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Small Comforts for Hard Times : Humanists on Public Policy / Florian Stuber, Michael Mooney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1977]Copyright date: ©1977Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231928267
  • 9780231890656
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Gutmann, James -- Foreword -- Introduction / Stuber, Florian -- Justice and Human Equality -- 1. Justice-Compensatory and Distributive / Dearie, Herbert A. -- 2. Equality, Race, and Preferential Treatment / Freund, Paul A. -- 3. The Costs of Equality / Nisbet, Robert A. -- 4. The Costs of Inequality: In Response to Robert A. Nisbet / Gans, Herbert J. -- 5. Justice, Equality, and the Economic System / Vickrey, William S. -- 6. Equality and Fraternity: A Note on Subjective Realities / DeMott, Benjamin -- Private Rights and the Public Good -- 7. Private Rights and the Public Good / Frankel, Charles -- 8. Public Rights and Private Interests: In Response to Charles Frankel / Arendt, Hannah -- 9. On Privacy and Community / Capouya, Emilie -- 10. Do Rocks Have Rights? Thoughts on Environmental Ethics / Nash, Roderick -- Technology and the Ideal of Human Progress -- 11. Living with Scarcity / Shinn, Roger L. -- 12. The Technology of Life and Death / Gaylin, Willard -- 13. Biomedical Progress and the Limits of Human Health / Callahan, Daniel -- 14. Technology and the Structuring of Cities / Billington, Dauid P. -- 15. The Aesthetics of Technology: In Response to David P. Billington / Salvadori, Mario G. -- War and the Social Order -- 16. On National Frontiers: Ethnic Homogeneity and Pluralism / McNeill, William H. -- 17. The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem / Mayer, Arno J. -- 18. Reflections on War, Utopias, and Temporary Systems / Hansot, Elisabeth -- Education and the Good Society -- 19. The University and American Society / Pierson, George W. -- 20. The University, Society, and the Critical Temper: In Response to George W. Pierson / Bary, Wm. Theodore de -- 21. Some Questions in General Education Today / Marcus, Steven -- 22. Some Inconsistent Educational Aims / O'Neill, Onora -- 23. The Disestablished Humanities / Park, Rosemary -- 24. A View from the Ivory Tower: In Response to Rosemary Park / Hanning, Robert W. -- The Humanities and Public Policy -- 25. A Philosophic Perspective / Edel, Abraham -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Presents twenty-five papers written by different professionals from historians, philosophers, legal experts, political scientists, civil engineers to examine the aesthetics of technology and science.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Gutmann, James -- Foreword -- Introduction / Stuber, Florian -- Justice and Human Equality -- 1. Justice-Compensatory and Distributive / Dearie, Herbert A. -- 2. Equality, Race, and Preferential Treatment / Freund, Paul A. -- 3. The Costs of Equality / Nisbet, Robert A. -- 4. The Costs of Inequality: In Response to Robert A. Nisbet / Gans, Herbert J. -- 5. Justice, Equality, and the Economic System / Vickrey, William S. -- 6. Equality and Fraternity: A Note on Subjective Realities / DeMott, Benjamin -- Private Rights and the Public Good -- 7. Private Rights and the Public Good / Frankel, Charles -- 8. Public Rights and Private Interests: In Response to Charles Frankel / Arendt, Hannah -- 9. On Privacy and Community / Capouya, Emilie -- 10. Do Rocks Have Rights? Thoughts on Environmental Ethics / Nash, Roderick -- Technology and the Ideal of Human Progress -- 11. Living with Scarcity / Shinn, Roger L. -- 12. The Technology of Life and Death / Gaylin, Willard -- 13. Biomedical Progress and the Limits of Human Health / Callahan, Daniel -- 14. Technology and the Structuring of Cities / Billington, Dauid P. -- 15. The Aesthetics of Technology: In Response to David P. Billington / Salvadori, Mario G. -- War and the Social Order -- 16. On National Frontiers: Ethnic Homogeneity and Pluralism / McNeill, William H. -- 17. The Lower Middle Class as Historical Problem / Mayer, Arno J. -- 18. Reflections on War, Utopias, and Temporary Systems / Hansot, Elisabeth -- Education and the Good Society -- 19. The University and American Society / Pierson, George W. -- 20. The University, Society, and the Critical Temper: In Response to George W. Pierson / Bary, Wm. Theodore de -- 21. Some Questions in General Education Today / Marcus, Steven -- 22. Some Inconsistent Educational Aims / O'Neill, Onora -- 23. The Disestablished Humanities / Park, Rosemary -- 24. A View from the Ivory Tower: In Response to Rosemary Park / Hanning, Robert W. -- The Humanities and Public Policy -- 25. A Philosophic Perspective / Edel, Abraham -- Notes -- Index

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Presents twenty-five papers written by different professionals from historians, philosophers, legal experts, political scientists, civil engineers to examine the aesthetics of technology and science.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)