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The Greeks and the Rational
Introduction : discovering practical reason -- Gyges' choice : rationality and visibility -- Glaucon's dilemma : origins of social order -- Deioces' ultimatum : how to choose a ruler -- Solon's bargain : self-enforcing constitutional order -- Melos' prospect : limits of inter-state rationality -- Socrates' critique : problems for democratic rationality -- Cephalus' expertise : economic rationality -- Conclusions : utility and eudaimonia -- Appendix : probability, risk, and likelihood.
Hearings
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Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
Explores the connections between art and play in ancient Greek thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle.
THE DARKNESS OF SEX CRIMES
The Darkness Of Sex Crimes (2023 Justice Report) compiles in one catalog the news report on sex crimes for the year 2023. A research resource for lawyers, , detectives, criminologists, sociologists, journalists or policy makers, the book covers reported convictions on sex crimes and ancillary matters. WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS MATERIALS THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND SENSITIVE. DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
The 1% Mindset: The Stevie Kidd Pathway
The 1% Mindset 'It's not what happens to you that defines your life, but how you react to it that matters.' Epictetus Let me take you to the end of this book. Who you are, here at the start, will no longer exist. You can try and cheat, flick through to the end, skim it, but you'll still be here, back where you started. I'm Stevie Kidd and this is the book you never knew was for you. Until now. My own journey through the twelve steps is here in black and white. A life lived in ten-year chunks, refined by reinvention. By reading every chapter and undertaking the exercises at the end of each chapter, you will rise to self- discover how far you can actually grow. Live your Pathway. Be in a posit...
Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay
In Love and its Entanglements among the Enxet of Paraguay: Social and Kinship Relations within a Market Economy, Stephen Kidd examines the affective discourse and value systems of the indigenous Enxet people. Kidd’s analysis focuses on how the Enxet navigate the market economy in Paraguay and the tensions it exerts on their commitment to egalitarianism, generosity, and personal autonomy.
The London Gazette
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The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy
Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets, from vocabulary and figures of speech (metaphors, similes, rhyme) to types of joke, obscenity, and the mechanisms of parody. Most of the chapters focus on Aristophanes and Old Comedy, which offers the richest arsenal of such techniques, but the less ploughed fields of Middle and New Comedy are also explored. Emphasis is placed on practical criticism and textual readings, on the examination of particul...
Acting on Faith
Acting on Faith deftly examines the role of religious discourse in processes of economic development by exploring a case study based on twelve months of intensive qualitative research examining the role of small, Catholic non-government organizations (NGOs) in indigenous communities in northwest Argentina. The difficulty facing the communities and their associated NGOs is how to create conditions that ameliorate poverty, without undermining cultural values.
