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In western democracies, 'conservative' and 'right-wing' are often used interchangeably, as near-synonyms. That is not always accurate, but it has more than incidental validity. Certainly the enemy is in both cases the same: the political left. (Although left-wing groups and individuals may have conservative social and cultural attitudes, they are not generally accepted, by self-identified conservatives, as part of the same movement). On economic policy and the economic system, conservatives and the right generally support the free market, al ...

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Conservatism, Conservatism - Tradition in conservatism, Conservatism - Some traditional values, Conservatism - Classification of conservatism, Conservatism - Cultural conservatism, Conservatism - Religious conservatism, Conservatism - Burkean conservatism, Conservatism - Conservatism's effect on history, Conservatism - Conservatism and nationalism, Conservatism - Liberal conservative?, Conservatism - Nature and environment, Conservatism - Biological theories on racial differences, Conservatism - Conservatism and the Right, Conservatism - Conservatives in various countries, Conservatism - Europe, Conservatism - China

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Originally, Pound conceived of Cantos XVII - XXVII as a group that would follow the first volume by starting with the Renaissance and ending with the Russian Revolution. He then added a further three cantos and the whole eventually appeared as A Draft of XXX Cantos in an edition of 200 copies. The major locus of these cantos is the city of Venice. Canto XVII opens with the words 'So that', echoing the end of Canto I, and then moves on to another Dionysus-related metamorphosis story. The rest of the canto is concerned with Venic ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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The first four cantos of this volume (Cantos XXXI - XXXVI) use extensive quotations from the letters and other writings of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and others to deal with the emergence of the fledgling United States and, particularly, the American banking system. Canto XXXI opens with the Malatesta family motto Tempus loquendi, tempus ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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Pound had been discussing the possibility of writing a long poem since around 1905, but work did not begin until sometime between 1912 and 1917, when the initial versions of the first three cantos of the proposed 'poem of some length' were published in the journal Poetry. In this version, the poem began very much as a direct address by the poet, not to the reader but to the ghost of Robert Browning. Pound came to realise that this need to be a controlling narrative voice was working against the revolutionary intent of his own poetic p ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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As it lacks any plot or definite ending, The Cantos can appear on first reading to be chaotic or structureless. One early critic, R.P. Blackmur, wrote, in his 1934 essay Masks of Ezra Pound (reprinted in Sullivan) "The work of Ezra Pound has been for most people almost as difficult to understand as Soviet Russia… The Cantos are not complex, they are complicated". The issue of incoherence of the work is reflected in the equivocal note sounded in the final two more-or-less completed cantos; according to the William Cooks ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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In recent history there have been numerous instances of collapse of state authority, sometimes prompted by war but also often due to implosion of the state. In some cases, state collapse is followed by lawlessness, rioting, looting and, if disarray lasts long enough, warlordism. Although such societies are often described as anarchy, they are not organized according to anarchist principles. However, there are instances in which a society peacefully organizes itself without a government or other form of centralized power, along philoso ...

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Past and present anarchist communities, Past and present anarchist communities - Historical examples of societies successfully organized according to anarchist principles, Past and present anarchist communities - Libertatia 1670's to 1690's, Past and present anarchist communities - Utopia 1847 to 1860's, Past and present anarchist communities - Modern times 1851 to late 1860's, Past and present anarchist communities - Whiteway Colony 1898 to present, Past and present anarchist communities - Spanish revolution 1936 to 1939, Past and present anarchist communities - Ukraine and the Makhnovist movement 1918 to 1921, Past and present anarchist communities - Tolstoyan Agricultural Communes 1921-1937, Past and present anarchist communities - The autonomous Shinmin region 1929-1931, Past and present anarchist communities - Examples of revolts and uprisings with anarchist qualities, Past and present anarchist communities - Israeli Kibbutz Movement, Past and present anarchist communities - Italian Factory Occupations and Councils, Past and present anarchist communities - Hungarian Revolution 1956, Past and present anarchist communities - Situationist and Worker/Student Occupation Movement May 1968, Past and present anarchist communities - Kwangju Uprising May 1980, Past and present anarchist communities - Polish revolution/Solidarity 1980 to 1982, Past and present anarchist communities - Radicalism in Grenada 1979 to 1983, Past and present anarchist communities - Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities, Past and present anarchist communities - Christiania 1970's to present, Past and present anarchist communities - Cascadia Free State 1996 US, Past and present anarchist communities - Argentina 2001 to present, Past and present anarchist communities - Examples of projects and other movements with anarchist qualities, Past and present anarchist communities - Icelandic Commonwealth 930 to 1262, Past and present anarchist communities - Holy Experiment Quaker Pennsylvania 1681-1690, Past and present anarchist communities - Los Horcones Community 1973 to present, Past and present anarchist communities - Freetown Christiania, Past and present anarchist communities - Squatter movements, Past and present anarchist communities - Free Software movement, Past and present anarchist communities - Galt's Gulch frontierist movements, Past and present anarchist communities - Data havens cyberspace and permanent travelers

