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Pleasant Valley [Cambridge] Vermont Albany New Yor. Good+. 1880. On offer is a super, original manuscript diary handwritten by Mr. Harlan Page French, an expressive 19th Century business… More...

Pleasant Valley [Cambridge] Vermont Albany New Yor. Good+. 1880. On offer is a super, original manuscript diary handwritten by Mr. Harlan Page French, an expressive 19th Century business man and entrepreneur born in Pleasant Valley [Cambridge] Vermont but spent most of his adult life in Albany New York. In 1881 Harlan's business of French & Choate Stationer succeeded the Readers and Writer's Economy Company. His partner left the business in 1884. While not a day to day diary Harlan writes 154 handwritten pages in the 6" x 11" book beginning March 15th, 1880 through to February 13th, 1921 but sometimes not writing for years but he retrospectively brings the reader up to date regarding his life, his business and his family after the gaps. He and his family, wife Augusta (nee Bowers) and his daughter Florence, take many vacations leaving the city as he suffers from allergies. Interestingly he takes "Cocaine" for his hay fever. Readers will find Harlan a super diarist. Here are some snippets: "March 15th, 1880. Here I am in New York but not so well pleased with my position as I might be. The business of the Readers and Writers Economy does not start off very briskly and I am a little dissatisfied. However things will probably take a more favorable turn soon and I shall feel better. Have called on Mr. Fisk at 346 Broome St. this P.M. and had a pleasant chat with him. Shall look around a little by and by and see where I can get boarded to the best advantage. We have had a few callers today and a little trade and that is an improvement on Saturday." "April 13th, 1880. I am completely tired out and discouraged. Things are getting more and more mixed every day and there seems no possibility of straightening them out. I am discouraged and very blue. If it was in my power to go back four months, I should be very sure to continue my relations with the S. S. F. Co. for all of casting in my lot with a concern managed by men with no capitol and no experience. But I am blue tonight and shall probably feel better tomorrow. It is not because business is dull but because it is managed in such an unsystematic and un-businesslike way that I am so discouraged. I have been hoping it would improve but I can't see that it does." "September 1st, 1880. The weeks are passing rapidly and when a few more days have gone my wife and baby will be here again. Business is picking up again and we have enough to do from morning till night. Fred Choate came down here for a fortnight ago tomorrow and is going to work for me through the winter. He is doing nicely and seems perfectly contented. Mr. Holmes is evidently getting interested in Mrs. Fellows, for which I am rather sorry. But boys will be boys and he is not yet too old to be a boy I guess. Our affairs at Boston are going on in the same old way. Mr. D. is still running things in his impetuous and changeable way and still neglecting important matters which he pursues some imaginary valuable contacts. Economy notes are played out and subscribers defrauded of their money. Catalogues and circulars are not forthcoming, great promises are made in our advertisements and but little is done towards fulfilling them. In fact our President does all his work, in my opinion, in about the worst way possible……" "July 8th, 1881. I want to put on record my belief that Dr. Nichols course with the Economy notes has been such as to show positively that he is not capable of doing anything in a business like way. We have had only one number dated in 1881 and although another was promised at once, nothing more has been heard of it. The management of the Economy Club and notes has been such as to seriously displease and disgust its friends and has hurt our reputation and our business greatly. And still Mr. Coolidge and Dr. W. can't seem to see it." "November 22nd, 1882. In April (the 1st) I found a co-partnership with Monsieur Smith and Choate's and we have been running the business together since. In May I took a trip to Chicago, St. Louis &c and with fine success. On Oct. 13th, I started on a second trip and took in Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis &c. Had a pleasant and successful trip which I enjoyed quite well for me. Business boomed while I was away and for a week after my return but now it is at a quiet stand again. It has been very dull this week, so dull that I do not understand it at all and I have been decidedly