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"Prof. Burton Porter surveys philosophy and ethics in a clear, concise way, examines our present attitudes and values, and offers signposts for a successful life. With full, 21st century awareness, the author points to dimensions of human beings that can be realized to create a fulfilling existence"--

Gert Scobel unternimmt mit seinem neuen Buch 'Der fliegende Teppich' eine Diagnose unserer modernen Welt, ihrer Probleme und Charakteristiken. Anhand des Bilds eines fliegenden Teppichs veranschaulicht er unsere Lage und fasst sie in klare Worte: vom Begründungsproblem in den Wissenschaften über die Frage nach dem, was wirklich ist, vom Zustand unserer Gesellschaft bis hin zur Kraft der Imagination. Eine überraschende, augenöffnende Analyse unserer Zeit und der Conditio des Menschen von einem der renommiertesten Wissenschaftsjournalisten. (Verlagstext)

20: PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS AND RELIGIOUS NORMSNotes; RELIGION AND CHARITY; 21: CATHOLIC IDENTITY AND STRONG DISSENT-HOW COMPATIBLE?; Notes; 22: BANKING: The ethical career choice; Notes; 23: ON REBUILDING NOAH'S ARK AND DRINKIN GOLD BURGUNDY; Note; 24: SHOULD CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS BE ALLOWED TO FOSTER CHILDREN?; Notes; SEX, SEX-EQUALITY, AND SEXUALITY; 25: CAN YOU BE GAY BY CHOICE?; The question of identity; Getting back to choice; Conclusion; Notes; 26: PROSTITUTION AND DISABILITY; The case for an exception; Defining disability; Conclusion; Notes; 27: ARTIFICIAL WOMBS AND A VISIT TO BIRLAND.

Life, law, and legal history -- Rethinking law, religion, and the state -- Becoming qazi in British Bombay: imperial expansion, legal administration, and everyday negotiation -- Creating a qazi class: navigating expectations between company and community -- From petitions to elections: Islamic legal practitioners and the exigencies of colonial rule -- Crown rule in the context of noninterference -- Personal law in the public sphere: fatwas, print publics, and the making of everyday Islamic legal discourse -- From files to fatwas: procedural uniformity and substantive flexibility in alternative legal spaces -- Accounting for qazis: negotiating life and law in small-town North India -- Analyzing shariʻa, state, and society -- Of judges and jurists: questioning the courts in Islamic legal discourse -- Whose law is it, anyway? Navigating legal paths in late colonial society -- The limits of legal possibilities.

This book identifies where modern Jeremiahs place the sources of national decline and their purposed solutions and its analysis also reveals the central problem faced by this form of writing: the need to balance condemnation of certain practices within the democratic polity with calls for repentance. For these writers and political actors, the tensions created by these demands prove impossible to resolve, as the modern jeremiad further divides an already divided nation

Abstract
The article concentrates on defining of the civilization creature of the state Israel on the Middle East scene and on conditionings belongings of Israel both to the western system as and the eastern oriental world. The author gets to the bottom of the dynamics of the evolution of the demographic matter states as and into his scene of party-political which determines the external strategy and the policy. Finds, with foundations of State created by David Ben Gurion, evidenced the double character of Israel: on one hand on the lay structure created by the Ashkenazic party Mapai and later Labor Party, and on the other hand on the strong presence of the religion and the synagogue to which one gave back civil cases. The promotion of Sephardim from the half of years 70, the height of the meaning of rightist Likud and small orthodox formations, caused that Israel more and more modern and technologically modernized, so western, had simultaneously stood up an oriental state, in compliance with a membership the regional and unstable authority which demanded religious coalition members that to rank. The work composition focus on facts concerning both the internal situation as and subregional, mostly in the collation context with Iran and his regional allies.
The author is convinced, with the civilization visage of regional actors, he most put on weight manifests itself within a period of crises and wars. Because many places devoted to the Lebanese war with Hezbollah in 2006 as and later with Hamas organization (so called three-week) war. In them came to light opportunism political elites of Israel and minimalized strategic thinking. The work avoids prognoses even on nearest future. The author denies prognosing as the indispensable condition of the scientific correctness of the text.