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 Free Download Thomas S. Szasz By Jeffrey A. Schaler (editor), Henry Zvi Lothane (editor), Richard E. Vatz (editor) 2017 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 141286514X | EPUB | 1 MB As it entered the 1960s, American institutional psychiatry was thriving, with a high percentage of medical students choosing the field. But after Thomas S. Szasz published his masterwork in 1961, The Myth of Mental Illness, the psychiatric world was thrown into chaos.Szasz enlightened the world about what he called the "myth of mental illness." His point was not that no one is mentally ill, or that people labeled as mentally ill do not exist. Instead he believed that diagnosing people as mentally ill was inconsistent with the rules governing pathology and the classification of disease. He asserted that the diagnosis of mental illness is a type of social control, not medical science.The editors were uniquely close to Szasz, and here they gather, for the first time, a group of their peers―experts on psychiatry, psychology, rhetoric, and semiotics―to elucidate Szasz's body of work. Thomas S. Szasz: The Man and His Ideas examines his work and legacy, including new material on the man himself and the seeds he planted. They discuss Szasz's impact on their thinking about the distinction between physical and mental illness, addiction, the insanity plea, schizophrenia, and implications for individual freedom and responsibility. This important volume offers insight into and understanding of a man whose ideas were far beyond his time.  Free Download Thomas Reid and Scepticism: His Reliabilist Response By Philip De Bary; Philip de Bary 2004 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415263395 | EPUB | 1 MB This book bears witness to the current reawakening of interest in Reid's philosophy. It first examines Reid's negative attack on the Way of Ideas, and finds him to be a devastating critic of his predecessors. Turning to the positive part of Reid's programme, the author then develops a fresh interpretation of Reid as an anticipator of present-day 'reliabilism'. Throughout the book, Reid is presented as a powerful thinker with much to say to philosophers in the twenty-first century. The book will be of interest not only to Reid scholars and historians of philosophy, but also to specialists and students in contemporary epistemology.  Free Download Brian Kilmeade, "Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History" English | ISBN: 1591848067 | 2015 | 256 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB "Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger." -Brad Thor  Free Download Thomas Hobbes und die Person des Staates: Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Christian Neumeier By Skinner, Quentin 2017 | 68 Pages | ISBN: 3428152956 | PDF | 1 MB Was bezeichnet der Begriff Staat und brauchen wir ihn heute noch als einen Ordnungsbegriff der politischen Theorie? Quentin Skinner geht dieser Frage in der zweiten Carl-Schmitt-Vorlesung nach, um zwei verbreitete Missverständnisse aus der Welt zu schaffen. Der Staat ist weder mit der Regierung gleichzusetzen noch ist er historisch obsolet geworden. Skinner analysiert zu diesem Zweck die erste und zugleich berühmteste Theorie der Unterscheidung von Staat und Regierung: Thomas Hobbes' Vorstellung des Staates als einer eigenen Person, die von Herrschern wie Beherrschten gleichermaßen unterschieden werden muss. Sie baut auf einer neuen Theorie politischer Repräsentation auf. Repräsentation ist danach nicht als Verhältnis von Ur- und Abbild zu denken, sondern als Autorisation des Souveräns durch die Subjekte. Skinner untersucht darüber hinaus die Rezeption von Hobbes' Theorie bei Pufendorf, Vattel und Blackstone und ihre vernichtende Kritik durch die Utilitaristen.Thomas Hobbes and the Person of the StateWhat do we mean when we refer to the state? Is the state a concept political theorists still need to concern themselves with today? Quentin Skinner explores these questions in the second Carl Schmitt Lecture to elucidate a common misunderstanding. When we talk about states, we do not simply mean governments. Skinner analyses the first and to the present day most famous theory to make such a claim: Thomes Hobbes' concept of the state as a person, distinct from both rulers and ruled.  Free Download Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law By Kody W. Cooper 2018 | 342 Pages | ISBN: 0268103011 | EPUB | 1 MB Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action and the legally binding character of the practical requirements essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes's novel contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law philosophy than has been recognized. 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