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In this important new study from the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, Moody examines how NATO can best exploit
advanced technology to bolster its conventional forces on the
battlefield of the future. The Dreadful Fury is a unique analysis
integrating the political, military, economic, and technological
factors shaping the tough choices confronting Atlantic Alliance
policy makers. Drawing on the author's experience at NATO
Headquarters, the book's focus on alliance rather than national
perspectives of military technology provides an unusual approach to
one of the most difficult challenges facing NATO today. After a
brief review of the nature of technological change in the modern
age, the book examines the shifting industrial landscape within
which that change occurs. It then addresses the key problems
Alliance policy makers must confront in such critical areas as
technology transfer, allied cooperation in development and
procurement of modern arms, and the impact of new technology on the
conduct of war. In the book's final chapter, a package of policy
recommendations is offered to help chart a steady NATO course
through the turbulent 1990s.
Philanthropy is both timeless and timely. Ancient Romans, Medieval
aristocrats, and Victorian industrialists engaged in philanthropy,
as do modern-day Chinese billionaires, South African activists, and
Brazilian nuns. Today, philanthropic practice is evolving faster
than ever before, with donors giving their time, talents, and
social capital in creative new ways and in combination with their
financial resources. These developments are generating complex new
debates and adding new twists to enduring questions, from "why be
philanthropic?" to "what does it mean to do philanthropy 'better'?"
Addressing such questions requires greater understanding of the
contested purpose and diverse practice of philanthropy. With an
international and interdisciplinary focus, The Philanthropy Reader
serves as a one-stop resource that brings together essential and
engaging extracts from key texts and major thinkers, and frames
these in a way that captures the historical development, core
concepts, perennial debates, global reach, and recent trends of
this field. The book includes almost 100 seminal and illuminating
writings about philanthropy, equipping readers with the guiding
material they need to better grasp such a crucial yet complex and
evolving topic. Additional readings and discussion questions also
accompany the text as online supplements. This text will be
essential reading for students on philanthropy courses worldwide,
and will also be of interest to anyone active in the philanthropic
and nonprofit sectors - from donors and grantmakers, to advisers
and fundraisers.
Philanthropy is both timeless and timely. Ancient Romans, Medieval
aristocrats, and Victorian industrialists engaged in philanthropy,
as do modern-day Chinese billionaires, South African activists, and
Brazilian nuns. Today, philanthropic practice is evolving faster
than ever before, with donors giving their time, talents, and
social capital in creative new ways and in combination with their
financial resources. These developments are generating complex new
debates and adding new twists to enduring questions, from "why be
philanthropic?" to "what does it mean to do philanthropy 'better'?"
Addressing such questions requires greater understanding of the
contested purpose and diverse practice of philanthropy. With an
international and interdisciplinary focus, The Philanthropy Reader
serves as a one-stop resource that brings together essential and
engaging extracts from key texts and major thinkers, and frames
these in a way that captures the historical development, core
concepts, perennial debates, global reach, and recent trends of
this field. The book includes almost 100 seminal and illuminating
writings about philanthropy, equipping readers with the guiding
material they need to better grasp such a crucial yet complex and
evolving topic. Additional readings and discussion questions also
accompany the text as online supplements. This text will be
essential reading for students on philanthropy courses worldwide,
and will also be of interest to anyone active in the philanthropic
and nonprofit sectors - from donors and grantmakers, to advisers
and fundraisers.
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Against Happiness (Paperback)
Owen Flanagan, Joseph E. Ledoux, Bobby Bingle, Daniel M. Haybron, Batja Mesquita, …
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R707
Discovery Miles 7 070
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The "happiness agenda" is a worldwide movement that claims that
happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and
public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a
thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws
of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on
equality and justice. Written by an interdisciplinary team of
authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis
of the limitations of the happiness agenda. The authors emphasize
that this movement draws on a parochial, Western-centric
philosophical basis and demographic sample. They show that
happiness defined as subjective satisfaction or a surplus of
positive emotions bears little resemblance to the richer and more
nuanced concepts of the good life found in many world traditions.
Cross-cultural philosophy, comparative theology, and social and
cultural psychology all teach that cultures and subcultures vary in
how much value they place on life satisfaction or feeling happy.
Furthermore, the ideas promoted by the happiness agenda can compete
with rights, justice, sustainability, and equality-and even conceal
racial and gender injustice. Against Happiness argues that a better
way forward requires integration of cross-cultural philosophical,
ethical, and political thought with critical social science.
Ultimately, the authors contend, happiness should be a secondary
goal-worth pursuing only if it is contingent on the demands of
justice.
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Against Happiness (Hardcover)
Owen Flanagan, Joseph E. Ledoux, Bobby Bingle, Daniel M. Haybron, Batja Mesquita, …
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R3,512
Discovery Miles 35 120
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The "happiness agenda" is a worldwide movement that claims that
happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and
public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a
thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws
of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on
equality and justice. Written by an interdisciplinary team of
authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis
of the limitations of the happiness agenda. The authors emphasize
that this movement draws on a parochial, Western-centric
philosophical basis and demographic sample. They show that
happiness defined as subjective satisfaction or a surplus of
positive emotions bears little resemblance to the richer and more
nuanced concepts of the good life found in many world traditions.
Cross-cultural philosophy, comparative theology, and social and
cultural psychology all teach that cultures and subcultures vary in
how much value they place on life satisfaction or feeling happy.
Furthermore, the ideas promoted by the happiness agenda can compete
with rights, justice, sustainability, and equality-and even conceal
racial and gender injustice. Against Happiness argues that a better
way forward requires integration of cross-cultural philosophical,
ethical, and political thought with critical social science.
Ultimately, the authors contend, happiness should be a secondary
goal-worth pursuing only if it is contingent on the demands of
justice.
From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today,
progressive social movements have been at the forefront of social
change. Yet it is seldom recognized that such movements have not
only engaged in political action but also posed crucial
philosophical questions about the meaning of justice and about how
the demands of justice can be met. Michele Moody-Adams argues that
anyone who is concerned with the theory or the practice of
justice-or both-must ask what can be learned from social movements.
Drawing on a range of compelling examples, she explores what they
have shown about the nature of justice as well as what it takes to
create space for justice in the world. Moody-Adams considers
progressive social movements as wellsprings of moral inquiry and as
agents of social change, drawing out key philosophical and
practical principles. Social justice demands humane regard for
others, combining compassionate concern and robust respect.
Successful movements have drawn on the transformative power of
imagination, strengthening the motivation to pursue justice and to
create the political institutions and social policies that can
sustain it by inspiring political hope. Making Space for Justice
contends that the insights arising from social movements are
critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and
effective practice-and should be transformative for political
thought as well as for political activism.
From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today,
progressive social movements have been at the forefront of social
change. Yet it is seldom recognized that such movements have not
only engaged in political action but also posed crucial
philosophical questions about the meaning of justice and about how
the demands of justice can be met. Michele Moody-Adams argues that
anyone who is concerned with the theory or the practice of
justice-or both-must ask what can be learned from social movements.
Drawing on a range of compelling examples, she explores what they
have shown about the nature of justice as well as what it takes to
create space for justice in the world. Moody-Adams considers
progressive social movements as wellsprings of moral inquiry and as
agents of social change, drawing out key philosophical and
practical principles. Social justice demands humane regard for
others, combining compassionate concern and robust respect.
Successful movements have drawn on the transformative power of
imagination, strengthening the motivation to pursue justice and to
create the political institutions and social policies that can
sustain it by inspiring political hope. Making Space for Justice
contends that the insights arising from social movements are
critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and
effective practice-and should be transformative for political
thought as well as for political activism.
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