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Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment

Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment
John Pittard, "Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190051817 | PDF | pages: 356 | 2.9 mb
The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs. For this reason, many have argued that the only rational response to religious disagreement is to adopt a religious skepticism that eschews confident religious belief. Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment contests this skeptical conclusion, explaining how it could be rational to maintain confident belief even in the face of the epistemic worries posed by disagreement. John Pittard argues against the commitment to rigorous epistemic impartiality that underlies the case for disagreement-motivated religious skepticism, while also critiquing approaches to disagreement that allow for the unproblematic privileging of one's first-person perspective. He emphasizes the importance of having rational insight into reasons that favor one's outlook; however, he challenges narrowly intellectualist accounts of insight,

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Dim Sum A Flour-forward approach to Traditional Favorites and Contemporary Creations

Dim Sum A Flour-forward approach to Traditional Favorites and Contemporary Creations
Janice Wong, Ma Jian Jun, "Dim Sum: A Flour-forward approach to Traditional Favorites and Contemporary Creations"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 9810778546 | PDF | pages: 143 | 29.0 mb
Chef Janice Wong's approach to cuisine is novel and innovative-she views familiar items in a different light, twisting and combining them in a unique way. In this book with dim sum expert Chef Ma Jian Jun, Chef Wong brings her unique concepts and presentation to the traditional Cantonese art of dim sum. Together they have pioneered a collection of over 90 traditional recipes as well as new creations incorporating both Chef Ma's impeccable craft and Chef Wong's pastry vision.

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Digital Technology The impact of digital technology for a sustainable future

Digital Technology The impact of digital technology for a sustainable future
Digital Technology: The impact of digital technology for a sustainable future by Laura May
English | November 14, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BMFXCMVX | 70 pages | EPUB | 0.23 Mb
It is the technology by which various information, whether data or data in the form of electronic signals, is transmitted between the continents of the world, without the latter affected by the length of the distance, and its resistance to interference and interference between waves of different sources, and it also guarantees the safety and confidentiality of that information.

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Differential Diagnosis of Fracture

Differential Diagnosis of Fracture
Differential Diagnosis of Fracture by Yingze Zhang
English | PDF | 2021 | 902 Pages | ISBN : 9811383383 | 124.2 MB
This book covers diagnostic images of common and rare fractures for nearly every part of the human body, based on a large number of clinical cases. The highlight of this book is that both of three-dimensional X-ray images and CT/MRI images of thousands of fracture cases are presented for comparison and further discussion, according to the framework of AO classification.

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Development Without Aid The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora

Development Without Aid The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora
Development Without Aid: The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora By David A. Phillips
2013 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0857283030 | PDF | 3 MB
"Development Without Aid" aims to opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world's poorest countries. Growing up inAfrica the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique ofaid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that could propel the poorest countries out of poverty. The book aims to help move the discussion beyond foreign aid. It examines the rapid growth of the world's diasporas as aresource of increasing strength in terms of both financial and human capital, and considers how far such a resource might supersede aid. The key point is that diaspora initiatives are a type of indigenous resource flowing through private initiative, not an alien resource flowing through public bureaucratic organizations. The book usesextensive research evidence to explore the possibilities for a resumption of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development with the assistance of the world's diasporas.

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Desert Combat

Desert Combat
Desert Combat by Robert Jackson
English | August 1, 2016 | ISBN: 0708944302 | 250 pages | EPUB | 0.24 Mb
North Africa, 1941: In one last futile attempt to stop Rommel's newly formed Panzer Army advancing further, the British Eighth Army is making a stand at the coastal fortress of Tobruk. If they are unsuccessful, the Germans will have a clear path to the strategically important Suez Canal.

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Derrida and Technology Life, Politics, and Religion

Derrida and Technology Life, Politics, and Religion
Derrida and Technology: Life, Politics, and Religion By Björn Sjöstrand
2021 | 365 Pages | ISBN: 3030834069 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is the first monograph that takes a comprehensive approach to Jacques Derrida as a philosopher of technology. It refines and complements his mainstream image as a philosopher of language and deconstructionist of classical literary and philosophical texts. This volume outlines the key features of Derrida's alternative philosophy of technology, a philosophy which Sjöstrand argues, avoids the problems associated with, on the one hand, a Heideggerian orientation, which completely separates thinking and technology and, on the other, an empirically oriented "post-phenomenology" that can be said to be hegemonic within the field today.Based on a sustained interpretation of Derrida, and a robust, coherent philosophy of technology, aphenomenology of technologyis developed that, in a radical way, extends the concept of technology to cover the entire field of phenomenology. This placesthe technologicalnot in opposition to humanity, but rather always already in close proximity to man and, consequently, to life, ethics, politics, democracy and religion. Strikingly, this important aspect of Derrida's thinking is only rarely analyzed or discussed by his many exegetes. This text appeals to graduates and researchers working on Derrida, phenomenology, and the philosophy of technology.

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Democratic Vanguardism Modernity, Intervention, and the Making of the Bush Doctrine

Democratic Vanguardism Modernity, Intervention, and the Making of the Bush Doctrine
Democratic Vanguardism: Modernity, Intervention, and the Making of the Bush Doctrine By Michael Harland
2013 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0739179691 | EPUB | 1 MB
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, transformed the way in which Americans and their leaders viewed the world. The tragic events of that day helped give rise to a foreign policy strategy commonly referred to as the "Bush Doctrine." At the heart of this doctrine lie a series of claims about the need to encourage liberal democracy as the antidote to jihadist terrorism. President George W. Bush proclaimed in a variety of addresses that democracy now represented the "single surviving model" of political life to which all people aspired. In the course of making this argument, President Bush linked his policies to an overarching "teleology" of progress. This discourse suggested that the United States might use force to hasten the emergence of liberal norms and institutions in rogue states. With a sense of irony, some commentators soon referred to the Bush administration's position as "Leninist" because of its determination to bring about the so-called "end of history" today. Yet, surprisingly, these critics had little more to add. This book assesses in greater depth the Bush administration's claim to comprehend the purpose of historical progress. Developing a concept termed "democratic vanguardism," this study investigates the idea of liberal modernity, the role of the United States as a force for democracy, and the implications of using military intervention in the service of idealistic ends. It examines disputes among political theorists, public intellectuals, and elected statesmen that help to enrich our understanding of the United States' efforts under President Bush to bend history to its will.