down; but I am beginning to recover today. I noticed that I am always troubled with the blues after I return from a trip and I attribute it to the change to indoor work and the taking up of the responsibility which I had laid aside during the trip." "September 11th, 1883. On August 2nd myself and family left Brooklyn and went to Cambridge where I left wife and child and on the 4th started west. Was gone a little over five weeks and had fine success but business in the store was very dull and I came home sooner then I otherwise would on account of the unfavorable conditions of our finances and the discouraging letters received from Mr. Stoughton. It is a sad fact that trade has not equalled our expectations and is not likely to. We are running behind and in looking the matter squarely in the face yesterday and today I am compelled to say that I do not see how we are going to make a success. I fear for the future and am very blue and depressed. It does seem as though we had ever been in such close quarters before and I can't for the life of me see our way out. I can only do my best and trust in providence." "June 18th, 1886. Albany New York. Well my journal has had a long long rest. For months I didn't care to put down my thoughts and feelings on paper and so have written nothing. My New York experience is over. After three and a half years of hard work, unsuccessful in its results, I closed out all our goods that I could, sent the rest to H. B. Mims and Co. of Troy on sale and the 18th of May 1885 I entered their employ as a traveling salesman. I have not been with them a little more than a year and am quite well satisfied with my position. I have lately been on my vacation to now, going up on May 25th. It is just six years this summer since Gusta, Florence and I went up there together and spent two weeks on the farm and we are enjoying this visit very much. We drove down to Uncle Marks' on Thursday and up to Pleasant Valley where I was born…." "August 15th, 1886. Pittsburgh……I hope I have found a remedy for hay fever in Cocaine which I have been using for three days. I am certainly feeling much better than I did a year ago today and am hoping the improvement will be permanent. This afternoon I have taken a ride across the Monongahela and up an inclined plane on to the bluff west of the city. Made the acquaintance of a young Scotchman who is employed in one of the larger hotels and who, like myself, was out of a walk. Have a pleasant walk, a good view of the city and now will spent the evening reading." 'July 17th, 1898. It is more than 12 years since I have written a line in my journal but I am alone tonight and I will begin again. Twelve years ago I was with H. B. Mims and Co. as a traveling salesman. I remained with them until December 31st, 1890 when I left their employ and became the manager of the Albany Teachers Agency which had been started by Will Choate three or four years before but which had never amounted to anything. I started into my work with a will but the first year's business was very unsatisfactory. The second year was better and after a while I succeeded in establishing myself on a paying basis. For the last three years business has been good and we have been contented and happy. On May 1st 1890 we moved to No. 2 Leonard place and after two or three years we purchased the house and thus gained a home of our own. The years have brought their trials, their joys and sorrows to Augusta and me but we have much to be thankful for. The "baby" is now a young lady who has just completed her second year in Vassar and she and her mother are now visiting Mother Bower's and Fannie in No. Cambridge. On Saturday June 25th I went to Amherst to attend the reunion of the class of 68' thirty years after graduation and I want to make a brief record of my experiences…." "August 11th, 1898. A week ago this A.M. I received a telegram from Edward Flanagan telling me that Ned Bowers died the night before, August 3rd. Augusta and I were entirely unprepared for this sad news and the shock was almost too much for her. On Friday morning we started for Cambridge and arrived at mother's about 5 P.M. Fannie was at Lexington looking for a minister to conduct the funeral services and when she returned she reported that she had engaged my college classmate, H. H. Hamilton. The funeral was at Concord on Saturday afternoon and we laid poor Ned away beside his brothers. It was a sad, sad day and one long to be remembered…" "August 25th, 1904. Lake Placid. For five years past I have taken a vacation in the hay fever season to escape the annual attacks which have troubled me for 34 years and thus