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Free Download Paul T. Gibbs, "Trusting in the University: The Contribution of Temporality and Trust to a Praxis of Higher Learning"
English | 2004 | pages: 217 | ISBN: 904816642X, 140202343X | PDF | 0,8 mb
The world in which we learn is changing rapidly. That rapidity is driven by a range of influences, conveniently, but inadequately, clustered under the rubric of globalisation. . The context in which globalisation and education is often linked is that of progression, progression realisable through technology, the free movement of finances and the optimum utilisation of human capital. To fuel this progression, formal educational institutions have grown, adapted and changed to provide highly skilled ‘outputs’ to satisfy demand. Along the way, I will argue, the questioning, learning, reflecting and worthiness of formal education has been sacrificed for instrumentality, compliance and self-interest. This is seen throughout the educational system but this book concentrates on higher education and, more importantly, higher educational institutions that are known as universities. I will try to argue for a distinctive place for universities that does not resist progression but defines it differently from that allowable by the market. I propose a university system where students and faculty are together allowed to ‘let learn’ who they might become, rather than realise their being as the artefact of economic imperatives. I accept from the very beginning that this might be incompatible with universities being in the world of commerce and industry, in fact, I demand that they are not! However, my text is not a polemic against the capitalist entrapment of education per se but for the development of centres that question whilst engaging with the realities of our existence.

Free Download Power, love and evil : contribution to a philosophy of the damaged By Cristaudo, Wayne
2008 | 180 Pages | ISBN: 9042023384 | PDF | 2 MB
Love and evil are real – they are substances or force fields which contain us as constituent parts. Of all the powers of life they are the two most pregnant with meaning, hence the most generative of what is specifically human. Love and evil stand in the closest relationship to each other: evil is both what destroys love and what forces more love out of us; it is, as Augustine astutely grasped, privative (requiring something to negate) but it is also born out of misdirected love. Breaking with naive realist and post-modern dogmas about the nature of the real, this book provides the basis for a philosophy of generative action as it draws upon examples from philosophy, literature, religion and popular culture. While this book has a sympathetic ear for ancient and traditional narratives about the meaning of life, it offers a philosophy appropriate for our times and our crises. It is particularly directed at readers who are seeking for new ways to think about our world and self-making, and who are as dissatisfied with post-Nietzschean and post- Marxian 20th century social theory as they are by more traditional philosophical and naturalistic accounts of human being. Wayne Cristaudo is Associate Professor of European Studies at the University of Hong Kong. His publications include The Metaphysics of Science and Freedom: from Descartes to Kant to Hegel (Ashgate), This Great Beast: Progress and the Modern State (with Bob Catley) (Ashgate), Great Ideas in the Western Literary Canon (with Peter Poiana) (University of America Press) and Messianism, Apocalypse and Redemption in 20th Century German Thought (Introduction by Wayne Cristaudo and edited with Wendy Baker) (ATF). He has also published articles in international journals and chapters in books on Marx, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Eric Voegelin, Ernst Cassirer, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig

Free Download Le Néant: Contribution à l’histoire du non-être dans la philosophie occidentale sous la direction de Claude Romano, Jérôme Laurent
Français | 5 juin 2010 | ISBN: 2130582486 | True EPUB | 568 pages | 2.2 MB
Si le néant n’a pas de propriétés , selon la formule de Malebranche, a-t-il cependant une histoire ? C’est à cette paradoxale question que le présent livre s’attache en cherchant à déployer les différentes significations de ce qui n’est pas, du radicalement non-étant parménidien jusqu’à l’être selon Heidegger qui, n’étant rien d’étant, est le Rien (Nichts) rendant possible la manifestation de l’étant.

Free Download The Future of Indian Politics: A Contribution to the Understanding, of Present-Day Problems (Classic Reprint) By Annie Besant
2018 | 366 Pages | ISBN: 0331347350 | PDF | 11 MB
Excerpt from The Future of Indian Politics: A Contribution to the Understanding, of Present-Day ProblemsThis booklet is intended to offer to those interested in the fate of India and Great Britain, a picture showing the problems that India has to solve in the near future in connec tion with self-determination and self-govern ment, and in her decision between solitary Independence and Partnership in a Common wealth of Free Nations, under the British Crown. The two last chapters deal with these; the background, necessary for the understanding and the decision of these two supreme questions, determining the future Of both Nations, is painted in with care, so as to contain the vital facts, and those only, which have led to the parting of the ways, indicated in the problems An Introduction gives A bird’s-eye View of the relations between India and Britain, from their first importantcontact to the end of the East India Company Rule. Step by Step takes us from the first National Congress to the outbreak of the War. A New Departure tells of the Congress Of 1914, Indians in the War, and the demand for the recognition Of India as a component part Of the Empire. The Great Agitation takes up the next two chapters, and carries us to the coming to India of the Secretary Of State. The New Spirit in India marks the causes of her Changed attitude. The Struggle over the Reforms tells of the Death of the Old Congress and the Reformed Legislatures.About the ✅PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Free Download Contribution to the Correction of the Public’s Judgments on the French Revolution (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, edited and translated by Jeffrey Church, Anna Marisa Schön
English | March 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1438482175, 1438482167 | True PDF | 250 pages | 1.8 MB
The reception history of the French Revolution in France and England is well documented among Anglophone scholars; however, the debate over the Revolution in Germany is much less well known. Fichte’s Contribution played an important role in this debate. Presented here for the first time in English, Fichte’s work provides a distinctive synthesis of Locke’s "possessive individualism," Rousseau’s general will, and Kant’s moral philosophy. This eclectic blend results in an unusual rights theory that at times veers close to a form of anarchism.

