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Free Download Montaigne’s Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais by Biancamaria Fontana
English | January 23, 2008 | ISBN: 0691131228 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.5 MB
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure-the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in midlife to write his private, philosophical, and apolitical Essais. But, as Biancamaria Fontana argues in Montaigne’s Politics, a novel, vivid account of the political meaning of the Essais in the context of Montaigne’s life and times, his retirement from the Bordeaux parliament in 1570 "could be said to have marked the beginning, rather than the end, of his public career." He later served as mayor of Bordeaux and advisor to King Henry of Navarre, and, as Fontana argues, Montaigne’s Essais very much reflect his ongoing involvement and preoccupation with contemporary politics-particularly the politics of France’s civil wars between Catholics and Protestants.

Free Download Morality, authority, and law By Darwall, Stephen L
2014 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 0199662592 | PDF | 2 MB
Stephen Darwall presents a series of essays that explore and extend the Second-Person Standpoints argument that central moral concepts are irreducibly second personal, entailing mutual accountability and the authority to address demands to one another (and ourselves). He illustrates the second-personal frameworks power to illuminate a wide variety of issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Section I concerns morality: its distinctiveness among normative concepts, the metaethics of bipolar obligations (owed to someone); the relation between moral obligations form and the substance of our obligations; whether the fact that an action is wrong is itself a reason against action (as opposed to simply entailing that sufficient moral reasons independently exist); and whether morality requires general principles or might be irreducibly particularistic. Section II consists of two essays on autonomy: one discussing the relation between Kants autonomy of the will and the right to autonomy, and another arguing that what makes an agents desires and will reason-giving is not the basis of internal practical reasons in desire, but the dignity of persons and shared second-personal authority. Section III focuses on the nature of authority and the law. Two essays take up Joseph Razs influential normal justification thesis and argue that it fails to capture authoritys second-personal nature, without which authority cannot create exclusionaryand preemptivereasons. The final two essays concern law. The first sketches the insights that a second-personal approach can provide into the nature of law and the grounds of distinctions between different parts of law. The second shows how a second-personal framework can be used to develop the civil recourse theory in the law of torts.

Free Download Steven D. Smith, "Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law "
English | ISBN: 026820120X | 2021 | 290 pages | EPUB | 674 KB

Free Download Steven D. Smith, "Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law "
English | ISBN: 026820120X | 2021 | 290 pages | EPUB | 674 KB

Free Download Peter Adamson, "Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 0268203393 | 2022 | 194 pages | EPUB | 794 KB

Free Download Juliana Bastos Marques, "Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions"
English | ISBN: 1350269441 | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB | 656 KB
This book examines authority in discourse from ancient to modern historians, while also presenting instances of current subversions of the classical rhetorical ethos. Ancient rhetoric set out the rules of authority in discourse, and directly affected the claims of Greek and Roman historians to truth. These working principles were consolidated in modern tradition, but not without modifications. The contemporary world, in its turn, subverts in many new ways the weight of the author’s claim to legitimacy and truth, through the active role of the audiences.

Free Download The Intentional Leader: How Inner Authority Can Unleash Strong Leadership (Audiobook)
English | March 15, 2022 | ASIN: B09TVB2DC9 | MP3@64 kbps | 7h 24m | 203.56 MB
Author: Tim Hebert
Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies
In The Intentional Leader, Tim Hebert explores the various actions that define and shape leadership. From those decisive moments in which a difficult decision must be made, to the unguarded moments when our emotional, authentic selves manifest themselves for better or worse.

Free Download Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CL7QVZGR | 2023 | 12 hours and 46 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Noam Chomsky
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
A wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this tumultuous moment. In these informative interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky addresses the rapid deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling social fabric and fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal; the illegitimate authority of the Supreme Court, in particular its decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade; and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Chomsky also untangles the roots of the War in Ukraine, the diplomatic tensions among the United States, China, and Russia, and considers the need for climate action on an international scale.

Free Download Katherine Weikert, "Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 "
English | ISBN: 178327512X | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 20 MB
SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain’s Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest.

Free Download Kyle C. Lincoln, "A Constellation of Authority: Castilian Bishops and the Secular Church During the Reign of Alfonso VIII "
English | ISBN: 0271094370 | 2023 | 230 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
During the long reign of Alfonso VIII, Castilian bishops were crusaders, castellans, cathedral canons, and collegiate officers, and they served as powerful intermediaries between the pope and the king of Castile. In A Constellation of Authority, Kyle C. Lincoln traces the careers of a septet of these bishops and uses this history to fill in much of what really happened in thirteenth-century Castile.