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The book defends that there is both teleological order (design) and chance in non-living and in living systems of nature including man. This is done by giving exact definitions of different types of order and teleological order on the one hand and of different types of chance on the other. For their compatibility it is important to notice that any definition of chance presupposes some kind of order relative to that we can speak of chance. Thus also in evolution which is some growth of some order and for which a detailed definition is given in chpt.13 chance and degrees of freedom play an essential role.A further purpose of the book is to show that both the existing order and the existing chance in nature are compatible with a global teleological plan which is God's providence. However concerning the execution of God's plan not everything is done or caused by himself but ?God created things in such a way that they themselves can create something? (Gödel, MAX PHIL). A reason for that is that God is neither all-causing nor all-willing although he is almighty. This is connected with the result of chpts.15 and 16 that also human freedom and evil are compatible with God's providence.

This volume of Papyri contains a selection of 25 pieces which were excavated in the village of Karanis in the north-eastern Fayum (Egypt) by American archaeologists between 1924 and 1926. Many of the texts published here come from the archive of a well known figure in the village life of Karanis in the 2nd century AD: Socrates, son of Sarapion, was a tax collector here for many years, serving the Roman Empire collecting taxes due in money and in kind. Besides his successful economic activities - Socrates certainly belonged to the upper stratum of society in Karanis - the tax collector was a lover of Greek literature; for sure, he did not venture into high philosophy and the like, but he read Homer, comedies, and tried to be up to date about mythology in plays. Half of the new texts published here are literary, mostly from Socrates' library; other texts were found in the immediate neighbourhood of where Socrates lived, such as a surgical treatise about remedies of shoulder dislocations, which perhaps belonged to a doctor. The other half of the papyrus texts in this volume are documents that can shed new light on the activities of the tax collector, or of other inhabitants of Karanis. Altogether they give us a vivid picture of village life in Graeco/Roman Egypt in the 2nd century AD.

die Jahre 1963-1969 sind eine Schlusselperiode fur die Beziehungen zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland. Kaum war der Elysee-Vertrag unterzeichnet, entbrannten Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Paris und Bonn, die die bilaterale Entente dauernd belasteten. Auf einer breiten Quellenbasis geht Carine Defrance der Hauptfrage nach, ob und weshalb die Unfahigkeit beider Lander, zu einem Konsens uber gemeinschaftliche und internationale Schlusselfragen zu kommen, fur die Stagnation des europaischen Einigungsprozesses in den Jahren 1963-1969 verantwortlich ist. Sie untersucht die dynamischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland in Europa sowohl im gemeinschaftlichen als auch im internationalen Kontext der 1960er Jahre. Die Autorin arbeitet systematisch die Perspektiven, Motive, Aktionen und Reaktionen in den bilateralen Beziehungen heraus, um ihre Auswirkungen auf die europaische Ebene aufzuzeigen. Damit hebt sie die deutsch-franzosischen Beziehungen aus der Betrachtung der nationalen Politik hervor und unterscheidet sich damit von bisherigen Arbeiten, die die Paris-Bonn-Achse entweder aus franzosischer oder deutscher Perspektive beleuchtet haben. Uber die Analyse der bilateralen Zusammenarbeit hinaus ist dieses Buch ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Historiographie der europaischen Integration, indem sie die Debatte um das Verhaltnis zwischen Bilateralismus und Multilateralismus und zwischen europaischer Integration und Kaltem Krieg bereichert.

The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.

