This central volume in the Collected Essays brings together John Finnis's wide-ranging contribution to fundamental issues in political philosophy. The volume begins by examining the general theory of political community and social justice. It includes the powerful and well-known Maccabaean Lecture on Bills of Rights - a searching critique of Ronald Dworkin's moral-political ar...(展开全部)

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of ...(展开全部)

In a short span, this Element will delineate the general nature of legal and moral rights and the general nature of the holding of rights, and it will also sketch the justificatory foundations of rights. Hence, the Element will treat of some major topics within legal, political, and moral philosophy as it combines analytical theses and ethical theses in a complex pattern.

本杰明·格雷格（Benjamin Gregg），供职于美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校政治学系，现为牛津大学哲学系客座教授。本科毕业于耶鲁大学，在普林斯顿大学获得硕士学位，分别在普林斯顿大学和德国柏林自由大学获得政治学博士学位和哲学博士学位，擅长政治哲学和复杂现代社会的社会学理论研究。主要作品有《浓厚的道德，稀薄的政治：贯穿社区信仰的社会整合》、《以不确定的规范处理政治事务：开明的地方主义理论》、《人权国家：主权国家之内与之外的正义》、《将人类的本性称为文化设计的生命伦理学：基因工程的政治挑战》（待出）。

From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to pu...(展开全部)

羅伯特．L．伯恩斯坦 (Robert L. Bernstein) 又稱鮑伯．伯恩斯坦 曾任蘭登書屋總經理25年，成立人權觀察並擔任其理事長長達20年，並升格為榮譽主席；1998年榮獲美國政府頒發的艾琳諾．羅斯福人權獎。他也曾擔任過美國出版協會會長，榮獲紐約公民自由聯盟、人權律師委員會與美國出版協會頒發的諸多獎項，以及巴德學院、新學院、斯沃斯莫爾學院和耶魯大學的榮譽博士學位。羅伯特同時也是美國外交關係協會的成員、艾倫戴蒙基金會執行委員會主席與羅伯特甘迺迪人權獎諮詢委員。耶魯大學法學院更是以他之名設立了3個獎學金項目，紐約大學以他之名創立了羅伯特．伯恩斯坦人權研究中心。已於2019年5月27日離世。 道格．梅里諾 (Doug Merlino) 現居紐約市的作家。 譯者簡介 許絜嵐 就讀於加拿大西門菲莎大學心理系，並於該校取得翻譯暨口譯文憑。曾從事電影字幕...(展开全部)

羅伯特．L．伯恩斯坦 (Robert L. Bernstein) 又稱鮑伯．伯恩斯坦 曾任蘭登書屋總經理25年，成立人權觀察並擔任其理事長長達20年，並升格為榮譽主席；1998年榮獲美國政府頒發的艾琳諾．羅斯福人權獎。他也曾擔任過美國出版協會會長，榮獲紐約公民自由聯盟、人權律師委員會與美國出版協會頒發的諸多獎項，以及巴德學院、新學院、斯沃斯莫爾學院和耶魯大學的榮譽博士學位。羅伯特同時也是美國外交關係協會的成員、艾倫戴蒙基金會執行委員會主席與羅伯特甘迺迪人權獎諮詢委員。耶魯大學法學院更是以他之名設立了3個獎學金項目，紐約大學以他之名創立了羅伯特．伯恩斯坦人權研究中心。已於2019年5月27日離世。 道格．梅里諾 (Doug Merlino) 現居紐約市的作家。 譯者簡介 許絜嵐 就讀於加拿大西門菲莎大學心理系，並於該校取得翻譯暨口譯文憑。曾從事電影字幕...(展开全部)

Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, i...(展开全部)

In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Mapping Human History is a groundbreaking synthesis of science and history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the latest genetic...(展开全部)