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Solving the Socratic Problem—A Contribution from Medicine [PDF]
, 2018 This essay provides a medical theory that could clarify enigmas surrounding the historical Socrates. It offers textual evidence that Socrates had temporal lobe epilepsy and that its two types of seizure manifested as recurrent voices and peculiar ...
Muramoto, Osamu
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African Metaphysics and Religious Ethics [PDF]
, 2018 Scholars of African moral thought reject the possibility of an African religious ethics by invoking at least three major reasons. The first objection to ‘ethical supernaturalism’ argues that it is part of those aspects of African ...
Molefe, Motsamai
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Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
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Las Islas, technological imaginary and futuristic aesthetics. An anachronistic assembly
Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2015 We intend to read in Las Islas of Carlos Gamerro the experience of war associated with the character of Felipe Felix from the notion of anachronism of Didi Huberman (2011: 39).
Julieta Soledad Heredia
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Did Lobachevsky Have A Model Of His "imaginary Geometry"? [PDF]
, 2010 The invention of non-Euclidean geometries is often seen through the optics of Hilbertian formal axiomatic method developed later in the 19th century. However such an anachronistic approach fails to provide a sound reading of Lobachevsky's geometrical ...
Rodin, Andrei
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann +2 more
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Cinema as a Foucauldian dispositif: An Anachronistic and Materialistic Approach
Palabra Clave, 2016 In general terms it is possible to describe this research as a materialistic approach to cinema. Our grasp of film is focused on the perspective of films as a product of work, as a product of organized, distributed and selected manners of labor.
Juan David Cárdenas
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Are Empires Striking Back? A Political and Cultural Comparison of the European Union and Russia
Economics and Culture, 2016 The article is a position paper focusing on the current standoff between two regional powers, the European Union and Russia. Following a series of crises, in particular the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, the relationship between ...
Dumetz Jérôme
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Interfaces Numériques, 2017 Concernant la notion de plaisir, cet article s’attache à penser le processus de création de l’artiste contemporain Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. Il s’agit de montrer que l’expérience esthétique du plaisir, vécue par le spectateur, dans le cadre de ces ...
Florence Jou
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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge +2 more
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