Meisterwerke der griechischen Kunst, Statuen und Gemalde, wurden ab republikanischer Zeit in groer Zahl von ihren originalen Standorten nach Rom entfuhrt. Dort schmuckten sie offentliche Orte, genau wie Jahrhunderte spater wiederum griechische Kunstwerke, die in die neue Hauptstadt Konstantinopel versetzt wurden. Der vorliegende Band liefert uns eine Fulle an schriftlichen und archaologischen Zeugnissen zu den Werken und ihren neuen Standorten. Die Verfasserin erklart das Phanomen in einer breiten Perspektive, die von romischen Kunstkriterien zur politischen Kommunikation fuhrt. Zentraler Begriff ist das Decorum, das "e;Passende"e;, das nach Cicero die stimmige Kombination eines bedeutungsvollen Kontextes mit der Selbstdarstellung des Auftraggebers und den inhaltlichen Aussagen der Werke selbst bezeichnet. Chronologisch fortschreitend ist zu verfolgen, wie die griechischen Kunstwerke als Decorum offentlicher Orte Roms eingesetzt wurden, von den Tempeln der republikanischen Imperatoren bis zu den komplexen Ausstattungen kaiserzeitlicher Fora. Im Kontext ziviler Aktivitaten und staatlicher Zeremonien vermittelten sie ein weites Spektrum an politischen Werten und Programmausssagen des Herrscherhauses. Die Werke, die ab dem 4. Jh. n. Chr. auf politische Platze der neuen Hauptstadt versetzt wurden, besaen noch immer das Potential, die Facetten herrscherlicher Macht und Sieghaftigkeit zur Anschauung zu bringen. Der vergleichende Blick auf Konstantinopel bestatigt die anhaltende Bedeutung von griechischen Werken als adaquatem Schmuck politischer Raume. Erst im 6. Jh. n. Chr. verloren ihre paganen Inhalte jeden Zusammenhang mit dem Weltbild einer christlichen Gesellschaft. Zweifellos waren - so zeigt die Verfasserin - griechische Kunstwerke in der "e;Emigration"e; kein Randphanomen, sondern ein wesentlicher Beitrag zum politischen Leben Roms und Konstantinopels.

Die Studie greift die philosophische Frage nach den Grenzen undder moglichen Uberwindung des Formalismus auf. Sie bietet eine kritische Rekonstruktion des Fruhwerks von Georg Lukacs, in dem eine eigenartig asthetizistische Kulturkritik miteiner ethischen Utopie dostojewskischer Pragung erganzt werden sollte. Das Aufzeigen der Einheit wie der Aporien dieses zweigleisigen Ansatzes wirft neues Licht auf Lukacs' marxistische Wende Ende 1918.

Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

Questions concerning mobility and migration as well as subsistence strategies of past societies have always been of major importance in archaeological research. The West Eurasian steppes in the Eneolithic, the Early Bronze and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by cultural communities believed to show an elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy. In this volume, questions concerning the mobility and potential migration as well as the diet and economy of the West Eurasian steppes communities during the 4th, the 3rd and the 1st Millennia BC are approached by applying isotope analysis, specifically 87Sr/86Sr, I 18O, I 15N and I 13C analyses. Adapting a combination of different isotopic systems to a study area of vast spatial and chronological dimension allowed a wide variety of questions to be answered and establishes the beginning of a database of biogeochemical data for the West Eurasian steppes. Besides the characterisation of mobility and subsistence patterns of the archaeological communities under discussion, attempts to identify possible Early Bronze Age migrations from the steppes to the steppe-like plains in parts of Eastern Europe were made, alongside an evaluation of the applicability of isotope analysis to this context.

A Chance for Possibility defends the view that the objective modal realm is tripartite: truths about possible worlds supervene on modal truths, which in turn supervene on truths about objective chances.An understanding of supervenience in terms of grounding is developed which ? unlike the standard modal characterization ? allows the question of what modal truths supervene on to have a non-trivial answer. Relying on this understanding, a negative result is established: modal truths do not supervene on truths about possible worlds, whether possible worlds are conceived of as Lewisian concreta or as abstract objects of some kind. Instead, a conception of pleonastic possible worlds is developed that reverses the direction of supervenience. On the basis of linguistic considerations concerning our use of natural language 'might' and 'might have' sentences, Steinberg finally argues that truths about objective chances are able to provide a supervenience base for modal truths.A Chance for Possibility is an investigation in analytic metaphysics, drawing on related work in the philosophy of logic and language as well as linguistics. It provides a detailed case study for the fruitful use of a notion of grounding in the clarification and evaluation of longstanding philosophical issues.

