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World War I in Photos

German Vice Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee's cruiser squadron, leaving Valparaiso, Chile, on November 3, 1914, following the Battle of Coronel. [In Focus]

German Vice Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee’s cruiser squadron, leaving Valparaiso, Chile, on November 3, 1914, following the Battle of Coronel (In Focus).

— World War I in Photos: A 10-Part Series By Alan Taylor.

Jessop

Ideologically, liberalism claims that economic, political, and social relations are best organized through formally free¹ choices of formally free and rational actors who seek to advance their own material or ideal interests in an institutional framework that, by accident or design, maximizes the scope for formally free choice (Jessop, 2002: 453).

¹ I use the concept of “formal freedom” here to draw an implicit contrast with the lack of full substantive freedom due to the multiple constraints that limit free choice. The institutionalization of formal freedom is nonetheless a significant political accomplishment and a major element in liberal citizenship, as well as a precondition for market economies.

— Jessop, B. (2002). Liberalism, neoliberalism, and urban governance: a State–theoretical perspective. Antipode 34(3), 452-472.

Smith

…it is much easier to rationalize the profit-driven rape of earth and body alike if that nature is objectified. (Smith, 2006: xii).

— Smith, N. (2006). Foreword. In: Heynen, N. C., Kaika, M. & Swyngedouw, E. In the nature of cities: urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism, xi-xv. London: Routledge.

González

Elegí el sur, pero me quedó el rencomio de saber cómo era el norte. En toda elección seguimos con el cuerpo un camino y con el espíritu otro. (González, 1996: 182).

— González, J. S. (1996). Cuando era muchacho. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria.

MacMillan

La Gran Guerra estalló cuando el heredero al trono austro-húngaro, el archiduque Francisco Fernando y su esposa Sofía fueron asesinados en Sarajevo por nacionalistas serbios. Austria pidió entonces ayuda a su aliada Alemania para cargar contra Serbia. Rusia salió en defensa de Serbia con el respaldo de Francia. Austria declaró la guerra a Serbia, y Alemania a Rusia y Francia, que pidió a su vez auxilio a Gran Bretaña. Cuando Alemania invadió la neutral Bélgica, Gran Bretaña irrumpió a su vez en un conflicto que se extendió por Europa como una catástrofe inusitada. Y todo se escapó de control en sólo 37 días.

— Margaret MacMillan, ‘1914 nos enseñó que no hay que esperar a la guerra para construir la paz‘.

Rawls

A practice will strike the parties as fair if none feels that, by participating in it, they or any of the others are taken advantage of, or forced to give in to claims which they do not regard as legitimate (Rawls, 1958: 178).

— Rawls, J. (1958). Justice as fairness. The Philosophical Review 67(2), 164-194.

Edmundson

Moral powers are normally exercised for reasons. One might concoct a recherche´ example in which a moral power is exercised just for the sake of exercise, but normally moral powers are exercised in order to further some end. We promise things, for example, to please or to accommodate others, or perhaps to motivate ourselves to do what we have other reasons to do. But the reasons for action that are the upshot of the exercise of a moral power persist even when it is discovered that the reasons for which the power was exercised are not as had been supposed (Edmundson, 2010: 182).

— Edmundson, W. A. (2010). Political authority, moral powers and the intrinsic value of obedience. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 30(1), 179–191.

Nelson

— Jimmy Nelson: Before they pass away.

Stinchcombe

Our prejudices are not good guides to intellectual quality. The use of classics as identifying badges tends to produce sects rather than open intellectual communities. The badges tend to become boundaries rather than guides (Stinchcombe, 1982: 7).

— Stinchcombe, A. (1982). Should sociologists forget their mothers and fathers. The American Sociologist 17, 2-11.