John Lawrence Hill Livres

Although the illustrious career of Sherlock Holmes has been documented in innumerable stories over the decades, some accounts have remained classified due to their extremely sensitive nature ... until now. Cases involving major historical figures and topics -Winston Churchill's request to investigate the emerging Nazi Party, the emergency surgery on the British monarch, the apparent suicide of a leading suffragist and the strange death of an American president - have been locked away, sometimes with explicit instructions that they be kept from public view well into the future. Now, these cases are available to readers in the collection The Undiscovered Archives of Sherlock Holmes. Each of these seven stories is linked to a major historical figure or event. The actual nature of the case had often been misunderstood for a century and more because of the need to respect the privacy of those involved and, in some cases, to avoid potentially embarrassing disclosures and diplomatic controversies

The "natural law" worldview developed over the course of almost two thousand years beginning with Plato and Aristotle and culminating with St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This tradition holds that the world is ordered, intelligible and good, that there are objective moral truths which we can know and that human beings can achieve true happiness only by following our inborn nature, which draws us toward our own perfection. Most accounts of the natural law are based on a God-centered understanding of the world. After the Natural Law traces this tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas and then describes how and why modern philosophers such as Descartes, Locke and Hobbes began to chip away at this foundation. The book argues that natural law is a necessary foundation for our most important moral and political values -- freedom, human rights, equality, responsibility and human dignity, among others. Without a theory of natural law, these values lose their coherence: we literally cannot make sense of them given the assumptions of modern philosophy. Part I of the book traces the development of natural law theory from Plato and Aristotle through the crowning achievement of Thomas Aquinas. Part II explores how modern philosophers have systematically chipped away at the only coherent foundation for these values. As a result, our most important moral and political ideals today are incoherent. Modern political and moral thinkers have been led either to dilute the meaning of such terms as freedom or the moral good -- or abandon these ideas altogether. Thus, modern philosophy and political thought are leading us either toward anarchy or totalitarianism. The conclusion, entitled "Why God Matters", shows how even the philosophical assumptions of the natural law depend on a personal God. -- Provided by publisher

The book presents a compelling moral case for vegetarianism, addressing various dimensions such as animal rights, health benefits, global ecological impact, and the issue of world hunger. It systematically counters common objections to a meat-free lifestyle and delves into the reasons behind the slow adoption of vegetarianism despite strong supporting evidence.

Delving into historical crimes, this collection features three previously sealed cases involving Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. "A Grotesquery in Limehouse" investigates the murder of a Belgian businessman, exposing the dark legacy of King Leopold II. "The Disappearances at the Flannan Light" tackles the mystery of three lighthouse keepers who vanished in Scotland. Lastly, "The Case of the Shattered Propeller" explores the 1908 crash of the Wright Flyer, shedding light on aviation history. Edited by John Lawrence, a history expert, these tales intertwine fiction with real events.

Spring 1968 Formerly inseparable, five boys, known affectionately as 'The Heroes', all of them eight years of age, school together, play together and explore together. One day in the spring term, one of them dies suddenly, in the arms of his teacher and their headmaster goes missing without a trace. May 2019 Fifty years later, local private investigators, Robert Fox and Rosemary Bennett are engaged by the dead boy's sister to find out if the headmaster is still alive, because he may hold the key as to why her brother, Derek, died. Everyone says that he died of natural causes, but the boy's sister believes it is something more sinister. The two private investigators seek out the four remaining boys and their teacher, to help them in their quest for the truth about what happened to her brother and of the headmaster's disappearance. But they are not the only ones seeking them out. The boys each have held a chilling secret, and someone wants to keep it that way, no matter what it takes. Will Fox and Bennet find out what the boys know before someone else does?

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Die klassische Tradition des Naturrechts, die über zweitausend Jahre mit Platon und Aristoteles begann und im 13. Jahrhundert bei Thomas von Aquin ihren Höhepunkt fand, postuliert eine geordnete, verständliche und gute Welt mit objektiven moralischen Wahrheiten. Diese Wahrheiten können erkannt werden, und das wahre Glück wird durch die Verfolgung unserer angeborenen Natur erreicht, die uns zur Vervollkommnung führt. Die meisten Naturrechtsansätze basieren auf einem theozentrischen Weltverständnis. Das Buch verfolgt die Entwicklung dieser Tradition von Platon und Aristoteles zu Thomas von Aquin und zeigt, wie moderne Philosophen wie Descartes, Locke und Hobbes begannen, dieses Fundament zu untergraben. Es wird argumentiert, dass das Naturrecht essenziell für unsere zentralen moralischen und politischen Werte wie Freiheit, Menschenrechte und Gleichheit ist. Ohne eine Theorie des Naturrechts verlieren diese Werte ihre Kohärenz und sind unter den Annahmen der modernen Philosophie nicht mehr sinnvoll. Teil I behandelt die Entwicklung der Naturrechtstheorie, während Teil II die systematische Ablehnung dieser kohärenten Grundlage durch moderne Denker untersucht, was zu einer Unzusammenhängigkeit unserer wichtigsten Ideale führt. Die Schlussfolgerung zeigt, dass selbst die philosophischen Annahmen des Naturrechts von einem persönlichen Gott abhängen.