Author: Committee on Coping with Increasing Demands on Gov
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: increasing, demands, meeting, centers, data, government
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2003-04-04
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0309087422
ISBN-13: 9780309087421

Environmental data centers have been successfully acquiring, disseminating, and archiving data for decades. However, the increasing volume and number of data sets, coupled with greater demands from more diverse users, are making it difficult for data centers to maintain the record of environmental change. This workshop report focuses on technological approaches that could enhance the ability of environmental data centers to deal with these challenges, and improve the ability of users to find and use information held in data centers.

Author: Tim Mulgan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: consequentialism, demands
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-12-22
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0199286973
ISBN-13: 9780199286973

Tim Mulgan presents a penetrating examination of consequentialism, the theory that human behavior must be judged in terms of the goodness or badness of its consequences. The problem with consequentialism is that it seems unreasonably demanding, as leaving the agent no room for our own aims and interests. In response, Mulgan offers his own version of consequentialism, one that we can live with.

Author: Rudiger Bittner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: demands, reason
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1989-04-28
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521377102
ISBN-13: 9780521377102

Why should we act morally? What justification is to be found in moral demands? This lucid, pithy, and eminently readable book examines the arguments in favor of the claims of moral demands to be found in contemporary ethical theory, arguments deriving from Kant’s attempt to provide a foundation for morality.

Author: Meira Levinso
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: education, liberal, demands
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-04-18
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0199250448
ISBN-13: 9780199250448

What should the aims of education be in a liberal society? Who should exercise control over education? How can children be taught to become good citizens of a pluralistic state? The Demands of Liberal Education seeks to answer these questions by drawing on political theory, philosophy of education, and empirical research to develop a liberal theory of children’s education. Author Meira Levinson argues that contrary to the assumptions of many philosophers, educators, parents, and politicians, the liberal state is obligated as a matter of justice to help all children develop the capacity f

Author: Jeffrey Blustein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: memory, demands, moral
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521709725
ISBN-13: 9780521709729

There is considerable contemporary interest in memory, both within the academy and in the public sphere. Little has been written by moral philosophers on the subject, however. In this timely book, Jeffrey Blustein explores the moral aspects and implications of memory, both personal and collective. He provides a systematic and philosophically rigorous account of a morality of memory, focusing on the value of memory, its relationship to identity, and the responsibilities associated with memory.

Author: Frederic Will
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: literature, greek, demands, generic
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 1976-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 9062034470
ISBN-13: 9789062034475

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Author: Nancy L. Rosenblum
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: faith, demands, citizenship, obligations
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2000-04-04
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 069100708X
ISBN-13: 9780691007083

Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are the challenges taken up in Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume suggest that two important shifts have altered the balance between the competing obligations of citizenship and faith: the growth of religious pluralism and the escalating calls of religious groups for some measure of autonomy or recognition from democratic majorities. The authors--political theorist