..., personal computers, and information networks was complicit with the individualism of neoliberal and conservative ideology during the 1970s and 1980s. The chapter questions whether there exists a digital utopia that can promote collectivity instead of uncontrolled individualism and capitalist values. hacker...

...This book looks at the conflict between two very different understandings of identity: the more traditional view that an identity carries with it certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view in which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact to “judgments of value...

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... of fatalism that “human beings, agents, have no control over what is going to happen.” However, Wallace contested the connection between the two, saying that “contingent future-tensed propositions [can] take standard truth-values without doing violence to [one's] belief that parts of the universe enjoy...

...; the evolution of values and their cultural implications; the institutionalization of globalization versus the growing chaos; regional integration; the role of nongovernmental organizations; the natural environment; demographic processes and migration; poverty and social inequality; the knowledge-based economy...

...This chapter discusses how the language of choice has progressed in pregnancy films and put into the service of pro-life family values. Even while these films support a woman's right to choose, they still expect women to choose babies and not abortion. The question of women's reproductive choice...

... of cosmopolitanism's ancient and Enlightenment roots, the book confronts the philosophical difficulties of defending universal ideals and the implications for ethics and political theory. In morality as in politics, theorists have generally focused first on discovering universal values and second...

... more and more modernist content to creep into their exhibitions, and by 1959 even President Eisenhower defended the challenging works included in the American National Exhibition in Moscow and publicly endorsed artistic freedom as a basic American value. Advancing American Art exhibition art Circus...

...This chapter examines the State Department's programs to distribute books among foreign audiences (particularly in central and eastern Europe)—books which were carefully chosen to convey American values or to further policy priorities. Unlike the art program, the book programs remained quite...

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...This chapter explores the notions of fact and value, first by recalling the relevant aspects of what presented itself as a given personal identity at the time of setting out on a university career. The chapter then considers what exactly is to be counted as coming under the head of “values...

...This concluding chapter considers several postscripts concerning facts and values in relation to personal identity in general and Jewish identity in particular. It first examines how the language of someone's most “natural” expression can come to form part of his/her essential or most intimate...

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... at the top and percolates throughout the organization through daily decisions, challenges, and crises. The values of a company are at the core of its culture, as they establish the standards to achieve its goals. At Berkshire, these values first began to take shape from the acquisition criteria Buffett...

... values to take a step back and begin to view the impetus for terrorism from the perspective of the terrorists themselves. Decision making within terrorist ranks are complicated affairs, influenced by myriad social, political, and even personal considerations. Yet certain commonalities arise within...

..., the Ocean's trilogy presents a utopian allegory of America at the turn of the new century, in which American values need to be renegotiated in the face of globalised and multinational business practices. Despite their emphasis on criminal activity, the heists, in these cases, are only excuses...

... in Europe, in the period 1946—1959; (ii) to identify, synthesize, and analyze the rhetoric surrounding these projects, in particular how it attached seemingly incongruous American values such as freedom and individualism to modernist artworks; and (iii) to suggest that this rhetoric worked to “swerve...

... is: can attractive representations of pregnancy also be empowering to women even as they promote traditional family values? feminism freedom maternity motherhood patriarchy poverty women Young Iris Marion abjection baby bumps celebrity Davis Angela de Beauvoir Simone family values French...

... of Concerned Scientists external policies external effects taxes cap and trade regulation activism socially responsible investment shopping your values legal liability Long before external effects were termed as such, they were recognized as a problem and subject to regulation. As far back...

...This chapter discusses Sylvester Stallone's Rambo films (1982–2008). The Rambo series moves from stories involving a rebellious questioning of the U.S. government, the war and American cultural values (First Blood, 1982), to a rewriting...