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Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2009
ISBN 10: 1120124336ISBN 13: 9781120124333
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Published by Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 0195396170ISBN 13: 9780195396171
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for language-using human beings. There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for language-using human beings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Oxford University Press, USA 2010-01-12, 2010
ISBN 10: 0195396170ISBN 13: 9780195396171
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
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Published by New York: [1969], Friendship Press, 1969
Seller: Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, U.S.A.
Softcover. 191 p.; 18 cm. `Generalizations about traditional Chinese civilization should be made with caution, generalizations about the Chinese people must be made with circumspection. Historically, China has been an extraordinarily complex civilization with a wide variety of subcultures. Yet a dominant feature of the Chinese political tradition has been the internal conviction that "China" constitutes a single entity. Cultural patterns, the common written language, classical texts, the fact that more than 90 percent of the population is ethnically Han Chinese.have combined to buttress the belief of the Chinese people that they constitute a cohesive group distinct from oursiders. Among themselves, however, the Chinese are acutely aware of local differences and patterns of regionalism that have long persisted. Even the casual outsider could see the contrast between the steady, camel-like Northerner and the darting, fish-like Southerner, impetuous and loquacious. The culturally advanced and equable province of Kiangsu, for example, evoked images of the arts of good living. The people of Kiangsi were the Scots of China: clannish, overfrugal, quarrelsome. The son of Shantung was sturdy, reliable and diligent, but unlikely to capture first place in the imperial examinations. The Hunanese were stubborn, tough soldiers and passionate lovers. Fukien faced the sea, and its separate river valleys were subregions of a physical and cultural province that in a sense turned its back on China to become the most sea-conscious section of the country.' (p. 26 f., by Bates) Good in spotted orig. orange wrapper.
Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2009
ISBN 10: 1120124336ISBN 13: 9781120124333
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Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2010
ISBN 10: 0195396170ISBN 13: 9780195396171
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Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
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Published by New York: Intl. Missionary Council [1947]., 1947
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Good dull orig.navy cloth, lower cover scratched, lt. dampmarked. xviii, [1], 604 p.; 23.5 cm. (Studies in the world mission of Christianity ; 6) [First printed in 1945] I.Problems of religious liberty today:case studies of most acute difficulty (1. Soviet Russia, 2. Moslem countries, 3. Spain), case studies of serious difficulty (4. Germany, 4a. German-occupied territories, 5. Fascist Italy, 7. Imperial Japan, 7. India, 8. Mexico, 9. Latin America), case studies of minor issues in liberty, survey of other areas, summary -- II. Problems of religious liberty in history, Christendom: 1. lands predominantly Roman Catholic or Protestant, 2. lands of the Orthodox churches; non-Christian societies: 3. lands of classical antiquity, 4. Moslem lands, 5. India, 6. China (note on Korea and Indo-China), 7. Japan; summary -- III. What is religious liberty? 1. definitions and specifications, 2.relations of church and state, 3. religious liberty in education, 4. rel. liberty in relation with general liberties, 5. rel.liberty and the position of a religious body both as to its own members and as to other religious bodies; summary -- IV. Grounds of religious liberty: 1. natural law and natural rights, 2. rel. liberty and the interests of the organized community, 3. religious liberty in terms of ethics and philosophy, 4. rel. liberty in terms of Christian theology and tradition, 5. position of Roman Catholic church, summary -- V. Religious liberty in law: 1. religious liberty in internatonal law, 2. constitutional provisions for religious liberty, summary -- VI. Conclusions and proposals: 1. selective review of the contemporary problem, 2. proposals in the field of religion, 3. proposals in the field of education and public opinion, 4. proposals in the field of government and law. 3rd printing edition. Binding is Hardcover.
Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
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Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
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Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
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Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011
ISBN 10: 0199829527ISBN 13: 9780199829521
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for language-using human beings. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Paul's Book Arcade Limited, New Zealand, 1964
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
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Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Clean blue cloth on boards with white titles. Thin light old sunning to top and bottom boards edges. Edges: light foxings. Eps: few only faint foxings; dj shadowing; name to ffep Few only faint few only foxings to margins. White space foot of one illustrated page with Castor Bay 12,13,14 & and an arrow. Otherwise clean contents. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 112p Dj: light soiling and foxings. Spine: faint sunning; head & foot with thin wear and chips. Head & foot of flaps spines with wear and chips.
Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
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Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Published by Prima Games, 2014
ISBN 10: 0804163405ISBN 13: 9780804163408
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Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
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Published by OUP Oxford, 2010
ISBN 10: 0199576912ISBN 13: 9780199576913
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