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Opposition to Soviet rule has deep roots and traditions in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Modern dissentism, however, is a response to Soviet rule different from what we call opposition in the West. In the Baltic republics it must be dated from 1968, the watershed year in the rise of human rights movement in the Soviet Union. In Estonia and Latvia, dissident activity was galvanized to life primarily by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia which provoked vocal criticism. In Lithuania, reaction to Czechoslovakia's occupation coincided with the growing concern that an increasingly severe implementation of prohibitive anti-religious legislation will choke off the existence of the Catholic church. Concern for religious rights served as the primary catalyst for the reborn dissent movement in Lithuania.

Analytical Philosophy in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction -- We Are All Children of God -- The Syncategorematic Treatment of Predicates -- The Paradox of Naming -- Substance and Kind: Reflections on the New Theory of Reference -- The Easy Examination Paradox -- Models for Actions -- Some Problems Concerning Meaning -- Abstraction, Analysis and Universals: The Navya-Ny?ya Theory -- Psychologism in Indian Logical Theory -- A Speech-Act Model for Understanding Navya-Ny?ya Epistemology -- Some Epistemologically Misleading Expressions: "Inference", and "Anum?na", "Perception" and "Pratyaksa" -- The Pr?bh?kara Mim?ms? Theory of Related Designation -- Plato's Indian Barbers -- Proper Names: Contemporary Philosophy and the Ny?ya -- Awareness and Meaning in Navya-Ny?ya.

I. Introduction -- II. The Problem of Psychologism -- III. Husserl's Philosophy of Arithmetic: A Re-Evaluation -- IV. Sartre and the Cartesian Ego -- V. The Ego and Consciousness in Rival Perspectives: Sartre and Husserl -- VI. World and Epoché in Husserl and Heidegger -- VII. Heidegger and Dewey.

THIS ESSAY CONSISTS OF A COLLECTION OF ARGUMENTS WHICH have been more fully developed elsewhere but are presented here in rather summary form in order to point towards a fundamental problem concerning the present status of political theory in the discipline of political science. This problem is not easily defined; but the difficulty recalls Alfred Cobban's complaint twenty-five years ago that political theory had become disen aged Lom 'political facts' and 'political practice' and transformed into an 'academic discipline'. My concern is with the 'philosophization' of political theory. By this I do not mean simply that political theory is not relevant to politics or has become detached from actual political issues – although this is probably quite true – but that it has tended to become a residue of arguments in academic philosophy. The bios theoretikos and the bios philosophikos have become indistinguishable.

An examination of the philosophical att's behind Latin Amer demographic policies; first published in Spanish in El Trimestre Economico (Mexico) Jul-Sep 1964 & to be included in J. A. Kahl, ASPECTOS HUMANOS DE LA INDUSTRIALIZACION EN AMERICA LATINA (Human Aspects of Industrialization of Latin America, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economical 1965). Traditional att's which hinder the adoption of modern demographic policies include: a nat'list belief that more pop means more power; Catholic opposition to birth control; a hope that ED automatically reduces the birth rate; a naive exaltation of the poor who love children & cannot have too many of them; excessive neo-Malthusianism that can be easily refuted. Against these att's it is argued that: (1) aggregate statistics are misleading;. (2) production of goods increases much faster than job opportunities; (3) excess supply of workers lowers wage rates; (4) the people hardest hit by large fam's are the poor; (5) poor people, esp in Ur areas, usually prefer smaller fam's; & (6) reliance on 'automatic' reduction in fertility is risky & entails high costs. It is concluded that the chief obstacle to a general introduction of birth control lies not in the att's of the poor but in the outdated traditional att's of the elites. I. Langnas.