Liberty, Right and Nature is a vibrant and powerful contribution to the recently renewed debate over natural rights and natural rights language. Annabel Brett argues persuasively that in order to understand the development of the concept we need to look at the way in which the Latin language of ius functioned in a wide range of philosophical contexts. Dr Brett traces the range ...(展开全部)

珍•罗伯兹（Jane Roberts，1929—1984），美国作家、诗人，20世纪最重要的通灵作家，其最著名的著作是赛斯书系列。从1963年起，珍为赛斯口述了本书及《灵魂永生》《个人实相的本质》《心灵的本质》《未知的实相》《梦与意识的投射》等书。这些资料探讨了人类心灵的本质，涵盖了心理学、超心理学、医学、物理学等领域，被认为新时代运动的基石，被西方人誉为有史以来最全面系统的修行体系。这些作品与她的诗歌和小说目前均保存在耶鲁大学图书馆。

Meaning in everyday thought and language is constructed at lightning speed. We are not conscious of the staggering complexity of the cognitive operations that drive our simplest behavior. This 1997 book examines a central component of meaning construction: the mappings that link mental spaces. A deep result of the research is that the same principles operate at the highest leve...(展开全部)

塞缪尔·早川（Samuel Hayakawa，1906—1992），日裔美籍语言学家、作家、政治家；旧金山州立大学英语教授，1968年任代理校长；1977-1983年任美国参议员。

塞缪尔·早川（Samuel Hayakawa，1906—1992），日裔美籍语言学家、作家、政治家；旧金山州立大学英语教授，1968年任代理校长；1977-1983年任美国参议员。

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.

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The remarkable French thinker Simone Weil is one of the leading intellectual and spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A legendary essayist, political philosopher and member of the French resistance, her literary output belied her tragically short life. Most of her work was published posthumously, to widespread acclaim. Always concerned with the nature of individ...(展开全部)