Moral politics against political moralism — political satire in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Christmas tale Meister Floh. Article 2 [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2011 This paper shows that E. T. A. Hoffmann assessed the post-Napoleon politics of Prussia in the Christmas tale “Meister Floh” from a Kantian perspective.
Kalinnikov L. A.
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Variation in grouping patterns, mating systems and social structure: what socio-ecological models attempt to explain [PDF]
, 2013 Socio-ecological models aim to predict the variation in social systems based on a limited number of ecological parameters. Since the 1960s, the original model has taken two paths: one relating to grouping patterns and mating systems and one relating to ...
Andreas Koenig +19 more
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The politics of historical economics: Wilhelm Roscher on democracy, socialism and Caesarism [PDF]
, 2016 Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Roscher (1817-94) is generally remembered as a significant nineteenth-century German political economist and a contributor to the “German Historical School of Economics.” His work is usually placed in the context of a larger ...
McDaniel, Iain
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Kant’s Four Political Conditions
Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, 2022 In Kant’s “Doctrine of Right” there is a philosophical and interpretive puzzle surrounding the translation of a key concept: Gewalt. Should we translate it as “force,” “power,” or “violence”?
Helga Varden
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The Issue of Water and the Formation of Socio-Political Balance in the Development of Iranian Society (Case Study: Water Management System in Zayandeh-Rud Basin) [PDF]
علوم و مهندسی آب و فاضلاب, 2023 Water scarcity is one of the most important distinguishing features that development theorists have paid attention to in explaining the characteristics of eastern societies in the social transition.
Mehrdad Tohidi +4 more
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Iranians Culture and Personality in Foreign Itinerary [PDF]
Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2008 Itineraries have been an important source of knowing cultural and social characteristics of societies, but this has been involved with some limitations in understanding, knowledge and interpretation. In fact, travel diaries are a kind of narrative.
Hossein Mirzaei, Jabbar Rahmani
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Montesquieu.it, 2022 The work Pensieri Riflessioni Massime, edited by Domenico Felice, represents, due to the solidity of its themes, a fundamental milestone in Montesquieu’s philosophical production and, more in general, in modern philosophy.
Gaetano Antonio Gualtieri
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Social Hierarchies and the Formation of Customary Property Law in Pre-Industrial China and England [PDF]
, 2014 Comparative lawyers and economists have often assumed that traditional Chinese laws and customs reinforced the economic and political dominance of elites and, therefore, were unusually “despotic” towards the poor. Such assumptions are highly questionable:
Zhang, Taisu
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Goldsmith's cosmopolitanism [PDF]
, 2006 [First Paragraph] Although imaginary travelers and voyages date back at least as far as the work of Lucian, the figure of the fictional oriental traveler seems to belong primarily to the eighteenth century.
Watt, J
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Validation of the Ttheory of "Oriental Ddespotism" in Uunderstanding Ssocial Ddevelopments in Iran [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2019 Many of the research works on the Iranian history and culture, while embracing the theory of Oriental Despotism, regard despotism as a feature of Iranian society, and they believe that during the history of Iran, the shadow of tyranny has always been ...
Muzaffar Namdar, Javad Nazarimoghaddam
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