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American culture is in a state of transition. What is the nature of
this change? To what degree is it desirable? What are its
implications? It is to these questions in relation to various
aspects of our culture that eight distinguished scholars here
address themselves.
"Men enjoy justice steadily and by design only when they live in a
society that affords opportunities to all . . . to form aspirations
for their society."-From the Introduction "The crux about which
this book revolves is theory of justice," writes Clarence Morris.
In its simplest form, his theory is this: the more the law
implements the public's genuine and important aspirations-not its
desires for individual gratification but the social, deep-seated
unselfish, nonexploitable aspirations-the more just the legal
system becomes. "Man's capacity for justice does not flow from
divine reason or divine revelation. Men enjoy justice steadily and
by design only when they live in a society that affords
opportunities in all its inhabitants to develop their capacity to
form aspirations for their society." Up to now the world's capacity
for justice, so defined, has been small. Some believe that the
Western world is still too suppressed for such aspirations and that
true justice will emerge only after its liberation. Herbert Marcuse
calls for liberation through revolution; John Stuart Mill, relying
on man's reason, urged peaceful nonconformity. Both, says Morris,
are wrong-but we should learn from Marcuse that every aspiration
has an emotional dimension, and we should not allow Mill to
persuade us that justice is only a matter of factual discovery.
And, since justices are always in flux, the justice of one time or
place can become the clumsy legalistics of another. In the light of
this theory of justice the author examines the complex logic with
which the law must tread its way through the maze of human
existence; the need for general rules ("enacted law" and judicial
precedents); the function of sociological insights in the
development of common law; and the role of statutory penal law,
strikingly illustrated from the Chinese Imperial Code.
Contributors: John M. Blum, John Kenneth Galbraith, Alexander H.
Leighton, and Clarence Morris.
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Nutrient Indicator Models for Determining Biologically Relevant
Levels: A case study based on the Corn Belt and Northern Great
Plain Nutrient Ecoregion is the first book to provide answers to
the management of nutrients based on changes in biological
communities. The text describes a case study that is the result of
a large scale project in the Corn Belt and Great Plains Nutrient
Ecoregion. This study is the first to identify relationships
between fish assemblages and nutrient concentrations by Nitrogen
species. Species optima based on sensitivity and tolerance to
nutrients is modeled. Nutrient Biotic indices calibrated for
application are based on the results of years of biological
indicator development. Test response intervals and Shift response
intervals are formulated and validated against relevant biological
assemblage shifts. This case study is the first to suggest
recommended values for the nitrogen and phosphorus cycle with
identifiable shifts caused in biological assemblages. This will
provide watershed and environmental managers with the information
needed to manage the inputs into the world's dead zones. "
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.
Contributing Author John M. Blum, John K. Galbraith, Alexander H.
Leighton And Many Others.
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