity in a rebellion against this Greek conception resulting in a complete inversion of the classical hierarchy. Sir. Francis Bacon reconceiving the purpose of knowledge as power, enthroned technology over philosophy and the liberal arts. The unfolding of the modern Baconian revolution progressively sidelines the liberal arts, as practical economic and technical utility become the standard of value. In assessing this problem, the book engages in a capacious journey across disciplines like philosophy, history, art, politics, and science. It is also a veritable tour across the Western intellectual tradition including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Thomas Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Dewey, Berdyaev, Einstein, and Heidegger. It pleads the urgent need to preserve the humanizing cultural ideals of the ancient classics against the modern tyranny of utility and the dangers of a new barbarism. .