Seit Parmenides gehort die Frage, wie man auf etwas intentional gerichtet sein kann, das nicht existiert, zu den Ratseln der Philosophie. Gema einer Lesart besteht das Ratsel darin, ob Intentionalitat eine Relation ist. Ist dem aber so und gehort es zur Natur einer Relation, nur zwischen Existierendem bestehen zu konnen, wie kann es dann eine intentionale Relation"e; zwischen einer Entitat und einer Non Entitat geben? Muss man, wie etwa Meinong, einen eigenen Status fur jedes intentionale Objekt einfuhren? Oder sollte man eher die Idee aufgeben, Intentionalitat sei eine Relation? In diesem Buch wird das Problem der Nicht Existenz im Kontext dieser Fragen verortet und zum Ausgangspunkt einer Untersuchung von Husserls Phanomenologie bewusster Intentionalitat gemacht. So werden z. B. Husserls Deutung von Urteilen uber Nicht-Seiendes als Urteile unter Assumption"e; und seine Analyse der freien Phantasie untersucht. Husserl wird insgesamt als Nicht Relationalist gedeutet, der sich als systematisch anschlussfahig an zeitgenossische nicht relationale Theorien erweist.

Die Reihe bietet ein Publikationsforum fur innovative Arbeiten zu allen Themengebieten der analytischen Philosophie. Die Bande in dieser Reihe erscheinen in deutscher oder englischer Sprache.

Der Band Erfolgreich recherchieren ¿ Informatik bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Informationsressourcen zu allen Teilgebieten der Informatik. Vorgestellt werden nicht nur die zentralen Rechercheinstrumente wie Bibliothekskataloge, Fachbibliographien, Internetsuchmaschinen und Aufsatzdatenbanken, sondern auch Strategien für die erfolgreiche Literaturrecherche. Ein eigener Teil des Buches widmet sich der Weiterverarbeitung der gefundenen Informationen, also der Literaturbeschaffung, der Verwendung von Literaturverwaltungsprogrammenund dem richtigen Zitieren. Ob für das erste Referat oder die Abschlussarbeit ¿ hier bekommen Sie einen kompetenten Leitfaden für die erfolgreiche Recherche an die Hand.

In comparison to Mark and Luke, the First Gospel contains a striking preponderance of economic language in passages dealing with sin, righteousness, and divine recompense. For instance, sin is described as a debt, and righteous deeds are said to earn wages with God or treasure in heaven. This study analyzes Matthew's economic language against the backdrop of other early Jewish and Christian literature and examines its import for the narrative as a whole. Careful attention to this neglected aspect of Matthew's theology demonstrates that some of the Gospel's central claims about atonement, Jesus' death and resurrection, and divine recompense emerge from this conceptual matrix. By tracing the narrative development of the economic motif, the author explains how Jesus saves his people from their sins and comes to be enthroned as Son of Man, sheds new light on numerous exegetical puzzles, and clarifies the relationship of ethical rigorism and divine generosity.

Anders Cullhed's study The Shadow of Creusa explores the early Christian confrontation with pagan culture as a remote anticipation of many later clashes between religious orthodoxy and literary fictionality. After a careful survey of Saint Augustine's critical attitudes to ancient myth and poetry, summarized as a long drawn-out farewell, Cullhed examines other Late Antique dismissals as well as appropriations of the classical heritage. Macrobius, Martianus Capella and Boethius figure among the Late Antique intellectuals who attempted to save or even restore the old mythology by means of allegorical representation. On the other hand, pious poets such as Paulinus of Nola and Bible epic writers such as Iuvencus or Avitus of Vienne turned against pagan lies, and the mighty arch-bishop of Milan, Saint Ambrose, played off unconditional Christian truth against the last Roman strongholds of cultural pluralism. Thus, The Shadow of Creusa elucidates a cultural conflict which was to leave traces all through the Middle Ages and reach down to our present day.

