I Acted From Principle

Author : William Marcellus McPheeters
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557287953
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Acted from Principle written by William Marcellus McPheeters and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Civil War, Dr. William McPheeters was a distinguished physician in St. Louis, conducting unprecedented public-health research, forging new medical standards, and organizing the state's first professional associations. But Missouri was a volatile border state. Under martial law, Union authorities kept close watch on known Confederate sympathizers. McPheeters was followed, arrested, threatened, and finally, in 1862, given an ultimatum: sign an oath of allegiance to the Union or go to federal prison. McPheeters "acted from principle" instead, fleeing by night to Confederate territory. He served as a surgeon under Gen. Sterling Price and his Missouri forces west of the Mississippi River, treating soldiers' diseases, malnutrition, and terrible battle wounds. From almost the moment of his departure, the doctor kept a diary. It was a pocket-size notebook which he made by folding sheets of pale blue writing paper in half and in which he wrote in miniature with his steel pen. It is the first known daily account by a Confederate medical officer in the Trans-Mississippi Department. It also tells his wife's story, which included harassment by Federal military officials, imprisonment in St. Louis, and banishment from Missouri with the couple's two small children. The journal appears here in its complete and original form, exactly as the doctor first wrote it, with the addition of the editors' full annotation and vivid introductions to each section.

Author : Onora O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107512433
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting on Principle written by Onora O'Neill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Two things', wrote Kant, 'fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within'. Many would argue that since Kant's day, the study of the starry heavens has advanced while ethics has stagnated, and in particular that Kant's ethics offers an empty formalism that tells us nothing about how we should live. In Acting on Principle Onora O'Neill shows that Kantian ethics has practical as well as philosophical importance. First published in 1975, the book is regarded as a classic account and defence of the Kantian ethical position. It addresses Kant's account of reasoning about action, in particular his controversial claim that the Categorical Imperative guides action and is basic to ethics and justice. This second edition offers a substantial new introduction and updated bibliography, and will be valuable for a wide readership in Kant studies and those studying ethics.

Author : Richard Wiseman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451675062
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The As If Principle written by Richard Wiseman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tossing out the rule book, Wiseman--a renowned psychologist with 90,000 Twitter followers and 13 million YouTube viewers--presents a radical new insight on how actions have the power to instantly change the way people think and feel.

Author : Aaron Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Acting. Deriving Rules from a New Principle for Touching the Passions in a Natural Manner, Etc. [In Verse.] written by Aaron Hill and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Parr
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262362287
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Active Inference written by Thomas Parr and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking research, active inference provides an integrated perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior that is increasingly used across multiple disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. Active inference puts the action into perception. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of active inference, covering theory, applications, and cognitive domains. Active inference is a “first principles” approach to understanding behavior and the brain, framed in terms of a single imperative to minimize free energy. The book emphasizes the implications of the free energy principle for understanding how the brain works. It first introduces active inference both conceptually and formally, contextualizing it within current theories of cognition. It then provides specific examples of computational models that use active inference to explain such cognitive phenomena as perception, attention, memory, and planning.

Author : John Duns Scotus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1647921716
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatise on the First Principle written by John Duns Scotus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking what he describes as "the utmost limit of the knowledge our natural reason can achieve . . . concerning the True Existence [that is God]," John Duns Scotus (1265–1308) offers in this treatise one of philosophy’s most rigorous and ambitious attempts to deduce God’s existence from purely metaphysical theorems. As elucidated by its concise philosophical commentary, Thomas M. Ward's new translation of the Treatise on the First Principle puts a masterpiece of natural theology within reach of a new generation of English-reading students of philosophy.

Author : Alexander MACCAUL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Commission of the Christian Ministry, and the Principle of Church Establishments. Three Sermons, Preached at the Episcopal Jews' Chapel, Etc written by Alexander MACCAUL and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Asa Israel Fish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
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Download or read book A General Digest of the Principle Matters Contained in the Exchequer Reports, from 1824 to 1854 Inclusive written by Asa Israel Fish and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
ISBN 13 : 9781590318737
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Thomas GREEN (of Ipswich.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An examination of the leading principle of the new system of morals, as that principle is stated and applied in Mr. Godwin's Enquiry concerning Political Justice, in a letter. ... Second edition written by Thomas GREEN (of Ipswich.) and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: