Patrícia Fernandes A educação cívica e política pode desempenhar um papel relevante no quotidiano de um regime democrático, onde o processo através do qual as decisões políticas são tomadas constitui um complexo emaranhado de regras, procedimentos, relações entre inúmeras instituições e um conjunto de outros detalhes que podem gerar um sentimento de desorientação a quem o tenta compreender. Reconhecendo a…
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GIUSEPPE BALLACCI This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient…
CEPS AUTHOR |JOSÉ A. COLEN| Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss’s most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark work. In them, he explores natural right and…
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…