Free Download Public Goods, Sustainable Development and the Contribution of Business
by Roland Bardy, Arthur Rubens
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1527563103 | 333 Pages | True PDF | 2.26 MB

Free Download Murat Arik, "Economic Impact or Contribution: Essays on Business and Community Relations"
English | ISBN: 1498516955 | 2015 | 180 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Economic Impact or Contribution contributes to the applied regional economic literature by providing a framework for handling a diverse set of projects and providing detailed case studies of fieldwork regarding the health care industry, higher education institutions, the nonprofit sector, infrastructure investment, and a major musical entertainment event. Economic Impact or Contribution accomplishes three major tasks by answering the following questions: What are the differences between the economic concepts used in economic versus fiscal assessment studies? How can we structure an economic and business issue or challenge? How can we create a research product that helps the project’s sponsors solve their problem? This bookhas emerged as an answer to many research-related questions in dealing with regional business and economic issues and challenges.

Free Download Women’s Contribution to Science and Technology through ICWES Conferences by Monique Frize , Claire Deschênes , Ruby Heap
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 (2024 Edition) | 486 Pages | ISBN : 3031337999 | 13.8 MB
This book discusses the legacy of the conference series The International Conferences of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), which spans the second half of the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the twenty-first. The book first discusses how, at a time when there were few women engineers and scientists, a group of women organized a conference, in June 1964 in New York, which attracted 486 women. They presented their scientific achievements and discussed how to attract more women in STEM. This effort was carried out by volunteers, continuing the ICWES conferences over a period of 59 years. The authors discuss the organizers, the hosting societies, the scientific content, the changes in issues over time, and how the continuity has endured. The authors also discuss the importance of global involvement, shown through past conferences in locations such as USA, UK, Italy, Poland, France, India, Ivory Coast, Hungary, Japan, Canada, and Korea. The authors also outline how the efforts were aided by the development of a not for profit Canadian corporation, the International Conference of Women in Sciences and engineering (INWES), which ensures the continuation of the conference series. Claire Deschênes and Monique Frize ensured that the conference database was digitalized and is now available at the Canadian Archive of Women in STEM, University of Ottawa Library, with the hope that researchers will continue to explore this rich database. As an important part of the Women in Science and Engineering book series, the work hopes to inspire women and men, girls and boys to study and work in STEM fields. This book is important historically because it documents a unique adventure created by women in STEM through vision and leadership. Their efforts established modes of networking and sharing their contributions in science, technology, and on gender issues.

Free Download Daniel Krob, "System Architecture and Complexity: Contribution of Systems of Systems to Systems Thinking"
English | 2020 | pages: 298 | ISBN: 1786305615 | PDF | 14,2 mb
The emergence of a true systemic science – the systemic one – capable of rigorously addressing the many problems posed by the design and management of the evolution of modern complex systems is therefore urgently needed if wants to be able to provide satisfactory answers to the many profoundly systemic challenges that humanity will have to face at the dawn of the third millennium. This emergence is of course not easy because one can easily understand that the development of the systemic is mechanically confronted with all the classical disciplines which can all pretend to bring part of the explanations necessary to the understanding of a system and which do not naturally see a good eye a new discipline claim to encompass them in a holistic approach … The book of Jacques Printz is therefore an extremely important contribution to this new emerging scientific and technical discipline: it is indeed first of all one of the very few "serious" works published in French and offering a good introduction to the systemic. It gives an extremely broad vision of this field, taking a thread given by the architecture of systems, in other words by the part of the systemic that is interested in the structure of systems and their design processes, which allows everyone to fully understand the issues and issues of the systemic. We can only encourage the reader to draw all the quintessence of the masterful work of Jacques Printz which mixes historical reminders explaining how the systemic emerged, introduction to key concepts of the systemic and practical examples to understand the nature and the scope of the ideas introduced.

Free Download Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicology By Dirk Geeraerts
1997 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0198236522 | PDF | 11 MB
Diachronic Prototype Semantics is concerned with the theory of explanation of changes in word meaning. The author demonstrates the explanatory value of the prototype model of meaning, in which the distinction between central and peripheral senses of a word is crucial.