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Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance,
little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of
urban leaderships, 'governing' institutions or the policing of
public life. Yet the issue of ethical standards in public life has
become a central concern in contemporary public discourse; with
issues of public probity, moral order and personal standards
re-emerging as central features of political debate. This volume
places these debates into their historical perspective by examining
the linkages between processes of 'modernisation', urbanisation and
the ethical standards of governance and public life. It considers
how ethical debates arise as a result of differential access to
positions of authority and from competition for public resources.
The contributions are drawn from a wide range of scholarly and
disciplinary backgrounds and provide a broad analysis of the
phenomenon of corruption, assessing how debates about corruption
arose, the narratives used to criticise established modes of public
conduct and their consequences for urban leadership.
Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance,
little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of
urban leaderships, 'governing' institutions or the policing of
public life. Yet the issue of ethical standards in public life has
become a central concern in contemporary public discourse; with
issues of public probity, moral order and personal standards
re-emerging as central features of political debate. This volume
places these debates into their historical perspective by examining
the linkages between processes of 'modernisation', urbanisation and
the ethical standards of governance and public life. It considers
how ethical debates arise as a result of differential access to
positions of authority and from competition for public resources.
The contributions are drawn from a wide range of scholarly and
disciplinary backgrounds and provide a broad analysis of the
phenomenon of corruption, assessing how debates about corruption
arose, the narratives used to criticise established modes of public
conduct and their consequences for urban leadership.
The Post-Darwinian Controversies offers an original interpretation
of Protestant responses to Darwin after 1870, viewing them in a
transatlantic perspective and as a constitutive part of the history
of post-Darwinian evolutionary thought. The impact of evolutionary
theory on the religious consciousness of the nineteenth century has
commonly been seen in terms of a 'conflict' or 'warfare' between
science and theology. Dr. Moore's account begins by discussing the
polemical origins and baneful effects of the 'military metaphor',
and this leads to a revised view of the controversies based on an
analysis of the underlying intellectual struggle to come to terms
with Darwin. The middle section of the book distinguishes the
'Darwinism' of Darwin himself amid the main currents of
post-Darwinian evolutionary thought, and is followed by chapters
which examine the responses to Darwin of twenty-eight Christian
controversialists, tracing the philosophical and theological
lineage of their views. The paradox that emerges - that Darwin's
theory was accepted in substance only by those whose theology was
distinctly orthodox theology and of other evolutionary theories
with liberal and romantic theological speculation.
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Darwin (Paperback, New ed)
Adrian Desmond, James R. Moore
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This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God. Central to all of this, his pioneering efforts on the theory of evolution now that recent studies have overturned the commonplace views of Darwin that have held for more than a century.
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