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The Cantos has always been a controversial work, initially so because of the experimental nature of the writing. The controversy has intensified since 1940 when Pound's very public stance on the war in Europe and his support for Mussolini's fascism became widely known. Much critical discussion of the poem has focused on the relationship between, on the one hand, the economic thesis on usura, Pound's anti-Semitism, his adulation of Confucian ideals of government and his attitude towards fascism, and, on the other, passages of ly ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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Cantos XLII, XLIII and XLIV move to the Sienese bank the Monte dei Paschi. Under the rule of the Arch Duke Pietro Leopoldo, this became a low-interest, not-for-profit credit institution whose funds were based on local productivity as represented by the natural increase generated by the grazing of sheep on community land (the "BANK of the grassland" of Canto XIII). As such, it represents a Poundian non-capitalist ideal. Canto XLV is a litany against Usura or usury, which Pound defines as a charge on credit regardless of potentia ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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These eleven cantos are based on the first eleven volumes of the twelve-volume Histoire generale de la Chine by Joseph-Anna-Marie de Moyriac de Mailla (volume 12 being an index). De Mailla was a French Jesuit who spent 37 years in Peking and wrote his history there. The work was completed in 1730 but not published until 1777-1783. De Mailla was very much an Enlightenment figure and his view of Chinese history reflects this. He found Confucian political philosophy, with its emphasis on rational order, very much to his liking. He also d ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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In 1958, Pound was declared incurably insane and permanently incapable of standing trial. Consequent on this, he was released from St Elizabeth's on condition that he return to Europe, which he promptly did. At first, he lived with his daughter Mary in the Tyrol, but soon returned to Rapallo. A crisis of belief (In November 1959, Pound wrote to his publisher James Laughlin that he "has forgotten what or which politics he ever had ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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Despite all the controversy surrounding both poem and poet, The Cantos has been influential in the development of English-language long poems since the appearance of the early sections during the 1920s. Amongst poets of Pound's own generation, both H.D. and William Carlos Williams wrote long poems that show this influence. Almost all of H.D.'s poetry from 1940 onwards takes the form of long sequences, and her Helen in Egypt, written during the 1950s, covers much of the same Homeric ground as The Cantos, but from a ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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Thrones was the second volume of cantos written while Pound was incarcerated in St. Elizabeth's. In the same 1962 interview, Pound said of this section of the poem: "The thrones in Dante's Paradiso are for the spirits of the people who have been responsible for good government. The thrones in The Cantos are an attempt to move out from egoism and to establish some definition of an order ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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Pound was flown from Pisa to Washington to face trial on a charge of treason in 1946. Found unfit to stand trial because of the state of his mental health, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where he was to remain until 1958. Here he began to entertain writers and academics with an interest in his work and to write, working on translations of the Confucian Book of Odes and of Sophocles' play the Women of Trachis as well as two new sections of the cantos; the first of these was Rock Drill. The two mai ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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This section of the cantos is, for the most part, made up of fragmentary citations from the writings of John Adams. Pound's intentions appear to be to show Adams as an example of the rational Enlightenment leader, thereby continuing the primary theme of the preceding China Cantos sequence which these cantos also follow from chronologically. Adams is depicted as a rounded figure; he is a strong leader with interests in political, legal and cultural matters in much the same way that Malatesta and Mussolini are portrayed elsewhere in the poem. ...

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The Cantos, The Cantos - Controversy, The Cantos - Structure, The Cantos - I – XVI, The Cantos - XVII – XXX, The Cantos - XXXI – XLI XI New Cantos, The Cantos - XLII – LI Fifth Decad called also Leopoldine Cantos, The Cantos - LII – LXI The China Cantos, The Cantos - LXII – LXXI The Adams Cantos, The Cantos - LXXII – LXXIII, The Cantos - LXXIV – LXXXIV The Pisan Cantos, The Cantos - LXXXV – XCV Section: Rock-Drill, The Cantos - XCVI – CIX Thrones, The Cantos - Drafts and fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII, The Cantos - Legacy

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Titor's explanation of time travel is premised on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics. In this model, as presented by Titor, every situation that can go in more than one direction, goes in every possible direction, and each possibility is the origin point of a new parallel universe or "worldline." In time travel, one does not actually enter one's own past because, at a minimum, one's own presence in the past makes a change and generates a new, ever-expanding set of worldlines. One enters rather the past of a closely-related wor ...

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John Titor, John Titor - Overview, John Titor - Titor's description of the future, John Titor - Titor's predictions in detail, John Titor - Iraq War, John Titor - 2008 Olympics, John Titor - Civil unrest, John Titor - Civil war, John Titor - Nuclear war, John Titor - China's conquest of Asian nations, John Titor - CERN's research, John Titor - Mad cow disease, John Titor - Genetically-modified food, John Titor - Quantum physics, John Titor - IBM 5100, John Titor - Religion in America, John Titor - View of the present in the future, John Titor - The question of inevitability, John Titor - Divergence of worldlines, John Titor - Criticism of Titor's claims, John Titor - Falsifiability, John Titor - Titor and the Year 2038 Problem, John Titor - Titor in other media, John Titor - First Titor, John Titor - Footnotes

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Titor's description of for events between 2000 and 2037 effectively describes World War III and two decades of recovery. He claims that the seeds of this conflict will begin to be seen in 2004/2005 around the time of U.S. presidential election, 2004. Continuing Muslim/Jewish tensions are still a problem at that time but are not the cause; instead, an American civil war is brought on by increasingly intrusive police state tactics more or less resembling the massacres at Waco and Ruby Ridge. The "second civil war" sees those in the cities fighting those in rural areas; Titor claims he fought ...

