Fiona Whelan: 2 books
by Kevin Ryan, Fiona Whelan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal – the first exemplified by Isaiah Berlin’s contrast between negative and positive liberty, and the second by Philip Pettit’s neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination. Located within the...
The Making of Manners and Morals in Twelfth-Century England
The Book of the Civilised Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
How different are we from those in the past? Or, how different do we think we are from those in the past? Medieval people were more dirty and unhygienic than us – as novels, TV, and film would have us believe – but how much truth is there in this notion? This book seeks to challenge some of these...