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Injunctions against intermediaries in the European Union : accountable but not liable?
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ISBN: 9781108415064 9781108227421 9781108400213 1108415067 1108400213 1108227422 1108246176 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In the European Union, courts have been expanding the enforcement of intellectual property rights by employing injunctions to compel intermediaries to provide assistance, despite no allegation of wrongdoing against these parties. These prospective injunctions, designed to prevent future harm, thus hold parties accountable where no liability exists. Effectively a new type of regulatory tool, these injunctions are distinct from the conventional secondary liability in tort. At present, they can be observed in orders to compel website blocking, content filtering, or disconnection, but going forward, their use is potentially unlimited. This book outlines the paradigmatic shift this entails for the future of the Internet and analyzes the associated legal and economic opportunities and problems.


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Midlife : A Philosophical Guide
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ISBN: 1400888476 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Philosophical wisdom and practical advice for overcoming the problems of middle ageHow can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can help you thrive.You will learn why missing out might be a good thing, how options are overrated, and when you should be glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality. And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present, how it could solve your midlife crisis, and why meditation helps.Ranging from Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and John Stuart Mill to Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as drawing on Setiya's own experience, Midlife combines imaginative ideas, surprising insights, and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and wit, Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.

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Middle age --- Midlife crisis. --- Psychological aspects. --- A Book Of. --- Accountant. --- Adoption. --- Affair. --- Altruism. --- Anatta. --- Aphorism. --- Aristotle. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Awareness. --- Bernard Williams. --- Boredom. --- Buddhism. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Career. --- Cognitive therapy. --- Consciousness. --- Death anxiety (psychology). --- Derek Parfit. --- Elliott Jaques. --- Emptiness. --- Epicurus. --- Equanimity. --- Ethics. --- Existence. --- Existential crisis. --- Explanation. --- Felicific calculus. --- Four Noble Truths. --- Generosity. --- Grief. --- Hedonism. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Immanuel Kant. --- Injunction. --- Irony. --- James Mill. --- Jean-Paul Sartre. --- Jeremy Bentham. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Lecture. --- Literature. --- Lucretius. --- Meaningful life. --- Middle age. --- Narrative. --- Neglect. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- Oppression. --- Optimism. --- Parenting. --- Parerga and Paralipomena. --- Personal History. --- Phenomenon. --- Philip Larkin. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physician. --- Pleasure. --- Poetry. --- Polemic. --- Precedent. --- Princeton University Press. --- Prose. --- Protest. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Quantity. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Retrograde amnesia. --- Risk aversion. --- Sadness. --- Satisficing. --- Self-consciousness. --- Self-help book. --- Self-interest. --- Shame. --- Simone de Beauvoir. --- Skepticism. --- Suffering. --- Suggestion. --- Symptom. --- The Myth of Sisyphus. --- The Other Hand. --- The Power of Now. --- Theory. --- Thought experiment. --- Thought. --- Toothache. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Utilitarianism. --- Virginia Woolf. --- Wealth. --- Well-being. --- Wishful thinking. --- Writing. --- Year.


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The Infidel and the Professor : David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
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ISBN: 1400888468 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives, sharing what Dennis Rasmussen calls the greatest of all philosophical friendships. The Infidel and the Professor is the first book to tell the fascinating story of the friendship of these towering Enlightenment thinkers-and how it influenced their world-changing ideas.The book follows Hume and Smith's relationship from their first meeting in 1749 until Hume's death in 1776. It describes how they commented on each other's writings, supported each other's careers and literary ambitions, and advised each other on personal matters, most notably after Hume's quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Members of a vibrant intellectual scene in Enlightenment Scotland, Hume and Smith made many of the same friends (and enemies), joined the same clubs, and were interested in many of the same subjects well beyond philosophy and economics-from psychology and history to politics and Britain's conflict with the American colonies. The book reveals that Smith's private religious views were considerably closer to Hume's public ones than is usually believed. It also shows that Hume contributed more to economics-and Smith contributed more to philosophy-than is generally recognized.Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship that had great consequences for modern thought.

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PHILOSOPHY / Political. --- PHILOSOPHY / Social. --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Smith, Adam --- Hume, David --- Smith, Adam, --- Hume, David, --- 1700-1799 --- A Treatise of Human Nature. --- Adam Ferguson. --- Allusion. --- Andrew Millar. --- Anecdote. --- Atheism. --- Autobiography. --- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. --- Bill Curtis. --- British Library. --- Career. --- Censure. --- Christian mortalism. --- Cowardice. --- Criticism of religion. --- David Hume. --- Deism. --- Deity. --- Denis Diderot. --- Dialogue. --- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. --- Discourses (Meher Baba). --- Division of labour. --- Dugald Stewart. --- Duke of Buccleuch. --- Edinburgh University Library. --- Edward Gibbon. --- Eloquence. --- Enthusiasm. --- Equanimity. --- Essays (Montaigne). --- Ethics. --- Existence of God. --- Explanation. --- Four Dissertations. --- Francis Hutcheson (philosopher). --- Free trade. --- Frugality. --- Generosity. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Greatness. --- Harvard University. --- Henry Mackenzie. --- Hutcheson. --- Illustration. --- Impiety. --- Inference. --- Injunction. --- Irreligion. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Jeremy Bentham. --- John Home. --- John Ramsay McCulloch. --- Joseph Black. --- Jurisprudence. --- Lecture. --- Library. --- Literature. --- Magnanimity. --- Mercantilism. --- Montesquieu. --- Morality. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- Natural religion. --- Pamphlet. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of religion. --- Philosophy. --- Physician. --- Playwright. --- Political economy. --- Polytheism. --- Princeton University Press. --- Protestantism. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Reason. --- Religion. --- Religious fanaticism. --- Ridicule. --- Scottish Enlightenment. --- Skepticism. --- Symptom. --- Teleological argument. --- The History of England (Hume). --- The Other Hand. --- The Select Society. --- The Theory of Moral Sentiments. --- The Wealth of Nations. --- Thought. --- Treatise. --- Tufts University. --- University of Glasgow. --- Walter Bagehot. --- Wealth. --- Whigs (British political party). --- William Warburton. --- Writing.

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