have been able to pass the months of August and September in comparative comfort. In 1900 we went (Augusta, Florence, Mother B. and I) to Nova Scotia and spent ten days. The next year we made a longer trip and remained three weeks. Florence did not go but Fannie Bower went for a single week and left Augusta and me to finish the season alone. In 1902 we spent 2 weeks at the Randall House in Morrisville, went from there to Bethlehem N.H. for a week or more and then home to Albany via Boston. Last year (1903) we, Augusta and I, came to Lake Placid on August 22nd, arriving in from Westford via Elizabethtown and Keene Center. We remained ten days, stopping at Northwood's Inn then went to Morrisville for nearly two weeks, to Bethlehem N.H…..This year we have planned a change and came up here to Lakeside Inn on the 23rd. We came by the D. and H. taking a parlor car on the fast express leaving Troy at 1:45 P.M. We had a fine trip taking our dinner on the train and arriving at 9:20 in the evening. Augusta enjoyed the journey and arrived in good condition. I had a good deal of trouble with hay fever but it began to improve and now after two days it has nearly disappeared……We have been resting for two days and have done nothing except to walk around Mirror Lake this morning. We left Florence and Frances at home but Florence will come up here after Frances has got Will started in her school at Coxsackie……" "August 31st, 1904. Yesterday morning we had a decidedly unpleasant experience. About 6:20 we were wakened by a fearful groan, almost a scream, from the room adjoining ours. This was followed by other groans and a most unnatural breathing. I rapped at the door and called to the inmate but got no response. Augusta and I were much frightened for we knew someone must be sick and possibly dying. I put on my bathrobe and my slippers and ran down to call Mrs. Lamb. She came up immediately and we called and rapped at the door but got no reply. I looked over the transom and saw a young lady stretched upon her bed and evidently in an unconscious state. Another guest, a Mrs. Stewart, appeared upon the scene and we burst open the door. Mrs. S. is a born leader and made herself very useful. A doctor was called and in about half an hour he appeared but before his arrival the lady regained consciousness and appeared to be in her right mind. But before he came she acted strangely. She rose from her bed and came into the hall and we had to put her back by main force. She tried to bite Mrs. S. and evidently out of her head. But when she came out of the attack she seemed as rational as anybody. She came down to breakfast and was about the house and the piazza all day. She seemed a little concerned about the attack and told a friend that if she had been left alone she would have come out all right and I almost felt that she blamed me for paying attention to her outcry and calling the land lady. Last night she had another attack, only not so severe, or at least the noise she made was less disturbing. But she awoke us a little after midnight with her outcry and again we were very much startled and frightened. I rapped on the door and spoke to her but got no answer. Her cry was followed by a gurgling noise and Augusta thought she was vomiting. We didn't know just what to do but decided to wait and see if any further demonstrations were made but nothing further occurred to disturb us and finely we went to sleep again. And this morning the young lady appeared at the breakfast table looking about as usual. Of course I was anxious and felt that I ought to consult with someone so I went down to see the Doctor (Warren). He told me it was probably epilepsy and advised me if the trouble occurred again to do nothing as she would probably fall into a deep sleep and would come out of the attack all right…..I am sorry for the young woman who is sick and alone in a strange hotel. She is not very talkative and on one knows much about her." "August 30th, 1905. Beaumaris Ontario. We left home on the 22nd at noon catching the first fast mail for Buffalo and Niagara Falls where we arrived at 8 P.M. I wired the Imperial Hotel for rooms and we had two that were fairly comfortable except that they were very dirty. The office and waiting room are pleasant and attractive but the sleeping rooms seemed never to have been cleaned, the wash bowl and pitcher were dirty and I did not feel at all pleased with the place. But the dining room was rather attractive and the breakfast very good. We left at 9 A.M. for Muskoken and arrived at the wharf without change of cars at 2:50 P.M. On the wharf we found our trunks which were turned over to us by