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Leibniz, this study argues, is the genuine initiator of German Idealism. His analysis of freedom as spontaneity and the relations he establishes among freedom, justice, and progress underlie Kant's ideas of rightful interaction and his critiques of Enlightened absolutism. Freedom and Perfection offers a historical examination of perfectionism, its political implications and transformations in German thought between 1650 and 1850. Douglas Moggach demonstrates how Kant's followers elaborated a new ethical-political approach, 'post-Kantian perfectionism', which, in the context of the French Revolution, promoted the conditions for free activity rather than state-directed happiness. Hegel, the Hegelian School, and Marx developed this approach further with reference to the historical process as the history of freedom. Highlighting the decisive importance of Leibniz for subsequent theorists of the state, society, and economy, Freedom and Perfection offers a new interpretation of important schools of modern thought and a vantage point for contemporary political debates.

Combining historical analysis and contemporary interviews with Muslim peace advocates, this book develops an empirically-grounded survey of Islamic philosophies of nonviolence and a general analysis of the phenomenon. Woerner-Powell sheds light on how Islamic thought might play a larger role in secular and inter-religious debates.

Sustainable migration is the new objective of the EU migration policy. But what instruments should be put in place to achieve it and what does it imply for migrants' rights? This book provides the first conclusive research on sustainable migration and its potential legal implications. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Wall Painting, Civic Ceremony and Sacred Space in Early Renaissance Italy investigates how mural paintings affirmed civic identities by visualizing ideas, experiences, memory, and history. Jean Cadogan focuses on four large mural decorations created by celebrated Florentine artists between 1377 and 1484. The paintings adorn important sacred spaces- the chapel of the Holy Belt in the cathedral of Prato, the monumental cemetery in Pisa's cathedral square, and the cathedral of Spoleto -- yet extoll civic virtues. Building on previously unpublished archival documents, primary sources, and recent scholarship, Cadogan relates the architectural and institutional histories of these sites, reconstructs the ceremonies that unfolded within them, and demonstrates how these sacred spaces were central to the historical, institutional, and religious identities of the host cities. She also offers new insights into the motives and mechanics of patronage and artistic production. Cadogan's study shows how images  reflected and shaped civic identity, even as they impressed through their scale and artistry.

This is the first major study of Greek lyric poetry in imperial Greek culture. It shows how knowledge of lyric enabled imperial writers to demonstrate a more sophisticated level of paideia; and reveals how lyric traditions mobilised distinctive discourses of self-fashioning, local identity, community-making and power crucial for Greeks under Rome.

Provides an overview on the use of punitive drug policies in Asia and offers a comparative perspective on the implications of the 'war on drugs' in the region characterised by disproportionate penalties, denial of legal rights, exploding prison populations, and unquestioning faith in the deterrent effects of the death penalty.

This study demonstrates that Origen of Alexandria believed the Gospel writers themselves were figurative readers of the life of Jesus. Origen thus found no contradiction between discerning the truth of the Christian Gospels and facing the critical challenges of their literary form and formation.

Covering formulation, algorithms and structural results and linking theory to real-world applications in controlled sensing (including social learning, adaptive radars and sequential detection), this book focuses on the conceptual foundations of partially observed Markov decision processes (POMDPs). It emphasizes structural results in stochastic dynamic programming, enabling graduate students and researchers in engineering, operations research, and economics to understand the underlying unifying themes without getting weighed down by mathematical technicalities. In light of major advances in machine learning over the past decade, this edition includes a new Part V on inverse reinforcement learning as well as a new chapter on non-parametric Bayesian inference (for Dirichlet processes and Gaussian processes), variational Bayes and conformal prediction.

Everyone is exposed to manipulation daily, and everyone manipulates too. The impact of manipulations in personal, social, and political life is enormous. But which influences count as manipulations, and how should they be assessed morally? This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of the meaning and moral status of manipulation.

Public attention on the mental health crisis underscores the need for reforms. This book highlights key contributions from sociologists, offering vital insights into the understanding and treatment of mental health and illness. It serves as an essential resource for advancing mental health care.

This book covers the mathematical methods needed to understand life dynamics, focusing on cellular processes, adaptation, morphogenesis, and the origin of life. It is indispensable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers, interested in theory and modeling in biology, and how these intersect with mathematics and physics.

Engineers, designers, applied mathematicians, physicists, and historians of science can now directly access James Clerk Maxwell's seminal ideas in structural mechanics. Annotations of his texts combined with summaries of the latest research show how this often-overlooked aspect of Maxwell's work has immediate relevance for 21st-century design.

"We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. But how is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement? This book explains the social-contract tradition from its beginnings in the English Revolution, through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau to its culmination in Rawls"--

Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book connects that story to ideas about chance, luck, emotions, and psychology, and reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world.

Constitutional courts are democracy's guardians, yet their ability to withstand challenges to their authority is tenuous. Using surveys fielded in the US, Germany, Poland, and Hungary, this book demonstrates that a court's efficacy depends crucially on both its independence and citizens' support for the rule of law.

Shows the importance of the Middle Republic for the broader study of Roman and Mediterranean history, with the forging in Italy of new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Employs a range of approaches from numismatics to bioarchaeology, landscape archaeology, fiscal sociology, art history, and beyond.

Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpicks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests in the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macau.