By L. W. Sumner
Ethical philosophers agree that welfare concerns. yet they disagree approximately what it's, or how a lot it concerns. Wayne Sumner offers an unique thought of welfare, investigating its nature and discussing its value. He considers and rejects all impressive theories of welfare, either target and subjective, together with hedonism and theories based on wish or choice. His personal idea connects welfare heavily with happiness or existence pride. Reacting opposed to the worth pluralism that at the moment dominates ethical philosophy, he advances welfare because the purely simple moral worth. He concludes through discussing the consequences of this thesis for moral and political conception. Written in transparent, non-technical language, and together with a definitive survey of alternative paintings during this quarter, Sumner's ebook is key examining for ethical philosophers, political theorists, and welfare economists.
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116 The United States was not the only foreign country to influence the customs and leisure pursuits of the British. Britain had a long history of immigration from Europe; in the postwar years a new influx of immigrants from Europe arrived in Britain. In 1951, 160,000 people in England and Wales were born in Poland and INFLUENCE OF THE UNITED STATES ON BRITAIN, 1945–1963 31 33,000 in Italy. There were about 430,000 Jews in Britain, many fleeing continental Europe. In 1951, 627,000 people in England and Wales were born in Ireland and over the next ten year another 400,000 emigrated from the Irish Republic.
What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed? —what have they done in the mathematics? Who drinks out of American glasses? or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns? 16 THE UNITED STATES IN BRITISH IMAGINATION, 1945–1963 39 As the United States celebrated its centenary in 1876, it had become a great industrial power but conservatives remained concerned by the cultural backwardness of Americans.
On top of this, members of the audience caused disturbances at the showing of Blackboard Jungle in 1956, gaining sensational press coverage. 67 Bill Haley may have blazed the trail but Elvis Presley captured the imagination of the British public like no other rock ‘n’ roll artist. Presley, born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935, moved with his poverty-stricken family to Memphis, Tennessee, when he was 13 years old. At the crossroads of American music, Elvis absorbed the sounds of gospel music in the Church and country and western and rhythm and blues music on the radio and in the local clubs.