the customs officer without examination and we reached Beaumaris at about 4:30. We found our rooms ready for us and settled down at once. The hotel is quite full and many pleasant people are here but we do not find it quite up to our expectations. We have been out rowing, Florence has been in bathing and yesterday we took a trip to Rosseau calling at the Royal Muskoka and taking dinner at Rosseau…." "September 16th, 1906. The Mt. Pleasant Britton Woods N.H. We reached this hotel at five o'clock on September 10th and were assigned to a very comfortable room on the third floor that is the third floor above the office, No. 340. We have found accommodations excellent, the table first class and the service all that one could ask., 1880, 2.5, Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois Univ Pr. New. 1998. Paperback. 0809322129 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 304 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword Preface 1 The Social Construction of Responsibility 3 2 Philosophical Perspectives on Responsibility and Excuse 15 3 Superintending "Bankruptcies" in Child Rearing: A Family Court Model of Juvenile Justice 33 4 Cell Out: Renting Out the Responsibility for the Criminally Confined 49 5 Managing to Prevent Prison Suicide: Are Staff at Risk Too? 68 6 "It's Not Your Fault!" A Message to Offenders from Criminal Justice and Corrections 87 7 Responsibility - A Key Word in the Danish Prison System 94 8 Moral Disengagement and the Role of Ideology in the Displacement and Diffusion of Responsibility among Terrorists * 9 Responsibility, Anxiety, and Organizational Deviance: The Systemic and Elusive Properties of Responsibility in Organizations and Groups * 10 Helping Offenders Accept Personal Responsibility: Strategies for Controlling Criminal Behavior 155 Conclusion: Negotiating Responsibility in an "Age of Innocence" * Epilogue: Why Don't They Hit Back? * List of Contributors 195. -- DESCRIPTION: With this collection of essays, Jack Kamerman presents the first sustained examination of one of the underpinnings of the operation of the criminal justice system: the issue of responsibility for actions and, as a consequence, the issue of accountability. Unique in the breadth of its approach, this volume examines the issue of responsibility from the perspectives of criminal justice professionals, sociologists, philosophers, and public administrators from four countries. Attacking the problem on various levels, the essayists look first at the assumptions made by criminal justice institutions regarding offender responsibility, then turn to the views of offenders on the causes of their own actions and to the consequences of offenders either to accept or deny responsibility. These scholars also examine the social and psychological circumstances under which people in general accept or deny responsibility for what they do, thus providing the basis for understanding the process of social distance as a major precondition for people to commit atrocities without seeing themselves as responsible. Understanding the circumstances under which people either distance themselves from or embrace responsibility enables criminologists to make grounded recommendations for reordering responsibility in the criminal justice system and, more generally, for restoring a sense of responsibility to organizations, occupations, and society. Aside from Kamerman, the contributors are William C. Collins, Charles Fethe, Gilbert Geis, Robert J. Kelly, Alison Liebling, Jess Maghan, Mark Harrison Moore, Paul Neurath, John Rakis, William Rentzmann, and Jose E. Sanchez. -- with a bonus offer-- ., Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1998, 6<

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London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1904. Tall 8vo. xvi, 292 pp., plus 2 pp. publishers ads. Photo frontisp., 44 photos and plates, 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green publishers cloth, gil… More...

