1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798329303321

Autore

Dutton Blake D.

Titolo

Augustine and Academic Skepticism : A Philosophical Study / / Blake D. Dutton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-5017-0354-4

1-5017-0355-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

189/.2

Soggetti

Skepticism

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Augustine and the Academics -- Part I. Discrediting Academic Skepticism as a Philosophical Practice -- 2. Socrates, the Academics, and the Good Life -- 3. Happiness, Wisdom, and the Insufficiency of Inquiry -- 4. The Inaction Objection -- 5. Inquiry and Belief on Authority -- 6. The Error of the Academics -- Afterword to Part I -- Part II. Vindicating the Possibility of Knowledge -- 7. The Academic Denial of the Possibility of Knowledge -- 8. The Apprehensible Truths of Philosophy -- 9. Platonism and the Apprehensible Truths of Philosophy -- 10. Defense of the Senses -- 11. First-Person Truths -- Afterword to Part II -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Among the most important, but frequently neglected, figures in the history of debates over skepticism is Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). His early dialogue, Against the Academics, together with substantial material from his other writings, constitutes a sustained attempt to respond to the tradition of skepticism with which he was familiar. This was the tradition of Academic skepticism, which had its home in Plato's Academy and was transmitted to the Roman world through the writings of Cicero (106-43 BCE). Augustine and Academic Skepticism is the first comprehensive treatment of Augustine's critique of Academic skepticism. In clear and accessible prose, Blake D. Dutton presents that critique as a serious work of philosophy and engages with it precisely



as such.While Dutton provides an extensive review of Academic skepticism and Augustine's encounter with it, his primary concern is to articulate and evaluate Augustine's strategy to discredit Academic skepticism as a philosophical practice and vindicate the possibility of knowledge against the Academic denial of that possibility. In doing so, he sheds considerable light on Augustine's views on philosophical inquiry and the acquisition of knowledge.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00124363

Titolo

A classical map of Asia Minor / W. M. Calder, George E. Bean

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : The British Institute of Aechaeology at Ankara, 1958

Descrizione fisica

8 p., 1 c. di tav. ; 27 cm

Disciplina

912

Soggetti

Cartografia - Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910502632903321

Autore

Leung Elly

Titolo

The (Re)Making of the Chinese Working Class : Labor Activism and Passivity in China / / by Elly Leung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030833138

3030833135

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Debates in Business History, , 2662-4370

Disciplina

322.20951

305.5620951

Soggetti

Management

International business enterprises

Political sociology

Industrial sociology

Labor

History

Asia - Politics and government

International Business

Political Sociology

Sociology of Work

Labor History

Asian Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Introduction: Debates on Workers’ consciousness development in China -- Chapter 2 The (Re-) Making of a Docile working class in China -- Chapter 3 Automatic Docility in Market Socialism -- Chapter 4 “Beyond” the Selves and Reflective Docility -- Chapter 5 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book engages with Foucault’s theoretical works to understand the (re-) making of the working-class in China. In so doing, the author applies Foucault’s genealogical (historicalization) method to explore



the ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) develop Chinese governmentality (or government of mentalities) among everyday workers in its thought management system. Through the investigation of the key events in Chinese history, she presents how China’s stable political party is sustained through the CCP’s ability to retain, update and incorporate many Confucian discourses into its contemporary form of thought management system using social networks, such as families and schools, to continuously (re-) shape workers’ consciousness into one that maintains their docility. This book will bring a new voice to the debate of Chinese working-class politics and labour movements. It will serve as a gateway to comprehensive knowledge about China forstudents and academics with interests in Chinese employment relations, Chinese politics, labourist activist culture, and social movements. Elly Leung is a research officer at the University of Western Australia. Since completing the doctoral thesis that explored how workers’ consciousness and mentalities were (re-) shaped by the State in China, her writings have appeared in various books and journals.