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What motivates soldiers to fight?
Many commentators have claimed that Russia’s military leaders must have underestimated the Ukrainians’ resilience and battle morale. This is most likely correct, but would it even have been possible for the Russian commanders to have made a more accurate estimate? There is reason to doubt that they could have done so. The only way to assess an enemy’s willingness to fight is to actually engage in combat.
What Killed the Ancien Régime? – - David Wootton
A reader might expect France Before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime to live up to its subtitle and be a book about the unraveling of the ancien régime. Its author, Jon Elster, tells us that the book can be read as a long footnote to Tocqueville’s The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution (1856), and that is certainly a book about the long-drawn-out crisis of the old regime. His book is shaped, he says, by the need to understand the “transformation and breakdown” of that regime.
Jon Elster · Snobs · LRB 5 November 1981
In his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France – in the very chair occupied today by Pierre Bourdieu – Raymond Aron coined the word ‘sociodicy’: an apt term for the apologetic tendency of much contemporary social science, a tendency which has a long ancestry, going back to the theodicies of the 17th century.
The Nuts and Bolts of History
A caricature of the Cabinet Noir, 1815 THE CABINET NOIR or the black room was an infamous practice of opening letters of high officials, members of the nobility and virtually anyone who mattered in the ancien régime. Put in place during the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643), it became a regular practice under his successors. One could dismiss it as fulfilling prurient desires on part of French monarchs or even spying on notables in his kingdom.
Victor Moberger, Bullshit, Pseudoscience and Pseudophilosophy - PhilPapers
Authors Abstract In this article I give a unified account of three phenomena: bullshit, pseudoscience and pseudophilosophy. My aims are partly conceptual, partly evaluative. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's seminal analysis of bullshit, I give an account of the three phenomena and of how they are related, and I use this account to explain what is bad about all three.
Some notes on ‘Populism’
The article criticizes the idea that we can find the ‘real meaning’ of populism and focuses instead on six psychological attitudes and political programmes that the term ‘populism’ can invoke: Lake Wobegon populism, short-termism, Trumpism, the attraction of simple solutions, responses to inequality, and direct democracy. While conceptually distinct, these are often found together and can reinforce each other.
Prøv newsboy cappen, du kan bære den
En trend kan udspringe mange steder fra. Det kan være fra magasiner, fodboldspillere, Instagram eller fra musikere. Ofte sker det dog, at man kan spore en tendens tilbage til en film eller en tv serie, hvori der har medvirket en eller flere karakterer, som fascinerer os. Carrey Bradshaw er et godt eksempel på en trendsættende karakter, der først huserede i tv-serien Sex and The City og siden i et par spillefilm i samme univers.
Den hurtige vinterstøvle
Så blev det koldt med sne og storm og alt muligt! Har du styr på vinterstøvlerne, eller synes du ligesom jeg, at netop den type fodtøj er pivirriterende at bruge penge på, fordi – lad os være ærlige – de sjældent er særlig pæne, i forhold til hvad du slipper for dem. “Så koldt er det jo heller ikke”, siger man til sig selv, og i øvrigt er de utroligt klodsede at stavre rundt i.
Broderier i cool københavner-stil
Kender du det, når man er på storbyferie og går væk fra hovedgaderne, op ad de små stræder, ind i gyderne og finder små “uopdagede perler” af fine og finurlige butikker? Man får en romantisk følelse af at have fundet noget unikt, og man bobler nærmest over af begejstring, når man skal fortælle vennerne om oplevelsen ved hjemkomsten, men holder selvfølgelig lidt igen med selve placeringen.
Regnjakken til tørvejr og uvejr
Der er ikke noget, der hedder dÃ¥rligt vejr – kun dÃ¥rlig pÃ¥klædning. Og dÃ¥rlig pÃ¥klædning forekommer ofte, fordi den rigtige pÃ¥klædning er grim. SÃ¥dan er det i hvert fald for mit vedkommende. Regntøj er notorisk kendt for ikke at være særlig flatterende, og i bund og grund bare ligne hvad det er: en praktisk nødvendighed.
Tool-box or toy-box? Hard obscurantism in economic modeling
Fredericks, S., Loewenstein, G., & O’Donoghue, T. (2004). Time discounting and time preference. In C. Camerer, G. Loewenstein, & M. Rabin (Eds.), Advances in Behavioral Economics (pp. 162–222). New York: Russell Sage.Google Scholar
Deliberative Democracy
This Book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by Crossref. King, Preston 1998. Democracy and the persistence of power. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 1, Issue. 4, p. 93. Lynch, Marc 1998. Abandoning Iraq: Jordan's alliances and the politics of state identity. Security Studies, Vol. 8, Issue. 2-3, p. 347. Seippel, Ørnulf 1999.
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Jon Elster Abstract Text Bibliography Notes Author Abstract Dans cet article, on se pose la question contrefactuelle de savoir ce qui se serait passe si Marx et Freud n’avaient jamais vécu. On examine d’une part leur impact sur le bien-être de l’humanité et de l’autre part leur impact sur notre connaissance de l’homme et de la société. On se demande aussi si d’autres personnes auraient pris leur place et accompli ce qu’ils ont réalisé.
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