Nicolai Hartmann was one of the most original twentieth century German philosophers. Yet, he did not compromise clarity and rigor for proficiency and originality. Brought up as a neo-Kantian, he became one of the most important critics of German idealism and one of the most resolute proponents of ontological realism. He developed what he called the "New Ontology," which lies at the core of a systematic opus branching out in all of the main areas of philosophy. He proposed innovative and promising solutions to old and new problems in the various areas of philosophy. His work had a major influence.
It's hard to pigeonhole Thom Hartmann. He has a unique synthesis of qualities not often found in one person: a scholar's love of history, a scientist's zeal for facts, a visionary's seeking after truth, an explorer's appetite for adventure and novelty. In addition to being the nation's number one progressive radio host, he's been an ad man, a psychotherapist, a private detective, and a homeopath. His writings encompass politics, history, ecology, psychology, and spirituality, among other subjects. Even Hartmann's millions of loyal listeners and readers will be amazed at the breadth of his thought as evidenced by The Thom Hartmann Reader. Editor Tai Moses has pulled together Hartmann's writings from a dozen books and other sources to present a comprehensive picture of where Hartmann's wide-ranging intellect has led him over the past thirty years. Hartmann is perhaps best known as a political thinker, and essays throughout this book express, in his characteristic impassioned and lucid style, his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his virulent opposition to the corporatization of America. But you'll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures hypothesis, which identifies the root cause of so many of our social and environmental ills and points the way to a solution. You'll hear from Hartmann on how to keep our schools from treating children like assembly line products, why attention deficit disorder is not an affliction, and what cloudy Germany can teach us about solar energy. You'll meet the remarkable Gottfried Müller, Hartmann's mentor and the founder of the humanitarian organization Salem International. You'll join Hartmann on fact-finding trips to Uganda, Russia, and four-thousand-year-old ruins in Peru. As fascinating as these and other topics in The Hartmann Reader are, Hartmann's deepest aspiration has always been that his audience do more than just listen or read, that they become active, awakened agents of change. These essays are meant to inspire and motivate, to spur you to take some kind of action. As Hartmann says at the end of every radio program, "Get out there, get active! Tag, you're it!"
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State responsibility — Kinds of — Interference with property — Land — Prohibition of entry, use, enjoyment or alienation by owner — Whether a "taking" of property.
Dr. Richard Hartmann sends a letter (in 1942) to General Plutarco Elías Calles explaining to him that the present conflagration with Germany is not due to the ambition of taking over the world but rather is the response of the German people to the injustices of the Treaty of Versailles. He attaches a migration booklet and asks General Calles to fill it out with his information so he can give it as a reference, since it is a requirement that they ask him in Foreigner Registration Center. General Calles answers him that he is returning the booklet properly signed. / Carta que envía el doctor Richard Hartmann al general PEC explicándole que la actual conflagración con Alemania se debe no a la pretensión de adueñarse del mundo sino que es la respuesta del pueblo alemán a las injusticias del Tratado de Versalles; también le adjunta una libreta de migración solicitándole que la llene con sus datos para darlo como referencia, pues es requisito que le piden en el registro de extranjeros; contestándole el general PEC que le devuelve la libreta debidamente firmada.
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232Jurisdiction — In general — Territorial — Jurisdiction over foreigners — In respect of crimes committed in forum State — Whether conviction in State of origin precludes proceedings in State where offences committed — Principle of ne bis in idem — Applicability — Whether recognized as a general rule of international law — European Convention on Extradition, 1957 — The law of Italy
The imposing scope and penetrating insights of German philosopher Nicolai Hartmann's work have received renewed interest in recent years. The Neo-Kantian turned ontological realist established a philosophical approach unique among his peers, and it provides a wealth of resources for considering contemporary philosophical problems. The chapters included in this volume examine his ethics, ontology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of nature. They explore his ontology of values, autonomy and human enhancement, and law; his theory of levels of reality, space-time and geometry, the categories of temporality, causality, and "life," the question of realism, and social ontology. Others take inspiration from his aesthetic theory, ideas about education, and his embrace of the Socratic pathos of wonder. They bring his philosophy into conversation with that of his contemporaries, including Roman Ingarden and Konrad Lorenz's appropriation of Hartmann, as well as with the history of philosophy, including Plato's theory of recollection, pre-Socratic philosophy, and that of his Russian teacher Nikolai Lossky. Those familiar with Hartmann's wide-ranging systematic philosophy will benefit from these new engagements with his work, and those new to it will find them relevant to a number of current philosophical debates