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The article focuses primarily on the writer’s views and attitudes about judgment and punishment. The philosopher Tolstoy, profoundly influenced by Rousseau since his youth, rejects industrial capitalism and its achievements, criticizes the profligate ...
Jan Kosek
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Abolicjonizm – obrona wartości humanistycznych
Rozważania przedstawione w artykule dotyczą istoty, przesłanek i założeń ruchu abolicjonistycznego będącego formą obrony wartości humanitarnych. Tekst rozpoczyna wyjaśnienie przez autorkę szerokiej definicji terminu „abolicjonizm”, pod którym kryją się ...
Wantuła Halina
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ORLEANS SLAVE REVOLT OF 1811: CAUSES, COURSE, CONSEQUENCES
This work is the first attempt in Russian historiography to analyze the largest armed uprising of black slaves in the South of the United States – the uprising on the German coast of 1811.
Shumakov A.A.
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The article takes stock of thirty years of study of various aspects of prostitution in France. It focuses mainly on the logic of production and reception of a sociological analysis elaborated in a context of lively controversies on the status to be ...
Lilian Mathieu
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The paper uses the rhetorical lenses to examine a neo-slave narrative The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. The exploration of emotive, ethical, and political dimensions of the text allows the author to demonstrate its emotional and moral effects ...
Brygida Gasztold
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Conquêtes et altérités : de la Méditerranée antique à la modernité atlantique
This article focuses on the relations of cultural dominance, with the weight of the denial of identity throughout the human history. It traces how the hegemony functions, initially for the benefit of Greek colonists, then for the Roman empire in the ...
Lobna Mestaoui
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In Whose Interest? Ante-Bellum Abolitionism, the Bible, and Contemporary Christian Ethics
Christians look to Scripture to inform their ethical decision-making, believing that God speaks through it. However, disagreement as to what the Bible requires us to do can often lead to acrimonious splits within the church.
Carson Marion L. S.
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This article studies the history of compensated sex between men in Latin America in the 20th century. The study has two goals. On one hand, exploring how the changes affecting male compensated sex are inextricably intertwined with the transformation of ...
Santiago Joaquín Insausti
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Abolitionism in transhumanism – A future without suffering
The term “transhuman” first appeared in Dante Alighieri's 1308 term “transumanare,” meaning to transcend the human condition. Since its inception, transhumanism has focused on surpassing human biological constraints.
Damon Mackett
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US Political Economy and the Clash over Emancipation on the Eve of the Civil War
The essay reconstructs the conflict over emancipation that unfolded in the United States in the decades before the Civil War, focusing on the discourse of Northern political economy and particularly on the writings of Henry Charles Carey (1793-1879). The
Matteo Rossi
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