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The Concept of Explanation – ebook
A collection of essays devoted to the problem of explanation in various disciplines of science and humanities namely mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, economics as well as theology. The issues covered include such topics as the interplay between explanation and understanding, the problem of a priori explanation, the limits of causal explanations in physics, the application of...Data dostępności:
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The Concept of Dilemma in Legal and Judicial Ethics – ebook
Paweł Skuczyński Przemysław Kaczmarek Krzysztof J. Kaleta Paweł Łabieniec Marcin Pieniążek Sebastian Sykuna
Książka stanowi kompleksowe opracowanie na temat dylematu moralnego w kontekście etyki prawniczej. W pierwszej części monografii (teoretycznej), autorzy prezentują pojęcie dylematu na gruncie metaetyki oraz możliwości jego zastosowania w praktyce zawodowej prawnika. Druga część monografii (część praktyczna) to prezentacja około 150 przykładowych dylematów etycznych, z którymi może zetknąć się wykonujący...Data dostępności:
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Politics – ebook
The treatise is divided into 8 chapters (books), each of which is devoted to a particular topic. First of all, in the first book, Aristotle begins his concept with the very concept of „state”, since without understanding this term one can forget about further theory. In the second book, Aristotle undertakes to criticize the already existing theories about the state, namely the theory of Plato, Faley...Data dostępności:
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The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science – ebook
Clifford Angell Bates Jr
The book concentrates on the crucial Aristotelian concept of politeia, trying to show how its understanding has evolved for years, often towards fallacious interpretations. The text also points out how reconstruction of the original meaning of the concept can help in creating the frames for modern political science to avoid the traps of ethnocentrism and methodological reductionism that appear in most...Data dostępności:
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The Power of Darkness – ebook
Leo Tolstoy
The very concept of „The Power of Darkness” for Tolstoy corresponds to the Gospel, where darkness is identified with the concept of hell and death, and light with hope and paradise. The Power of Darkness expresses not only religious, but also philosophical ideas of the great Russian writer. Darkness is the moral blindness of people who commit a crime in order to satisfy the most base motives. The power...Data dostępności:
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The Night Born – ebook
Jack London
Romance and adventure, the majestic nature and extreme conditions, strong and independent heroes – Jack London’s stories are extremely popular, more than a hundred adaptations of works are known. In a small work, Born in the Night, the author shows how the benefits of civilization are inferior to the forest and to a huge concept called Freedom. A woman who stumbles upon abandoned bags of gold does...Data dostępności:
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The Scarlet Letter – ebook
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Amazingly conveyed the characters of the era and characters, suffering and atonement, sin and clogging of society. The plot of the story is simple – a married woman, whose husband has been absent for two years, gives birth to a child. In Puritan society, where the concept of „"personal life"” does not exist, the people are in deep shock from what happened, but mercifully decides not to kill the woman,...Data dostępności:
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The Adventures of Jimmie Dale – ebook
Frank L. Packard
Wealthy millionaire by day, at night Jimmie Dale put on a costume and becomes „The Grey Seal,” daredevil safe cracker and footpad – he never takes a thing, but leaves behind his mark, a grey seal of paper to mark his conquest. He was just doing it for „the sheer deviltry of it” at first, but when a woman catches him she blackmails him to war on certain crime organizations. Frank Packard’s Gray Seal...Data dostępności:
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Skin and Bones – ebook
Thorne Smith
Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel „Skin and Bones” takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself...Data dostępności:
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The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet – ebook
George Bernard Shaw
“The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Shaw claimed that "this little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form", the plot being less important than the debate about morality and divinity that occurs between the characters. He was...Data dostępności:
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