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030932
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Calcutta, K.P.Begchi & company, 1979.
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v, 199p.hbk
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| 019115 | 954/SEN 019115 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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163255
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In his Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides criticizes certain unnamed Muslim theologians, especially with regard to their views on possibility. Maimonides identifies these views as stemming from the theologians’ espousal of the notion of “intellectual admissibility.” By this, they seem to mean that whatever is conceivable is possible in actuality. Maimonides strongly rejects this notion, as it appears to undermine any rational order in the world. This article explores this notion, and attempts to define what disturbed Maimonides so powerfully about its implications. At the same time, it becomes clear that Maimonides shares certain views of the theologians, even if for quite different reasons.
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086252
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2009.
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The growing literature on human trafficking lacks survey data on citizens' attitudes towards it in states of origin. This article discusses the results of a nationwide public opinion poll conducted in June 2007 in Russia and explores the views of two focus groups. It examines Russians' thoughts about the causes and scale of human trafficking and beliefs about what should be done to tackle it, by whom and how. Both sets of data reveal pessimism about state capacity to address human trafficking effectively.
* Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the annual conference of BASEES, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 29-31 March 2008, to the School of Public Policy, University College, London, 15 November 2007 and to the Hat Club, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, 17 October 2007. I am most grateful to the British Academy and the Russian Academy of Sciences for research trips to Moscow and St Petersburg in 2004 and 2007 and again to the British Academy for a small research grant which enabled me to visit a third time in June 2007 and to fund a nationwide public opinion poll and two focus groups held in Moscow and Vladimir. Thanks are due to Alexei Grazhdankin, Alexey Levinson and Svetlana Koroleva of the Levada Centre. Gratitude is also owed to anonymous reviewers for their feedback.
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