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Necessity and Chance in Marx's Doctoral Thesis [PDF]
According to Marx's interpretation, in the Democritean system, atoms move in a vacuum according to a blind necessity. Applying the word "accidental" to the Democritus system does not imply the unpredictable or causeless movement of atoms; rather, it ...
Ali Karbasizadeh Esfahani, Milad Omrani
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Towards a Responsible Liberalism
ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
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Disciplining the “Queen of the World”? Responsible Innovation as a Way of Life
ABSTRACT This paper offers a critical reflection on the concept of responsible innovation as defined during the last decades. We argue that the emphasis on innovation as a process risks neglecting the very goals of innovation, namely societal desirability and acceptability. Thus, we suggest reconsidering the role of imagination, the “Queen of the world”
Xavier Pavie +2 more
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The Kinetic Materialism of ‘Close Capitalism’: Exploiting and Shaping Health and Wellbeing
ABSTRACT This paper considers health geography's past engagements with capitalism and proposes a basis for future ones. Looking back, it notes a number of implicit, indirect and partial engagements in five core research pillars of the subdiscipline. Looking forward, it then makes a case for a more explicit, direct and full engagement with capitalism ...
Gavin J. Andrews, Cameron Duff
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Epicurus, Sententia Vaticana XXIII [PDF]
Sententia Vaticana 23, as usually emended, says that every friendship is choiceworthy for its own sake. I argue that this sentence should not be attributed to Epicurus.
Brown, Eric A.
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Plotinus and Epicurus on pleasure and happiness
In un noto passo del trattato antignostico (Enneadi II 9 [33],15. 4-10), Plotino critica l'edonismo epicureo, basato sull'idea del godimento corporeo. Si tratta dell'unica menzione esplicita del nome di Epicuro nell'opera di Plotino, nella quale tuttavia
Linguiti, A., Alessandro Linguiti
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Starting from ancient texts including examples of risk communication, this paper analyzes the famous speech (13 may, 1940) in which Prime Minister Winston Churchill promised to the United Kingdom «blood, toil, tears and sweat».
Luigi Spina
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Translating Epicurus and Bentham Kęstas Kirtiklis, Vilius Dranseika, Viktoras ...
Kęstas Kirtiklis +2 more
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RINKTINIAI FRAGMENTAI IŠ EPIKŪRO „SVARBIAUSIŲ MINČIŲ“ IR GNOMOLOGIUM VATICANUM
Epicurus’ Principal Doctrines and Vatican Sayings: Selections Paulius Garbačiauskas >
Paulius Garbačiauskas
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