Reflections on the presidency by insiders and outsiders. Table of Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Presidents I Have Known: Reflections on Political Leadership, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.; The President and the Internal Revenue Service, The Honorable Mortimer Caplin; Presidential Advisors, Personnel and the Johnson Presidency, The Honorable John Macy; The American Presidency Viewed from Britain and Australia,...

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Focuses on foreign policy. Table of Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson, Director, White Burkett Miller Center; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; The President and the National Security Process, Robert J. Pranger, the American Enterprise Institute; The President and the National Security Council Advisor, McGeorge Bundy, former President of the Ford Foundation and NSC advisor under JFK; Foreign Policy in the Eighties: The President and the International...

John Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and enduring influence. Yet Mill's apparent victory in the marketplace of ideas has numbed us to the power of his arguments. To many readers today, his views can seem utterly familiar, even banal. Sharing insights from teaching Mill for many years, the eminent philosopher Philip Kitcher makes a cogent case for why we should read this nineteenth-century thinker...

Plongez-vous dans l'analyse du bonheur digne de l'homme dans L'Utilitarisme de John Stuart Mill pour approfondir votre compréhension de l’œuvre! Que retenir du bonheur digne de l'homme dans L'Utilitarisme, l'œuvre qui défend le « principe d'utilité »? Retrouvez toutes les subtilités de ce concept dans un commentaire original et complet pour approfondir votre réflexion sur ce livre. Vous trouverez dans cette fiche : • Une introduction...

The eternal perennial enigma the human mind has been encountering is the meaning of life and its place in the universe. On this subject, science and spirituality remained in discord with each other particularly for the last couple of centuries. The Theory of Relativity followed by quantum mechanics changed the worldview of traditional mindset altogether. The postulates of quantum physics paved the way for growing interest in philosophical spirituality....

John Stuart Mill's resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this 1859 treatise. Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the publication of this enduring work which applies an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state which to this day remains well known and studied. Mills (1806-1873), a British economist, philosopher, and ethical theorist whose argument...