Nasty, Brutish, and Short - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nasty, Brutish, and Short write by Scott Hershovitz. This book was released on 2022-05-03. Nasty, Brutish, and Short available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An NPR Best Book of 2022 * One of Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of May “This amazing new book . . . takes us on a journey through classic and contemporary philosophy powered by questions like ‘What do we have the right to do? When is it okay to do this or that?’ They explore punishment and authority and sex and gender and race and the nature of truth and knowledge and the existence of God and the meaning of life and Scott just does an incredible job.” —Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic Some of the best philosophers in the world gather in surprising places—preschools and playgrounds. They debate questions about metaphysics and morality, even though they’ve never heard the words and perhaps can’t even tie their shoes. They’re kids. And as Scott Hershovitz shows in this delightful debut, they’re astoundingly good philosophers. Hershovitz has two young sons, Rex and Hank. From the time they could talk, he noticed that they raised philosophical questions and were determined to answer them. They re-created ancient arguments. And they advanced entirely new ones. That’s not unusual, Hershovitz says. Every kid is a philosopher. Following an agenda set by Rex and Hank, Hershovitz takes us on a fun romp through classic and contemporary philosophy, powered by questions like, Does Hank have the right to drink soda? When is it okay to swear? and, Does the number six exist? Hershovitz and his boys take on more weighty issues too. They explore punishment, authority, sex, gender, race, the nature of truth and knowledge, and the existence of God. Along the way, they get help from professional philosophers, famous and obscure. And they show that all of us have a lot to learn from listening to kids—and thinking with them. Hershovitz calls on us to support kids in their philosophical adventures. But more than that, he challenges us to join them so that we can become better, more discerning thinkers and recapture some of the wonder kids have at the world.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Nasty, Brutish, and Short - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nasty, Brutish, and Short write by Mark Totten. This book was released on 2012-03-27. Nasty, Brutish, and Short available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mark Totten has spent fifteen years learning about youth gangs. He has interviewed over 500 gang members in cities across the country, tracing their lives from infancy to adulthood, and exploring the roots of their involvement in crime and their reliance on violence. This book offers a picture of the reality of youth gangs in Canada. Much of what Totten has to say is at odds with popular ideas. His research leads him to believe that breaking through the circumstances that produce young criminals is far more difficult than most people think. For individuals caught in gang life, exiting that world is next to impossible-in fact, the most common way out is an early death from violence or suicide.
Leviathan
Leviathan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leviathan write by Thomas Hobbes. This book was released on 2012-10-03. Leviathan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
Twilight of Abundance
Twilight of Abundance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twilight of Abundance write by David Archibald. This book was released on 2014-03-24. Twilight of Abundance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years. The party is over—prepare for the twilight of abundance.
Disability and the Good Human Life
Disability and the Good Human Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disability and the Good Human Life write by Jerome E. Bickenbach. This book was released on 2015-07-30. Disability and the Good Human Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of original essays, from both established scholars and newcomers, takes up a recent debate in philosophy, sociology, and disability studies on whether disability is intrinsically a harm that lowers a person's quality of life. While this is a new question in disability scholarship, it also touches on one of the oldest philosophical questions: what is the good human life? Historically, philosophers have not been interested in the topic of disability, and when they are it is usually only in relation to questions such as euthanasia, abortion, or the moral status of disabled people. Consequently disability has been either ignored by moral and political philosophers or simply equated with a bad human life, a life not worth living. This collection takes up the challenge that disability poses to basic questions of political philosophy and bioethics, among others, by focusing on fundamental issues and practical implications of the relationship between disability and the good human life.