London: Rowland Ward Ltd., 1904. Tall 8vo. xvi, 292 pp., plus 2 pp. publishers ads. Photo frontisp., 44 photos and plates, 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green publishers cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine, simulated Zebra skin endpapers (minor bumping to corners, edgewear, slight spotting on the spine), still VG copy. First edition of this excellent early account of hunting on the Kenai Peninsula, including descriptions of Alaskan Native Americans, salmon cannery operations, and more. Radclyffe had acquired a permit from the Bureau of Biological Survey with the USDA in order to collect big game specimens for the British Museum, and the account was dedicated to a longtime fellow hunter and friend, Theodore Roosevelt. The author details his experiences with hunting Alaskan Brown Bears, Grizzly Bears, Moose, Dall Sheep, and running afoul of the zealous US Deputy Marshal Sexton, a stickler for the new game regulations instituted on the Kenai in 1903 (not to mention destroying the distilling operation of Alaskan hunter & miner Andrew Berg). He managed to survive a charging bear sow after being abandoned by his guide as well as the Alaskan courtroom, but his companions were not so lucky as the judge ruled that the permit did not extend to the hunting party. Radclyffe returned later to hunt Alaska on the Kenai in August, 1910 employing Andrew Berg as his head guide. See: Catherine Cassidy, Alaskas No. 1 Guide: The History and Journals of Andrew Berg, 1869-1939, pp. 28-29, 38., Rowland Ward Ltd., 1904., 0, New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc.. As New. 1965. Paperback. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 383 pages -- Interior text is clean, tight & unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From the publisher's description on the first page: " Charles Darwin, Lord Ashley, Elizabeth Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, General 'Chinese' Gordon and Cardinal Newman are fascinating Victorian figures that come vividly to life in these dramatic profiles. Here, in their own words and those of their contemporaries, are six views of the many-sided Victorian age of England. Taken from diaries, books, interviews and the comments of friends and enemies, these are the ideas that gave birth to the freedoms in art, science, morals and social conditions that are our heritage today." -- with a bonus offer; ., Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1965, 5, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Rodopi. New. 2002. Hardcover. 904201220X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 484 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: This book presents Robert S. Hartman's formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A. J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, William K. Frankena, R. M. Hare, Nicolai Hartmann, Martin Heidegger, G. E. Moore, P. H. Nowell-Smith, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles Stevenson, Paul W. Taylor, Stephen E. Toulmin, and J. O. Urmson. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial Foreword * Acknowledgments * 1 The Knowledge of Value 3 * 1 The Nature of Critique 3 * 2 The Axiological Fallacies 5 * 3 The Cognition of Value 11 * 2 The Levels of Value Language 25 * 1 First Level: Empirical Value Language 28 * 2 Second Level: Analysis of Empirical Value Language 34 * 3 Third Level: Systematic Value Language 49 * 3 Value Science and Natural Science 53 * 1 The Present State of Ethical Theory 53 * 2 The Formal Analogy Between Natural Science and Moral Science 56 * 3 Primary Qualities in Science and in Ethics 65 * 4 Moore's Metaethics: The Science of Good 75 * 1 Moore's Axiomatic of the Science of Ethics 77 * 2 The Axiomatic of the Science of Value 95 * 5 Non-Cognitivists and Semi-Cognitivists 103 * 1 Non-Cognitivists 103 * 2 Semi-(Non)-Cognitivists 106 * 6 Naturalistic Cognitivists 163 * 1 Naturalistic Empiricists 165 * 2 Naturalistic Formalists 182 * 7 Non-Naturalistic Cognitivists 209 * 1 Non-Naturalistic Empiricists 209 * 2 Non-Naturalistic Formalists 235 * 3 The Formal Nature of Value: Axiological Science 249 * 8 The Axiological Value of Reason 257 * 1 The Logical Necessity of Reason in Moral Conduct 259 * 2 The Logical Relation Between "Is" and "Ought" 269 * 9 The Symbolization of Value 277 * 1 The Transposition of Synthetic System and Analytic Reality 277 * 2 Analytic and Synthetic Formulae: "Exemplification" and Intensional Fulfillment 281 * 3 The Symbolization of "Ought" 289 * 4 Analytic Shorthand and Synthetic Symbolization 295 * 10 The Measurement of Value 307 * 1 Analytic Reality and Synthetic Reality 307 * 2 Analytic and Synthetic Measurement of Value 309 * 3 Analytic "Value Measurement" 316 * 4 Synthetic Value Measurement and Prediction 324 * 11 The Formalization of Value 339 * 1 The Non-Reality of Value 339 * 2 The Situational Reality of Value 360 * 3 The Formal Reality of Value 364 * Notes 373 * Bibliography 413 * About the Author and the Editors 445 * Index 449., Rodopi, 2002, 6, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.: Imprint Academic. New. 2000. Paperback. 090784507x .