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Abstract In my research I analysed the feasibility requirements of normative political theories. Here my attempt is to answer to the question: which facts affect the feasibility of normative political prescriptions? I structured the thesis in five chapters. In the first chapter, I will provide a normative argument in order to hold that normative political prescriptions should respect a feasibility requirement. I will maintain that normative political prescriptions can imply legal rules, and legal rules are coercible. I will assume that it would be morally unacceptable to sanction people who do not act in accordance with a (set of) prescription(s) if it was impossible for those people to act in accordance with that (set of) prescription(s). Consequently, I will conclude that normative political prescriptions should adhere to a certain specification of the maxim 'ought implies can' ('OIC'). In particular, this means that normative political prescriptions does exist in a hypothetical set of 'all normative political prescriptions' only if people can satisfy it. I will argue that the term 'can' could assume two meanings: 'can as being possible' and 'can as being able to'. I will conclude this chapter by claiming that: prescriptions are feasible or not whether or not it is possible for human beings to act in accordance with a prescribed (of forbidden) course of action; prescriptions are more or less feasible depending on how much that human beings are able to act in accordance with a prescribed (or forbidden) course of action. In the second chapter, I will mainly review the state of art concerning the analysis of feasibility and I will criticize it in some regards. Here, I will introduce terms and commons standpoints found in the literature about the feasibility of normative theories. Then, I will pay attention to the list of facts that are usually considered to be feasibility constraints. Feasibility constraints will be distinguished between hard feasibility constraints (logic rules, physical and biological laws) and soft feasibility constraints (mainly: state of technology, institutions, economy, culture, human beings' features). I will show that the selection of soft constraints is a relevant problem for the analysis of feasibility. Hence, we should distinguish between simple facts and facts that are soft feasibility constraints. In order to draw this distinction, I will suggest that it is necessary to find out an adequate formal criterion for the selection of soft feasibility constraints. In the following two chapters, I will propose two different kinds of criteria for the selection of soft constraints, namely normative and practical criteria. These criteria propose different ways to distinguish facts affecting the feasibility of prescriptions from simple facts. In the third chapter, I will propose two normative criteria different kinds of criteria for the selection of soft constraints. The hypothesis behind normative criteria is that: 'all and only normatively (or morally) valuable facts should be considered soft constraints'. I will criticize normative criteria for the selection of soft constraints for two reasons. First, these criteria are sensitive to controversial implications that do not fit with my definition of feasibility and with the common sense definition of 'feasible as capable of being successfully used'. Second, I will argue that they lead to viciously circular arguments for the selection of soft feasibility constraints and that, for this reason, we should not accept them. Therefore, I will conclude that normative criteria are not adequate to select soft feasibility constraints In the fourth chapter, I will consider a practical criterion for the selection of soft constraints. This criterion selects soft constraints paying attention to the influence that certain facts have on the success of certain prescriptions. Although it needs some refinements, I will show that this criterion is consistent with the commonly accepted definition of feasibility and with my own definition of feasibility. Therefore, I will consider it adequate to select feasibility constraints. Thanks to this criterion, I will criticize one of the main tenets of the literature about feasibility. That is to say, I will conclude that institutional facts, cultural facts and economic facts should not be considered feasibility constraints since they are not independent from what people want. Hence, I will show that these social facts, which are usually and incontestably considered soft constraints, do not matter for the feasibility of normative political prescriptions. In the last chapter I will propose an answer to the research question. I will hold that facts constraining the feasibility of normative political prescriptions are: first (hard constraints), logic rules, physical laws, biological laws and any other fact undermining the feasibility of a prescription in any place of the world at any time; second (soft constraints), others' motivations, lacking material resources and human needs.

This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning. Its main focus is offering strategies and solutions that help reducing of the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and emphasizing the suitable management of available resources. By tackling the topic of sustainability from a historical perspective and also as a vision for the future, the book in hands provides new horizons for engineers, urban planners and environmentalists interested in the optimization of resources, space development, and the ecosystem as a whole to address the complex unresolved problems our cities are facing. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from IEREKs sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) held online in collaboration with the University of Florence, Italy (2021) and the first edition of the International Conference on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development (CESD) held online in collaboration with the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (2021).

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Der bis zu seiner Pensionierung 35 Jahre lang als evangelischer Pfarrer und Vorsitzender eines Synodalen Friedhofsausschusses Tätige will mit diesem seelsorgerisch orientierten Vorsorgebuch helfen, sich die Seniorenphase einschliesslich des Abschiednehmens mit Sterben, Trauerfeier, Grab und Bestattung bewusst zu machen und nach eigenem Willen zu gestalten. Auf ca. 100 Seiten kann der Leser alles in eine Daten- und Dokumentenliste eintragen, was ihm wichtig ist: von Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen über abgeschlossene Versicherungen, Verträge und Patientenverfügung bis hin zu Ärzten, Krankheiten und Medikamenten. Ferner können Vermächtnisse, Vollmachten und Adressen notiert werden. 2 Kapitel mit Checklisten können für weitere Eintragungen zusätzlich im Internet heruntergeladen werden. Ein hilfreiches Buch für Senioren, Angehörige und professionelle Kräfte, dem man die fundierte Erfahrung anmerkt. Empfehlenswerte Lebenshilfe, die vielen Tabus ihre lähmende Kraft nehmen kann. Ergänzend zum Ratgeber "Nach meinem Tod" (ID-G 3/13), der auch detaillierte Informationen für diese Lebensphase anbietet. (2)

Why are most famous historians men? How have women changed the writing of history over the last decades? What lives and stories have been hidden from history?Until recently history was predominantly the domain of men. That men were the authors of our past meant that in many cases only half of the story was told. In the second half of the twentieth century, however, the picture changed. Women, and indeed some men as well, started to address gender history. Women had been investigated historically before, but never with such intensity, nor such breadth. The impetus for this writing was both poli