His dissertation uses the history of political thought to explain contemporary skepticism about judgments of character in democratic politics, and to develop a more sympathetic account of them.
Homo Deus makes good on this thought to explain how our unparalleled ability to control the world around us is turning us into something new.
Though published in 1936, and of little direct influence on the New Deal, Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was long thought to explain why FDR's willingness to use government funds to stimulate a faltering economy had worked – and why the rapid withdrawal of those funds in 1937 had been such a disaster.
It might be an intriguing (and arduous) study in culture and human thought to explain the analogies among those senses, but it is a study that holds out no special promise for understanding the law of a community.
I am writing after a great deal of thought to explain that I have been approached about, and accepted, the post of President and Chief Executive of the International Rescue Committee IRCC), a global humanitarian aid organisation based in New York that saves lives and protects people around the world.
"It's one of those products that you need and you expect it to work, but it's not something that you give a whole lot of thought to," explains Jackie Gyoerkoe, director of marketing for stapling at Swingline, an Acco brand.
So, for such cases, there is simply no appealing to a difference in thought content to explain misidentification; the thought content is the same precisely because the object misidentified is the same and the object exhausts the thought content.
The book uses the idea of "thought-transference" to explain the phenomena of ghost-seeing and compares internal dreams to "the externalized 'phantasms of the living' which impress waking percipients".
Historians don't rely on thought experiments to explain their ideas, but they do like little stories.
But it offers a somewhat unorthodox premise: that the purpose of Confucian thought is to explain how to live a happy life in the modern world.