This book deals with the house of prisoners (bit asiri ) at the city of Uruk during the revolt against king Samsu-iluna of Babylon, Hammurabi¿s son. The political history of this brief period (ca. 1741¿1739 BC) is not widely known and until now there has been no comprehensive treatment of the bit asiri. This book includes autograph copies, transliterations, and translations of 42 unpublished cuneiform tablets from various collections, collations, and detailed tables and catalogues. The analysis comprises some 410 documents dated or attributable to king Rim-Anum, one of the insurgents who attained relative independence as the ruler of Uruk. The study of this corpus reveals details about diplomatic dealings between the central power and rebel rulers, about the functioning of the house of prisoners of war, and about the individuals who participated in different echelons of the local administration. This monograph investigates what kind of organization ¿the house of prisoners¿ was, how it worked, how it interacted with other institutions, the composition of its labor force, and state management of captive and enslaved individuals.

Immanuel Kant is often considered to be the source of the contemporary idea of human dignity, but his conception of human dignity and its relation to human value and to the requirement to respect others have not been widely understood. Kant on Human Dignity offers the first in-depth study in English of this subject. Based on a comprehensive analysis of all the passages in which Kant uses the term 'dignity', as well as an analysis of the most prominent arguments for a value of human beings in the Kant literature, the book carefully examines different ways of construing the relationship between dignity, value and respect for others. It takes seriously Kant's Copernican Revolution in moral philosophy: Kant argues that moral imperatives cannot be based on any values without yielding heteronomy. Instead it is imperatives of reason that determine what is valuable. The requirement to respect all human beings is one such imperative. Respect for human beings does not follow from human dignity-for this would violate autonomy-but is an unconditional command of reason. Following this train of thought yields a unified account of Kant's moral philosophy.

When it comes to fashion, few metropolitan areas are more synonymous with style than New York, London, Paris and Milan. But the couture capitals of tomorrow may be located in less likely locales. Addressing the interplay between the development of fashion centres across the world and their relationship to consumption and street style in both local and global contexts, the books in the Street Style series aim to record emerging fashion capitals and their relationship to the physical landscapes of the street. By examining how particular ecologies of fashion are connected to the formation of gender, class and generational identities, this series establishes a new methodology for recording and understanding identity and its connection to style.Havana Street Style is the first book that explores and reveals the relationship between culture, city and street fashion in Cuba's capital. Matching visual ethnography with critical analysis, the book documents a unique street style few in the United States have yet experienced.

Hawai'i is one of the most ethnically and racially diverse places in the world due to its central location in the Pacific. Situated at the crossroads of different cultures, Honolulu has a style all of its own. Honolulu Street Style captures this unique approach as it demonstrates how global trends are transformed by stylish Honolulu denizens to give them a unique, local look. Divided into chapters on hair, hats, accessories and beachwear, the book features the styles of people encountered on the street in many different neighbourhoods, with an essay on the history and clothing of Hawai'i as a whole. The neighbourhood fashion explored includes that of iconic Waikiki, which conjures images most people associate with Hawai'i, yet the mass-produced tourist clothing belies a deeper fashion culture hidden in local enclaves and local boutiques that foster an upscale, casual style. Chinatown is a neighbourhood of dramatic colour and exotic touches, and it hosts 'First Friday' events that transform the neighbourhood into a crowded hub of artistic, musical and retail activity. As the photos show, the Kaka'ako neighbourhood draws a crowd that is hip, travelled and not afraid to venture off the beaten path. In contrast, the Manoa valley, home to the flagship campus of the University of Hawai'i, presents itself as an eclectic mix of students and professionals dressed in everything from boho chic to surfer, skater, avant-garde and casual professional style. A highly visual book with full-colour street style photography, Honolulu Street Style will be a landmark publication in the study of place and style.

The title of this series has changed, new books are published in Epistemic Studies.

