CEPS AUTHOR | BERNHARD JOSEF SYLLA | Men encounter technology throughout their lives on three different planes. Everyone meets her in everyday life, in the use, in the utilization, of objects and technical procedures. Almost everything that reaches the hand and covers the view from morning to night is due to it: rooms, furniture, light, heating, water, mail, periodicals, books,…
Whistleblowing is the public disclosure of information with the purpose of revealing wrongdoings and abuses of power that harm the public interest. This book presents a comprehensive theory of whistleblowing
CEPS AUTHOR | ROBERTO MERRILL | In a precise language, but without jargon and carried by constant attention to the concrete problems, this dictionary explores the values which form our ideals of justice and the sometimes contradictory aspirations which guide them. It brings to light the mechanisms, behaviors, and mechanisms that generate injustice, as well as the means, proven or…
CEPS AUTHOR | JOÃO ROSAS | The History of Political Philosophy that we offer here gives the reader the possibility to go through, in a fluid but rigorous way, the extraordinary intellectual journey that shapes the canon of Western political theory. This journey begins in antiquity, with Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, later incorporating the Christian thought of Augustine of Hippo…
CEPS AUTHOR | ROBERTO MERRILL | This book aims to make known, in a detailed but accessible way to the general public, an old idea, but which has had renewed interest in recent years: the proposal to grant an unconditional basic income for all. This idea, often discarded and disqualified for allegedly belonging to the mere domain of utopia, understood…
CEPS AUTHOR | ROBERTO MERRILL | | ANA CATARINA NEVES | Unconditional Basic Income and State as an Employer of Last Resort: A Reply to Alan Thomas In a larger context of an egalitarian project which aims to reformulate capitalism a job guarantee program in the form of a State as an Employer of Last Resort (SELR) is considered superior…
CEPS AUTHOR | JOSÉ A. COLEN | This book is intended to facilitate the introduction to the philosophy of those who are taking their first steps in their academic studies in any area, as well as a wider group that we can call, for lack of a better expression, “students of philosophy”. . It is generally addressed to inquisitive and…
CEPS AUTHOR | JOSÉ A. COLEN | This book is a brief history of the way in which contemporary social and political ideas were born, changed and are on the way to change, ideas that until recently seemed evident to us. It was born from a reflection on the concepts, arguments and justifications of what constitutes our current moral and…
CEPS AUTHOR | JOSÉ A. COLEN | This work on the thought of Raymond Aron aims to complete his own autobiography (Memoirs), the biographies of others and the author's main works that are still read in universities, also aiming to guide the reader in the study of the whole of his thought. While this volume does not entirely ignore Aron's…