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Ideas play a more crucial role in history than they appear to do at first sight. If not sufficiently scrutinized, they sometimes lead to results far divergent from the initial intentions of those who put them forth as lines of orientation for practice. This seems to be also the case with the idea of "development", which has marked social and political practice in the second half of the 20 th Century. In this volume philosophers from different parts of the world discuss, and attempt to evaluate, from epistemological and ethical points of view, the idea of "development", as the principal objective of national and international policies during the past few decades.
Ideas play a more crucial role in history than they appear to do at first sight. If not sufficiently scrutinized, they sometimes lead to results far divergent from the initial intentions of those who put them forth as lines of orientation for practice. This seems to be also the case with the idea of “development”, which has marked social and political practice in the second half of the 20th Century. In this volume philosophers from different parts of the world discuss, and attempt to evaluate, from epistemological and ethical points of view, the idea of “development”, as the principal objective of national and international policies during the past few decades.
New package for a cult classic. First published in 2003, The Book of Lies was hailed as a 21st grimoire and instantly became a cult classic. Now reformatted for the next generation of magicians and all counterculture devotees, it gathers an unprecedented cabal of occultists, esoteric scholars, and forward thinkers, all curated by Disinformation's former "wicked warlock" Richard Metzger. This compendium of the occult includes entries on topics as diverse and dangerous as Aleister Crowley, Secret Societies, Psychedelics, and Magick in theory and practice. The result is an alchemical formula that may well rip a hole in the fabric of your reality: Terence McKenna asks if we contact "aliens" with...
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
This volume consists of papers and interviews which attempt to shed a strong light on the ethical problems that the death penalty presents, to put a finger on what constitutes the core problem of this punishment, and to show where humanity stands in this respect in the first quarter of the 21 st century. Its contributors are Robert (Renny) Cushing, Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Tsakhia Elbegdorj, Gilbert (Gill) Garcetti, Hanne Sophie Greve, Phillip F. Iya, Sylvie Zainabo Kayitesi, Ioanna Kucuradi (ed.), Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Joaquin Jos'e Martínez, Federico Mayor, Ibrahim Najjar, Rajiv Narayan, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, Bill Richardson, Jos'e Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Horacio Verbitsky and Asunta Vivo.
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Dieser 3. Band zum "NS-Klostersturm" im Erzbistum Paderborn erhellt die beiden Gestapo-Attacken gegen Mönche und Nonnen der beiden missionsbenediktinischen Niederlassungen im Hochsauerland: Am 19. März 1941 erfolgt in Meschede der erste Schlag gegen die Kongregation von St. Ottilien überhaupt. Das 13 Jahre bestehende Kloster Königsmünster soll keine Zukunft mehr haben. Drei Patres kommen in Haft, die anderen Benediktiner werden nach Süddeutschland gebracht. Am Morgen des 26. Juni 1941 rückt ein Kommando der Geheimen Staatspolizei dann auch im kleinen Dorf Olpe an, um dort das letzte Haus der Missions-Benediktinerinnen von Tutzing aufzulösen und die Nonnen von Marienfried zu vertreibe...
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