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A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life
Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international scientific community has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadl
Der Verweis auf natürliche Ordnungen ist eine Konstante in menschlichen Normsetzungen. Scheinbare Verletzungen des »Natürlichen« durch menschliche und nichtmenschliche Akteure rufen starke emotionale Reaktionen hervor: Staunen, Furcht oder Schrecken. Doch
"Gennem årtusinder er naturens autoritet blevet hidkaldt for at tjene mange formål: for at retfærdiggøre og fordømme slaveri, for at hylde amning og udskælde onani, for at ophøje det sublimes æstetik over det smukke og for at underbygge etiske fordri
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient
An award-winning history of the Enlightenment quest to devise a mathematical model of rationality What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Enlightenment mathematicians such as Blaise Pascal, Jakob Bernoulli, and Pierre Simon Laplace sought
A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life