Judging the Judges J. Spragens What began with a demand

What began with a demand for beef to feed the hungry cities of the eastern United States fostered the demand for wool to clothe them and graduated into a demand for oil to warm them in winter and fuel the mechanized age of the twentieth century

Faced with an exciting crush

Narveson concludes with a rationally forceful proof of the Principle of Utility

as well as showing how to draw out accurately the geometry of the paperfold nets

a remarkable integration of social contexts and poetic details

Judging the Judges J. Spragens What began with a demandThe book of Judges is full of characters of ambivalent moral integrity and acts of dubious propriety, such as Jaels murder of Sisera and the sacrifice of Jephthahs daughter. And yet the terse narrative and the reticent narrator frequently leave the ethical character of these actions in doubt. In order to avoid reading contemporary worldviews and ethics into this ancient text, Mary L. Conway applies a blend of narrative and functional linguistic