Jonathan Swift's Critique of Consequentialism?

Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public can be regarded as a critique of consequentialism, perhaps the finest and most effective that has ever been written. Swift’s argument is not explicit but his use of consequentialist reasoning shows how it is possible to rationally justify a course of action which is grotesque and barbaric. This interpretation of Swift’s pamphlet is supported by considering it in relation to works by Bernard Mandeville and William Petty. Both authors employed consequentialist reasoning and Swift is likely to have been familiar with their work.

YSOVAR: Mid-infrared Variability in the Star-forming Region Lynds 1688

The emission from young stellar objects (YSOs) in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) is dominated by the inner rim of their circumstellar disks. We present IR data from the Young Stellar Object VARiability (YSOVAR) survey of ~800 objects in the direction of the Lynds 1688 (L1688) star-forming region over four visibility windows spanning 1.6 yr using the Spitzer Space Telescope in its warm mission phase. Among all light curves, 57 sources are cluster members identified based on their spectral energy distribution and X-ray emission. Almost all cluster members show significant variability. The amplitude of the variability is larger in more embedded YSOs. Ten out of 57 cluster members have periodic variations in the light curves with periods typically between three and seven days, but even for those sources, significant variability in addition to the periodic signal can be seen. No period is stable over 1.6 yr. Nonperiodic light curves often still show a preferred timescale of variability that is longer for more embedded sources. About half of all sources exhibit redder colors in a fainter state. This is compatible with time-variable absorption toward the YSO. The other half becomes bluer when fainter. These colors can only be explained with significant changes in the structure of the inner disk. No relation between mid-IR variability and stellar effective temperature or X-ray spectrum is found.

Suite de la Clef, ou Journal historique sur les matieres du tems

1747/07 (T62)-1747/12.

Suite de la Clef, ou Journal historique sur les matieres du tems

1747/01 (T61)-1747/06.

Tarif des droits dûs sur les vendanges et raisins qui entrent à Paris par terre. Septembre 1747

[Acte. 1747-09-00]

Arrêts du grand conseil (des 17 mars 1688 et 6 mars 1714,) portant règlement général entre les juges royaux des présidiaux et les lieutenants criminels de robe-courte des maréchaussées de France

[Acte. 1688-03-17. Paris]

Usages du Royaume de Siam : cartes, plans et vues en 1688 : [peinture]

Référence bibliographique : Hurel, 310 (1-3)