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- -- 352 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section 1. Primate Evolutionary Continuities versus Human Uniqueness * Principal paper * Jessica C. Flack and Frans B. M. De Waal, 'Any Animal Whatever': Darwinian Building Blocks of Morality in Monkeys and Apes * Commentary discussion of principal paper * I. S. Bernstein, The Law Of Parsimony Prevails: Missing Premises Allow Any Conclusion * Josep Call, Intending and Perceiving: Two Forgotten Components of Social Norms * Margaret Gruter and Monika Gruter Morhenn, Building Blocks of Legal Behaviour: The Evolution of Law * Sandra Güth and Werner Güth, Morality Based on Cognition in Primates * Jerome Kagan, Human Morality Is Distinctive * Hans Kummer, Ways Beyond Appearances * Jim Moore, Morality and the Elephant: Prosocial Behaviour, Normativity, and Fluctuating Allegiances * Peter Railton, Darwinian Building Blocks * B. Thierry, Building Elements of Morality Are Not Elements of Morality * John Troyer, Human and Other Natures * Response to commentary discussion * Jessica C. Flack and Frans B. M. De Waal, Being Nice Is Not a Building Block of Morality * Section 2. How, When and Why Did the Unique Aspects of Human Morality Arise? * Principal paper * Christopher Boehm, Conflict and the Evolution of Social Control * Commentary discussion of principal paper * Christoph Antweiler, Morality as Adaptive Problem-Solving for Conflicts of Power * I. S. Bernstein, Logic and Human Morality: An Attractive if Untestable Scenario * Donald Black, On the Origin of Morality * Alan Carling, Boehm's Golden Age: Equality and Consciousness in Early Human Society * Robert Knox Dentan, Puzzling Questions, Not Beyond All Conjecture: Boehm's 'Evolutionary Origins Of Morality' * Peter M. Gardner, Which Culture Traits Are Primitive? * Bruce M. Knauft, Symbols, Sex and Sociality In the Evolution of Human Morality * Dennis Krebs, As Moral As We Need To Be * B. Thierry, Group Sanctions Without Social Norms? * Lionel Tiger, The Internal Triangle * Response to commentary discussion * Christopher Boehm, The Origin of Morality as Social Control * Section 3. Are We Really Altruists? * Principal paper * Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Summary of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior * Commentary discussion of principal paper * C. Daniel Batson, Unto Others: A Service .. .And a Disservice * Christopher Boehm, Group Selection in the Upper Palaeolithic * Herbert Gintis, Group Selection and Human Prosociality * Gilbert Harman, Can Evolutionary Theory Provide Evidence Against Psychological Hedonism? * K. N. Laland, F. J. Odling-Smee and Marcus W. Feldman, Group Selection: A Niche Construction Perspective * Iver Mysterud, Group Selection, Morality, and Environmental Problems * Randolph M. Nesse, How Selfish Genes Shape Moral Passions * Leonard Nunney, Altruism, Benevolence and Culture * Alex Rosenberg, The Problem of Enforcement: Is There an Alternative to Leviathan? * William A. Rottschaefer, It's Been a Pleasure, But That's Not Why I Did It: Are Sober and Wilson Too Generous Toward Their Selfish Brethren? * Lori Stevens, Experimental Studies of Group Selection: A Genetical Perspective * Ian Vine, Selfish, Altruistic, or Groupish? Natural Selection and Human Moralities * Amotz Zahavi, Altruism: The Unrecognized Selfish Traits * Response to commentary discussion * Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Morality and Unto Others * Section 4. Can Fairness Evolve? * Principal paper * Brian Skyrms, Game Theory, Rationality and Evolution of the Social Contract * Commentary discussion of principal paper * Gary E. Bolton, Motivation and the Games People Play * Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Blurring the Line Between Rationality and Evolution * Justin D'Arms, When Evolutionary Game Theory Explains Morality, What Does It Explain? * Herbert Gintis, Classical versus Evolutionary Game Theory * Sandra Güth and Werner Güth, Rational Deliberation versus Behavioural Adaptation: Theoretical Perspectives and Experimental Evidence * William Harms, The Evolution of Cooperation in Hostile Environments * Dennis Krebs, Evolutionary Games and Morality * Gary Mar, Evolutionary Game Theory, Morality and Darwinism * Randolph M. Nesse, Strategic Subjective Commitment * Christopher D. Proulx, Distributive Justice and the Nash Bargaining Solution * Response to commentary discussion * Brian Skyrms, Adaptive Dynamic Models and the Social Contract * Index * -- DESCRIPTION: -- Four principal papers and a total of 43 peer commentaries on the evolutionary origins of morality. To what extent is human morality the outcome of a continuous development from motives, emotions and social behaviour found in nonhuman