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Berkshire Hathaway, the 300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves that assumption wrong. In a comprehensive portrait of the distinct corporate culture that unites and sustains Berkshire's fifty direct subsidiaries, Lawrence A. Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity. Riveting stories recount each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Be

Berkshire Hathaway, the 300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves that assumption wrong. In a comprehensive portrait of the distinct corporate culture that unites and sustains Berkshire's fifty direct subsidiaries, Lawrence A. Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity. Riveting stories recount each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Berk

Intractable moral disagreements / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Does the natural law provide a universally valid morality? / Jean Porter -- Moral disagreement and interreligious conversation : the penitential pace of understanding / David A. Clairmont -- Prophetic rhetoric and moral disagreement / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- After intractable moral disagreement : the Catholic roots of an ethic of political reconciliation / Daniel Philpott -- Moral disagreement and the limits of reason : refections on Macintyre and Ratzinger / Gerald McKenny -- Ultimate ends and incommensurable lives in Aristotle / Kevin L. Flannery -- The foundation of human rights and canon law / John J. Coughlin -- The fearful thoughts of mortals : Aquinas on confict, self-knowledge, and the virtues of practical reasoning / Thomas Hibbs -- From answers to questions : a response to the responses / Alasdair MacIntyre.