This book argues that contractarianism is well suited as a political morality and explores the implications of deploying it in this way. It promises to revive contractarianism as a viable political theory, breaking it free from its Rawlsian moorings while taking seriously the long-standing objections to it.It’s natural to think that the state owes things to its people: physical security, public health and sanitation services, and a functioning judiciary, for example. But is there a...

Attorneys need high-performing teams that can work well under pressure. But in many organizations, especially large firms, attorneys are often left on their own to figure out how to build their teams, resulting in inconsistent and haphazard management that makes even the best performers feel like cogs in a machine. Many senior leaders view this as inevitable, writing off high attrition as a cost of doing business.The best lawyers see the world differently. In All Rise,

Attorneys need high-performing teams that can work well under pressure. But in many organizations, especially large firms, attorneys are often left on their own to figure out how to build their teams, resulting in inconsistent and haphazard management that makes even the best performers feel like cogs in a machine. Many senior leaders view this as inevitable, writing off high attrition as a cost of doing business. The best lawyers see the world differently. In All Rise, Ben Sachs explains ...

Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Benjamin Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if it is conceived of as an explanatory project and carried out accordingly. The book goes on to show that the most prominent forms of moral monism—consequentialism, Kantianism, and contract...

Dieser Band nimmt die Leser mit auf eine sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Reise durch die Romania − von Portugal, Spanien und Italien über Frankreich und Rumänien − und über ihre Grenzen hinaus bis nach Irland und Kanada. Den Schwerpunkt bilden dabei Untersuchungen aus den Gebieten der Grammatik-, Lexikographie-, Sprachlehr- und Sprachwissenschaftsgeschichte, welche durch literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven ergänzt werden. Die inhaltlich wie sprachlich vielfältigen Beitr...

Mondialisation, respect de l’environnement et réduction des ressources, développement du numérique et nouvelles technologies, crise sanitaire et incertitude de l’avenir, individualisation et recherche identitaire…Le 21e siècle a vu émerger de nouvelles exigences et de nouvelles contraintes de travail.Dans ce contexte incertain et complexe, l’efficacité et le plaisir au travail paraissent bien difficiles à concilier.Et l’illusion créée par les nouvelles injonctions a...

This volume addresses the critical psychoanalytic issue of effective listening. While this issue has been discussed widely in the literature, most often the discussions are from the standpoint of technique. Listening to Others is among the first texts to consider the listening process from the so-called 'two-person' perspective-i.e., that which is aligned with intersubjective, interpersonal, and relational theories. The contributors to this volume all are well-known experts in con...