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John Titor, John Titor - Overview, John Titor - Titor's description of the future, John Titor - Titor's predictions in detail, John Titor - Iraq War, John Titor - 2008 Olympics, John Titor - Civil unrest, John Titor - Civil war, John Titor - Nuclear war, John Titor - China's conquest of Asian nations, John Titor - CERN's research, John Titor - Mad cow disease, John Titor - Genetically-modified food, John Titor - Quantum physics, John Titor - IBM 5100, John Titor - Religion in America, John Titor - View of the present in the future, John Titor - The question of inevitability, John Titor - Divergence of worldlines, John Titor - Criticism of Titor's claims, John Titor - Falsifiability, John Titor - Titor and the Year 2038 Problem, John Titor - Titor in other media, John Titor - First Titor, John Titor - Footnotes

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Main articles: Meta-ethics, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]] ...

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Ethics, Ethics - The first social science, Ethics - Meta-ethics, Ethics - Normative ethics, Ethics - Applied ethics, Ethics - Ethics in religion, Ethics - Ethics in health care, Ethics - Ethics in politics, Ethics - Ethics by cases, Ethics - Descriptive ethics, Ethics - The analytic view

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What Humanist theories do not allow for is the fact that a system of ethics formulated from a human perspective may not be entirely accurate; humans are not necessarily the centre of reality. The philosopher Spinoza argued that we tend to assess things wrongly in terms of their usefulness to us. Spinoza reasoned that if we were to look at things objectively we would discover that everything in the universe has a unique value. Likewise, it is possible that a human-centred or anthropocentric/androcentric ethic is not an accurate depiction of reality, and there is a bigger picture that we may o ...

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Environmental ethics, Environmental ethics - Libertarian Extension, Environmental ethics - Ecologic Extension, Environmental ethics - Conservation Ethics, Environmental ethics - Humanist Theories, Environmental ethics - Anthropocentrism

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Following the bio-centric and eco-holist theory distinctions, Michael Smith further classifies Humanist theories as those that require a set of criteria for moral status and ethical worth, such as sentience. This applies to the work of Peter Singer who advocated a hierarchy of value similar to the one devised by Aristotle which relies on the ability to reason. This was Singer’s solution to the problem that arises when attempting to determine the ...

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Environmental ethics, Environmental ethics - Libertarian Extension, Environmental ethics - Ecologic Extension, Environmental ethics - Conservation Ethics, Environmental ethics - Humanist Theories, Environmental ethics - Anthropocentrism

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Marshall’s ecologic extension places emphasis not on human rights but on the fundamental interdependence of all biological and a-biological entities and their essential diversity. This is the same classification of Smith’s eco-holism, and argues for the intrinsic value inherent in eco-systems or the environment as a whole entity. This category includes James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis; the theory that the planet earth or ‘Gaia spirit’ alters its geo-physiological structure over time in order to ensure the continuation of an ...

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Environmental ethics, Environmental ethics - Libertarian Extension, Environmental ethics - Ecologic Extension, Environmental ethics - Conservation Ethics, Environmental ethics - Humanist Theories, Environmental ethics - Anthropocentrism

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Main articles: Normative ethics, and [[{{{2}}}]], and [[{{{3}}}]], and [[{{{4}}}]]See also:

Ethics, Ethics - The first social science, Ethics - Meta-ethics, Ethics - Normative ethics, Ethics - Applied ethics, Ethics - Ethics in religion, Ethics - Ethics in health care, Ethics - Ethics in politics, Ethics - Ethics by cases, Ethics - Descriptive ethics, Ethics - The analytic view

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Exergy - Carnot and others. In 1824, Sadi Carnot studied the improvements developed for steam engines by James Watt and others. Carnot utilized a purely theoretical perspective for these engines and developed new ideas. He wrote: The question has often been raised whether the motive power of heat is unbounded, whether the possible improvements in steam engines have an assignable limit—a limit by which the nature of things will not allow to be passed by any means whatever... In o ...

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Exergy, Exergy - History, Exergy - Carnot and others, Exergy - Gibbs, Exergy - Mathematical description, Exergy - An application of the second law of thermodynamics, Exergy - A historical and cultural tangent, Exergy - A potential for every thermodynamic situation, Exergy - Applications, Exergy - Engineering applications, Exergy - Applications in natural resource utilization, Exergy - Applications in sustainability, Exergy - Assigning one thermodynamically obtained value to an economic good, Exergy - Implications in the development of complex physical systems, Exergy - Philosophical and cosmological implications, Exergy - Comparison of energy and exergy, Exergy - Exergy is highly multidisciplinary, Exergy - Quality of energy types, Exergy - Exergy of heat available at a temperature, Exergy - See Also

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