animals? Jerome Kagan, Hans Kummer, Peter Railton and others discuss the first principal paper by primatologists Jessica Flack and Frans de Waal. The second paper, by cultural anthropologist Christopher Boehm, synthesizes social science and biological evidence to support his theory of how our hominid ancestors became moral. In the third paper philosopher Elliott Sober and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson argue that an evolutionary understanding of human nature allows sacrifice for others and ultimate desires for another's good. Finally Brian Skyrms argues that game theory based on adaptive dynamics must join the social scientist’s use of rational choice and classical game theory to explain cooperation. REVIEWS: "The papers are without exception excellent .. .It is hard to imagine a better start than the essays collected here for the new enterprise of applying evolutionary and primatological findings to the study of morality. " Biology and Philosophy * "A fascinating set of essays" Human Nature Review "Provides a wonderfully rich range of viewpoints from a variety of fields. " * Journal of Moral Education * "Psychologists will find much to enjoy in this meaty volume. " APA Review of Books * Advance praise for Evolutionary Origins of Morality* "Thoughtful and informative, ... A good basis for appreciating what has been achieved, and what the prospects might be, in a domain of inquiry that is of fundamental importance for understanding of our essential nature. " Noam Chomsky * "What would happen at a fictional dinner with the likes of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, David Hume, and Friedrich Nietzsche debating and revising their views in the light of today's science? Hard to say, perhaps, but one might well imagine that it would be great fun to listen in. Forget fiction. Pick up Evolutionary Origins of Morality and find out how moral psychology is being picked apart by evolutionists. The concise essays and critical exchanges are great fun -- and a feast for the mind" Marc Hauser, Imprint Academic, 2000, 6, Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois Univ Pr. New. 1998. Paperback. 0809322129 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 304 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword Preface 1 The Social Construction of Responsibility 3 2 Philosophical Perspectives on Responsibility and Excuse 15 3 Superintending "Bankruptcies" in Child Rearing: A Family Court Model of Juvenile Justice 33 4 Cell Out: Renting Out the Responsibility for the Criminally Confined 49 5 Managing to Prevent Prison Suicide: Are Staff at Risk Too? 68 6 "It's Not Your Fault!" A Message to Offenders from Criminal Justice and Corrections 87 7 Responsibility - A Key Word in the Danish Prison System 94 8 Moral Disengagement and the Role of Ideology in the Displacement and Diffusion of Responsibility among Terrorists * 9 Responsibility, Anxiety, and Organizational Deviance: The Systemic and Elusive Properties of Responsibility in Organizations and Groups * 10 Helping Offenders Accept Personal Responsibility: Strategies for Controlling Criminal Behavior 155 Conclusion: Negotiating Responsibility in an "Age of Innocence" * Epilogue: Why Don't They Hit Back? * List of Contributors 195. -- DESCRIPTION: With this collection of essays, Jack Kamerman presents the first sustained examination of one of the underpinnings of the operation of the criminal justice system: the issue of responsibility for actions and, as a consequence, the issue of accountability. Unique in the breadth of its approach, this volume examines the issue of responsibility from the perspectives of criminal justice professionals, sociologists, philosophers, and public administrators from four countries. Attacking the problem on various levels, the essayists look first at the assumptions made by criminal justice institutions regarding offender responsibility, then turn to the views of offenders on the causes of their own actions and to the consequences of offenders either to accept or deny responsibility. These scholars also examine the social and psychological circumstances under which people in general accept or deny responsibility for what they do, thus providing the basis for understanding the process of social distance as a major precondition for people to commit atrocities without seeing themselves as responsible. Understanding the circumstances under which people either distance themselves from or embrace responsibility enables criminologists to make grounded recommendations for reordering responsibility in the criminal justice system and, more generally, for restoring a sense of responsibility to organizations, occupations, and society. Aside from Kamerman, the contributors are William C. Collins, Charles Fethe, Gilbert Geis, Robert J. Kelly, Alison Liebling, Jess Maghan, Mark Harrison Moore, Paul Neurath, John Rakis, William Rentzmann, and Jose E. Sanchez., Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1998, 6<

