How do laws resemble rules of games, moral rules, personal rules, rules found in religious teachings, school rules, and so on? Are laws rules at all? Are they all made by human beings? And if so how should we go about interpreting them? How are they organized into systems, and what does it mean for these systems to have 'constitutions'? Should everyone want to live under a syst...(展开全部)

This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines key theological, prophetic, and educational themes, and looks at the role of relig...(展开全部)

Despite Li Gonglin’s (ca. 1049-1106) deep faith in Buddhism and the large number of recorded and extant Buddhist paintings associated with or ascribed to this great painter, twentieth century scholarship on Li Gonglin has focused primarily on his literatus identity and Confucian art oeuvres. This book departs from this traditional view to establish Li Gonglin’s importance in Ch...(展开全部)

In this period we've seen tremendous volatility in stock prices, a market bubble and its subsequent pop, a parade of corporate scandals, the demise of a leading accounting firm and proven deception by many so-called investment analysts employed by major brokerage firms.

This is the first book to consider John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psych

达尼埃尔•阿拉斯，1944年生于阿尔及尔，2003年卒于巴黎，是西方当代著名的艺术史家。早年就读于法国高等师范学院，后曾为罗马法国学院成员，并担任法国高等社会科学院研究部历史及艺术理论中心主任。阿拉斯的研究以绘画为主，特别是意大利16世纪和17世纪的艺术作品；此外，他也关注17世纪的荷兰画派及18世纪的法国绘画，并在晚年展开对于西方当代艺术的研究。著作包括《细节：为了建立一部靠近绘画的历史》《矫饰主义的文艺复兴》《莱奥纳多•达•芬奇：世界的节奏》《意大利的天使报喜图》《安塞姆•基弗》《我们什么也没看见》《绘画史事》《拉斐尔的异象灵见》等。 刘爽，中央美术学院人文学院讲师，美术学博士，主要从事“东西方艺术交流（15—18世纪）”“跨文化美术史”的研究工作。2016年曾作为访问学者，前往意大利博洛尼亚大学(Università di Bologna)深造...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

What are the aims of legal philosophy? Which questions should it seek to address? How should legal philosophers approach and engage with their subject-matter, and what constraints are incumbent on them as they do so? What are the criteria of success of theories of law, and how do we know if they have been met? Can there be progress in legal philosophy? In Elucidating Law, Julie...(展开全部)

Richard Posner discusses the structure and behaviour of the legal profession; constitutional theory; interdisciplinary approaches to law; the nature of legal reasoning; and legal pragmatism. Although written by a sitting judge, the book does not avoid controversy, and contains frank appraisals of feminist and critical race theories, the behaviour of the German and British judic...(展开全部)

In Fiduciary Law, Tamar Frankel examines the structure, principles, themes, and objectives of fiduciary law. Fiduciaries, which include corporate managers, money managers, lawyers, and physicians among others, are entrusted with money or power. Frankel explains how fiduciary law is designed to offer protection from abuse of this method of safekeeping. She deals with fiduciar...(展开全部)