Tomorrow's Eve
Title | Tomorrow's Eve PDF eBook |
Author | Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780252069550 |
"Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to create the perfect woman--and voilà! Tomorrow's Eve is served. Robert Martin Adams's graceful translation is the first to bring to English readers this captivating fable of a Thomas Edison-like inventor and his creation, the radiant and tragic android Hadaly. Adams's introduction sketches the uncompromising idealism of the proud but penurious aristocrat Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste, Count Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, a friend and admired colleague of Charles Baudelaire, Stèphane Mallarmé, and Richard Wagner. Villiers dazzles us with a gallery of electronic wonders while unsettling us with the implications of his (and our) increasingly mechanized and mechanical society. A witty and acerbic tale in which human nature, spiritual values, and scientific possibilities collide, Tomorrow's Eve retains an enduring freshness and edge." --Descripción del editor.
L'Eve future
Title | L'Eve future PDF eBook |
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Release | 1922 |
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L'Eve future
Title | L'Eve future PDF eBook |
Author | Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam |
Publisher | Gallimard Education |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Il s'agit de créer une femme artificielle, qui évite les inconvénients des femmes réelles. D'où un amour impossible pour une femme qui n'existe pas.
The Future of Business
Title | The Future of Business PDF eBook |
Author | Rohit Talwar |
Publisher | Fast Future Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 591 |
Release | 2015-03-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0993295819 |
The Future of Business explores how the commercial world is being transformed by the complex interplay between social, economic and political shifts, disruptive ideas, bold strategies and breakthroughs in science and technology. Over 60 contributors from 21 countries explore how the business landscape will be reshaped by factors as diverse as the modification of the human brain and body, 3D printing, alternative energy sources, the reinvention of government, new business models, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and the potential emergence of the Star Trek economy.
The Future of Public Health
Title | The Future of Public Health PDF eBook |
Author | Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1988-01-15 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309581907 |
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Future People
Title | Future People PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Mulgan |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2006-01-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191536032 |
What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He argues that the resulting theory accounts for a wide range of independently plausible intuitions - covering individual morality, intergenerational justice, and international justice. In particular, the moderate consequentialist approach is superior to its two main rivals in this area - person-affecting theories and traditional consequentialism. The former fall foul of Parfit's Non-Identity Problem, while the latter are invariably implausibly demanding. Mulgan also claims that most puzzles in contemporary value theory (such as Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion) are actually puzzles in the theory of right action, and can only be solved if we abandon strict consequentialism for a more moderate alternative. The heart of the book is the first systematic exploration of the rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. Mulgan demostrates that this account is superior to all available alternatives, both consequentialist and non-consequentialist. Once we recognise the intergenerational dimension, moral and political philosophy cannot be considered in isolation. The latter must be founded on the former. Rule consequentialism provides the best foundation for a theory of intergenerational justice. Future People brings together several different contemporary philosophical discussions: obligations to future generations, the morality of individual reproduction, the demands of morality, and international justice. While the focus is on developing a new account, there are also substantial discussions of alternative views, especially contract-based accounts of intergenerational justice and competing forms of consequentialism.
Tomorrow's Eve
Title | Tomorrow's Eve PDF eBook |
Author | Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam |
Publisher | Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
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This is a witty and biting fable of a Thomas Edison-like inventor who creates the radiant and tragic android Hadaly, and the lovelorn aristocrat who falls for the man-made perfect woman who is conveniently adjustable, so that he may make her at his will to his taste and social needs.