The Paradoxes of Unintended ConsequencesRalf Dahrendorf, George Soros Central European University Press, 2000 M01 1 - 417 páginas By choosing the title The Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, the editors wished to encourage the contributors to adopt a dialogue-oriented approach. This volume of essays by Geremek, Goncz, Plesu, Michnik, Kornai, Lepenies and other brilliant intellectuals, was dedicated to George Soros in honor of his seventieth birthday. |
Contenido
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Boors and Angels | 73 |
The Unity of Mankind and the Plurality of States | 89 |
The Historical Dimension | 249 |
Medieval Central Europe An Invention or a Discovery? | 251 |
The Marginality of Totalitarianism | 265 |
The SelfNotFulfilling Prophecy | 285 |
Exile and Emigration The Strange Survival of German Culture | 301 |
Giordano Bruno Nolanus Authoritarian Sage and Martyr for Free Speech | 321 |
The Philosophical Dimension | 335 |
Science and an Open Society Is the Scientific Community a Genuinely Open One? | 337 |
The Legal Dimension | 127 |
Human Rights and Sovereignty | 129 |
The Constitutional Honeymoon Is Over The Paradoxes of PostCommunist Constitution Making | 143 |
Affordable Shame | 163 |
The Economic Dimension | 193 |
Hidden in an Envelope Gratitude Payments to Medical Doctors in Hungary | 195 |
What Could the West Have Done to Help the East? | 215 |
Financial Crises Exchange Rate Arrangements and the IMF | 237 |
Art History at the Crossroads | 351 |
Pornography and the Repressive Function | 363 |
Unexpected Consequences Portfolio Screening and the Ethics of Trading | 383 |
Biography of George Soros | 407 |
Works of George Soros | 409 |
George Soros Philanthropic Initiatives including foundations and programs | 413 |
List of Contributors | |
Términos y frases comunes
aesthetic anti-corruption argue art history artistic authority Barthes became become Boor Bruno Budapest Central European University century citizens claim committed communist concept constitution corruption cosmopolitan countries Court crimes cultural democracy democratic discourse distributive justice doctors East Eastern Europe economic elites erotica ethical Foundation fund genocide George Soros German global gratitude money gratitude payments groups Hitler Holocaust human rights Hungarian Hungary idea Imre Nagy individual institutions intellectual intervention investment István Jews justice major modern moral natural duty Nazi obligations obscene open society Open Society Institute parties percent philosophical Poland Polish political Popper pornography post-communist principle Program punctum question reason reform regime repression responsibility revolution role rule Russia Sajó sexual shame social Soros Foundation Soviet Soviet Union Stalin success theory Thomas Mann tion trade tradition transition victims West Western World Bank Zizek
Pasajes populares
Página 383 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Página 37 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Página 383 - By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Página 302 - It would not be the first time that a nation, defeated on the battlefield and, as it were, annihilated as a political being, has deprived its conquerors of the most sublime fruit of victory by imposing on them the yoke of its own thought.
Página 94 - The main idea is that when a number of persons engage in a mutually advantageous cooperative venture according to rules, and thus restrict their liberty in ways necessary to yield advantages for all, those who have submitted to these restrictions have a right to a similar acquiescence on the part of those who have benefited from their submission.
Página 319 - I had spent six years in St. Petersburg before the war in the best days of the old Russian ballet...
Página 123 - ... we should regard all men as our fellow-citizens and local residents, and there should be one way of life and order, like that of a herd grazing together and nurtured by a common law.
Página 364 - Capture and seduction, confrontation and mutual reinforcement: parents and children, adults and adolescents, educator and students, doctors and patients, the psychiatrist with his hysteric and his perverts, all have played this game continually since the nineteenth century. These attractions, these evasions, these circular incitements have traced around bodies and sexes, not boundaries not to be crossed, but perpetual spirals of power and pleasure.
Página 304 - Germans, became the transcendental method ; but it must be admitted that the German breast was no longer that anatomical region which Locke had intended to probe, but a purely metaphysical point of departure, a migratory ego that could be here, there, and everywhere at once, being present at any point from which thought or volition might be taken to radiate. It was no longer so easy to entrap as the soul of Locke, which he asserted travelled with him in his coach from London to Oxford.
Página 253 - Chartres used to compare us to [puny] dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.190 I readily agree with the foregoing.
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