The book gives a systematical presentation of stochastic approximation methods for discrete time Markov price processes. Advanced methods combining backward recurrence algorithms for computing of option rewards and general results on convergence of stochastic space skeleton and tree approximations for option rewards are applied to a variety of models of multivariate modulated Markov price processes. The principal novelty of presented results is based on consideration of multivariate modulated Markov price processes and general pay-off functions, which can depend not only on price but also an additional stochastic modulating index component, and use of minimal conditions of smoothness for transition probabilities and pay-off functions, compactness conditions for log-price processes and rate of growth conditions for pay-off functions. The volume presents results on structural studies of optimal stopping domains, Monte Carlo based approximation reward algorithms, and convergence of American-type options for autoregressive and continuous time models, as well as results of the corresponding experimental studies.

Provides in-depth analysis of Bitcoin Ethereum and the different types of Altcoins in the ecosystem. The author demonstrates an empirical approach to explaining how digital assets can fit into a diversified portfolio of traditional financial assets or as a standalone portfolio in a parallel financial ecosystem.

Healthcare organisations cry out for a toll to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinical teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction.

Perfect for everyone involved in sales or business development who wants to become a more persuasive communicator. This practical guide explains customers' goals and motivations, how to identify the most relevant and important issues to talk about, how to take control of every pitch, and how to plan and then deliver proposals that persuade.

An advanced technical book for hybrid project and program management. The book presents a complete methodology covering both processes as well as principles, according to a sound meta-model.

Distilled from accounts of individual best boss stories, research and author experience, this book unlocks the powerful secrets of best boss leadership by providing a systemic approach for leading the best boss way.

Leading business schools routinely offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in operations and supply chain management. Yet 200,000 U.S. jobs in supply chain management go unfilled each year owing to lack of talent. The talent that U.S. companies need, and that this book provides, is understanding how to make and buy products from China.How important is China to U.S. operations? In 2018, U.S. imports from China reached $600 billion. Half of these imports were bought by U.S. manufacturers. A dependency on Chinese goods is even greater when looking at U.S. supply chains. Sixty cents of every dollar that U.S. consumers spend on goods made in China go to U.S. workers and companies.Successful operations and supply chain managers understand manufacturing in China. This book takes readers inside Chinese organizations and shows how factories are built, labor is managed, goods are sourced, quality is controlled, and logistics are handled. Through this immersion experience readers are able to see the opportunities and pitfalls manufacturing in China.

Central banks do not print growth. The financial crisis was much more than the result of an excess of risk. The same policies that created each subsequent bust are the ones that have been implemented in recent years. This book is about realistic solutions for the threat of zero-interest rates and excessive liquidity. The United States needs to take the first step, defending sound money and a balanced budget, recovering the middle-class by focusing on increasing disposable income. The rest will follow. Our future should not be low growth and high debt. Cheap money becomes very expensive in the long run. There is an escape from the Central Bank Trap.

This book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership. It explores the key success factors for digital transformation of organizations in the highly disruptive, increasingly VUCA-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.Disruption is happening everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. It is happening at a scale and speed that is unprecedented in modern history, impacting diverse industries, from financial services to retail, media, logistics and supply chain, manufacturing, education, professional services, and life sciences. Leaders are finding it challenging to navigate the near-insurmountable challenges resulting from the impact of these disruptive events on their organizations.The right leadership is critical for organizations to thrive in a disruptive business environment. How should we define leadership in such an environment? Are the current leadership practices and competencies still relevant in the face of such disruption? What are the attributes of a "e;disruptive digital leader"e;? How can leaders set themselves up not only to survive but also to thrive in navigating the challenges of disruptive events and crises?This book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership. It explores the key success factors for digital transformation of organizations in the highly disruptive, increasingly VUCA-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as Industry 4.0). The book also examines the fundamental qualities of disruptive leadership that would distinguish successful leaders as they guide their organizations through the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the digital transformation at the workplace.