ISBN: 9780809322121

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Carbondale, Illinois, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois Univ Pr. New. 1998. Paperback. 0809322129 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 304 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword Preface 1 The Social Construction of Responsibility 3 2 Philosophical Perspectives on Responsibility and Excuse 15 3 Superintending "Bankruptcies" in Child Rearing: A Family Court Model of Juvenile Justice 33 4 Cell Out: Renting Out the Responsibility for the Criminally Confined 49 5 Managing to Prevent Prison Suicide: Are Staff at Risk Too? 68 6 "It's Not Your Fault!" A Message to Offenders from Criminal Justice and Corrections 87 7 Responsibility - A Key Word in the Danish Prison System 94 8 Moral Disengagement and the Role of Ideology in the Displacement and Diffusion of Responsibility among Terrorists * 9 Responsibility, Anxiety, and Organizational Deviance: The Systemic and Elusive Properties of Responsibility in Organizations and Groups * 10 Helping Offenders Accept Personal Responsibility: Strategies for Controlling Criminal Behavior 155 Conclusion: Negotiating Responsibility in an "Age of Innocence" * Epilogue: Why Don't They Hit Back? * List of Contributors 195. -- DESCRIPTION: With this collection of essays, Jack Kamerman presents the first sustained examination of one of the underpinnings of the operation of the criminal justice system: the issue of responsibility for actions and, as a consequence, the issue of accountability. Unique in the breadth of its approach, this volume examines the issue of responsibility from the perspectives of criminal justice professionals, sociologists, philosophers, and public administrators from four countries. Attacking the problem on various levels, the essayists look first at the assumptions made by criminal justice institutions regarding offender responsibility, then turn to the views of offenders on the causes of their own actions and to the consequences of offenders either to accept or deny responsibility. These scholars also examine the social and psychological circumstances under which people in general accept or deny responsibility for what they do, thus providing the basis for understanding the process of social distance as a major precondition for people to commit atrocities without seeing themselves as responsible. Understanding the circumstances under which people either distance themselves from or embrace responsibility enables criminologists to make grounded recommendations for reordering responsibility in the criminal justice system and, more generally, for restoring a sense of responsibility to organizations, occupations, and society. Aside from Kamerman, the contributors are William C. Collins, Charles Fethe, Gilbert Geis, Robert J. Kelly, Alison Liebling, Jess Maghan, Mark Harrison Moore, Paul Neurath, John Rakis, William Rentzmann, and Jose E. Sanchez., Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1998, 6<

1998, ISBN: 9780809322121

Southern Illinois University Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Second, 304 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.12 kg, Strafrecht, Recht, Kategorien, Bücher, Krimin… More...

Southern Illinois University Press, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Second, 304 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-11-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.12 kg, Strafrecht, Recht, Kategorien, Bücher, Kriminologie, Sozialwissenschaft, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Kriminalität, Gesellschaft, Politik & Geschichte, Therapien & Behandlungen, Psychologie & Hilfe, Ratgeber, Kamerman, Jack B. Southern Illinois University Press, 1998<

ISBN: 9780809322121

Paperback / softback. New. These essays present a study of the issue of responsibility for actions in the criminal justice system. Attacking the problem on various levels, the contributo… More...

Paperback / softback. New. These essays present a study of the issue of responsibility for actions in the criminal justice system. Attacking the problem on various levels, the contributors look at the assumptions made by institutions regarding offender responsibility, and then turn to the views of the offenders., 6<