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From his earliest work - on personal identity - to his last - on the value of truthfulness - Bernard Williams' ideas and arguments have been sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. Mark Jenkins provides a comprehensive account of Williams' many significant contributions to contemporary philosophy and his relation to the work of other philosophers, including prominent forerunners such as Hume and Nietzsche and contemporary thinkers such as, Nagel, McDowell, MacIntyre, and Taylor. Topics considered include personal identity, various critiques of moral theory, practical reasoning and moral motivation, truth and objectivity, and the relevance of ancient Greece to modern life. While Williams' work is fragmentary and resistant to familiar labels, Jenkins reveals the recurring themes and connections within his writings, and the philosophical underpinnings to his work.

What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? InPhilosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy \"something that counts as getting it right.\" Written with his distinctive combination of rigor, imagination, depth, and humanism, the book amply demonstrates why Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Spanning his career from his first publication to one of his last lectures, the book's previously unpublished or uncollected essays address metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as well as the scope and limits of philosophy itself. The essays are unified by Williams's constant concern that philosophy maintain contact with the human problems that animate it in the first place. As the book's editor, A. W. Moore, writes in his introduction, the title essay is \"a kind of manifesto for Williams's conception of his own life's work.\" It is where he most directly asks \"what philosophy can and cannot contribute to the project of making sense of things\"--answering that what philosophy can best help make sense of is \"being human.\" Philosophy as a Humanistic Disciplineis one of three posthumous books by Williams to be published by Princeton University Press.In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argumentwas published in the fall of 2005.The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophyis being published shortly after the present volume.

In November 1966, Barbados, a small but progressive nation with a stable democracy, joined the family of independent nations. Since independence, the country has realised significant development, becoming a leading nation under three of the Caribbean's most astute political leaders such as Errol Barrow, Tom Adams, and Owen Arthur. Yet, unlike Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Dominica, which acquired republican status in the 1970s, it took Barbados fifty-five years to reach that goal. Using local newspapers, constitutional commission reports, and parliamentary reports, this article seeks to examine the reasons for this delay. It argues that despite the nationalist impulse of the post-independence era, the exercise of British power at the moment of independence, strong colonial bonds, and a powerful local white population explain why the nation persisted with the British monarch for over five decades.

Mr Jonathan was educated at what was originally called Tywyn Intermediate School (now Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn) and then, after matriculating, at Aberystwyth University, where he completed his first MB before moving on to Guy's Hospital, from which he qualified in 1942. Three years later, he was able to achieve his ultimate ambition of returning to live and work in north Wales and was appointed consultant surgeon to the Clwyd and Deeside Group, initially based at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Rhyl and Colwyn Bay Hospital, which were subsequently amalgamated at Ysyby Glan Clwyd, where he remained in practice until he retired in 1983. On the untimely death of his wife, Lowry, in 1983, Mr Jonathan decided to leave Prestatyn, where his family had lived for the previous 20 years, and moved to his family's home in Criccieth, Gwynedd.

Barbados was one of Britain's oldest colonies and remained under British rule from 1627 until 1966 when it became independent. During the twentieth century, Barbados contemplated becoming a republic a few times and established two commissions that addressed the potential political change from a monarchy to a republic, that is, a democratic state that does not have a monarch or royalty at the head. This article seeks to chronicle Barbados's journey to a republican status. It highlights the final events and debates leading up to Barbados cutting colonial ties with Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State and the declaration of the Republic and installation on 30 November 2021 of the first president of Barbados, Dame Sandra Mason, as the Head of State. Some social and economic effects of Barbados's transition to a republic on Barbados and Caribbean countries in the Commonwealth are also examined.

Barbados was one of Britain's oldest colonies and remained under British rule from 1627 until 1966 when it became independent. During the twentieth century, Barbados contemplated becoming a republic a few times and established two commissions that addressed the potential political change from a monarchy to a republic, that is, a democratic state that does not have a monarch or royalty at the head. This article seeks to chronicle Barbados's journey to a republican status. It highlights the final events and debates leading up to Barbados cutting colonial ties with Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State and the declaration of the Republic and installation on 30 November 2021 of the first president of Barbados, Dame Sandra Mason, as the Head of State. Some social and economic effects of Barbados's transition to a republic on Barbados and Caribbean countries in the Commonwealth are also examined.

From his earliest work on personal identity to his last on the value of truthfulness, the ideas and arguments of Bernard Williams - in the metaphysics of personhood, in the history of philosophy, but especially in ethics and moral psychology - have proved sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. This book provides a comprehensive account of Williams's many significant contributions to contemporary philosophy. Topics include personal identity, various critiques of moral theory, practical reasoning and moral motivation, truth and objectivity, and the relevance of ancient Greece to modern life. It not only positions Williams among these important philosophical topics, but also with regard to the views of other philosophers, including prominent forerunners such as Hume and Nietzsche and contemporary thinkers such as, Nagel, McDowell, MacIntyre and Taylor. The fragmentary nature of Williams's work is addressed and recurring themes and connections within his work are brought to light.

According to the United Nations′ World Health Organization (WHO)′s definition of public health, it is \"the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.\" To fulfil this gigantic task we require political commitment to issues governing health, overcoming financial crises, judicious bifurcation of resources, synchronization between health and financial sectors, coordination between funding agencies, non-governmental organizations and government organizations in providing health services, imposition of strict legislative regulations on public and private stakeholders, and deployment of monitoring systems for gathering information from public and private sector and using it effectively in improving health services. [...]a vicious circle of disease associated morbidities and mortalities, resulting from and contributing to extreme poverty and malnutrition, is created.