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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. As always Grayling is erudite and his ideas provide thought for the reader who is not a philosopher or may not have had thoughts on the specific topic except though general knowledge. He provides a logical basis on which to think further about the topic in hand. He writes a well crafted book. ( ) Typically beautifully written history of Liberty from the Reformation to the Patriot Act. Serves as a very useful introduction to the essential discussion about the necessary balance between civil rights, on the one hand, and state security, on the other, in the face of the threat to the west since 9/11: a theme dealt with more directly in Professor Grayling's Liberty in the Age of Terror. Islamicists who hate western society have seemingly succeeded disproportionately in striking at the fundamental principles underpinning that society by causing the successive governments in the US and UK, in particular, to roll back hard-won human rights such as Habeas Corpus, the presumption of innocence and the right to privacy. Dr. Nabeel Yasin, the Iraqi poet, writer, academic and politician,has chosen to discuss A C Grayling's Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Make the Modern West, on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject - Democracy in Iraq, saying that: “Grayling writes about the idea that people need constitutions, that people need freedom from oppression and also people need to express their demands to the state. This is very important because the state should try to provide benefits for people not keep them in jail or oppress them.” The full interview is available here: http://five-books.com/interviews/nabeel-yasin sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a story - and a struggle - that continues to this day as those in power use the threat of terrorism in the 21st century to roll-back the liberties that so many have fought and died to win for us. Including an appendix of landmark documents, including the British and American Bills of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition also includes a new preface by the author reflecting on developments since the book's original publication. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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