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Africa Spectrum, 2010 Review of the monograph: Matthew Lange (2009), Lineages of Despotism and Development: British Colonialism and State Power, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-266-47068-9, 208 pp.
Georg Schäfer
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Money and federal autocracy: 1913 and the quiet inversion of the American constitutional order
Economic Affairs, EarlyView.Abstract The American Revolution affirmed that sovereignty inheres by nature in each Citizen, and collectively in the People. The Constitution completed a structure in which authority flowed from Citizens to their several State republics, and from the States to a Union holding only delegated powers. 1913 inverted that order.
James Turk
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Trapped in the Cave: Toward a Platonic Theory of Ideology
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is about showing that Plato has a theory of ideology in the broadly Marxist sense of distorted self‐consciousness of social life. Focusing on the Allegory of the Cave and related passages in the Republic, the paper argues that in the Cave, Plato illustrates the social mediation of human psychology, which contributes to the soul's ...
John D. Proios
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Finality and Continuity: What Drives Bereaved Parents to Choose Posthumous Sperm Retrieval
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To explore bereaved parents' experience of deciding to pursue posthumous sperm retrieval (PHSR) and the meaning they associate with this choice. Background The death of a child profoundly disrupts the natural order of life, leaving parents with loss of meaning and identity.
Yael Doft +3 more
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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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Aging rhesus monkeys stick to friends and family. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Fischer J.
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Artificial Intelligence and Nursing: Freedom From the Mundane or Subservience to a New Nobility
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To explore the notion of post‐humanism and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society, nursing and healthcare. Design Discursive paper. Methods Critical reflection on concepts relating to post‐humanism and the impact of AI, sourced from contemporary and established literature. Data Sources Information was drawn from a wide range
David A. Richards
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EludamosIain Banks’ Complicity (1993) features a fictional ‘world-builder’ game called Despot that actively watches and emulates the player. This fictional game emerges as part of the Scottish Fantastic, a literary tradition that explores split selves and divided identities.
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Russia: Asia or Europe? Civilizational model in search of finding meaning
RUDN Journal of World History, 2012 The article is devoted to finding self-identity of the Russian state. The author reflects on the relationship between the concepts despotism and democracy in historical perspective today.
S Anatol'evich Voronin
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