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The monster and the police: Dexter to Hobbes [PDF]

, 2014
On 25 February 2002, Rafael Perez, a former officer of the LAPD’s Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums unit (CRASH), appeared in court accused of various crimes: covering up a bank robbery, shooting and framing an innocent citizen, stealing and ...
Neocleous, MA
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The Spectre of Stoicism – the Role of Justus Lipsius in the Hobbes-Bramhall Debate [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of this paper is to highlight two interrelated aspects of the Hobbes-Bramhall debate (focusing mainly on Bramhall’s merits): (1) the numerous issues raised in the dispute can be reduced to one fundamental question (to that between hypothetical ...
Smrcz, Ádám
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THOMAS HOBBES VE DEMOKRASİ

Felsefe Dünyası, 2003
Hobbes is generally regarded as the precursor of modern liberalism because he favours individualism and endorses mental and moral autonomy. Howevers, Hobbes is thought to favour Royalist absolutism and is against democracy.
Naci İspir
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Officium auditoris: rudiments of a history of hearing

Redescriptions, 2015
Rhetorical discourse involves two parties, or two roles, the speaker and the hearer, stereotypically characterized as active and passive respectively. The history and theory of rhetoric concern themselves almost exclusively with the active side of the ...
Pantelis Bassakos
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On answering accusations in controversies [PDF]

, 2009
Accusations are a very frequent type of speech act both in everyday life and in formal controversies, and answering accusations is a sophisticated type of linguistic practice well worth analysing from a pragmatic point of view.
Fritz, Gerd
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Death Stranding, Hobbes and the Problem of Social Order: Where (and How) Should we Haul the Sover- eign?

Социология власти
In this article I describe the implicit conceptualization of social order which exists in Death Stranding - localized in both the setting and the mechanics of the game - and compare it with the conceptualization of Thomas Hobbes's "Leviathan". First, the
Stepan V. Kozlov
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Escaping Hobbes: liberty and security for our democratic (not anti-terrorist) age [PDF]

, 2010
The terms 'liberty' and 'security' are analysed against a background of contemporary concerns about terrorism and the decline of freedom. The influence of Hobbes’s approach to liberty has been pervasive, and the effect of this has been to promote an ...
Gearty, Conor
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Apriorist self-interest: How it embraces altruism and is not vacuous [PDF]

, 1997
This essay is part of an attempt to reconcile two extreme views in economics: the (neglected) subjective, apriorist approach and the (standard) objective, scientific (i.e., falsifiable) approach.
Lester, J. C.
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HOBBES’ POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2013
This is basically an attempt at an original conceptual reconstruction of Hobbes’ philosophy as set in Lehiathan, namely one in the view of which Hobbes was neither an atheist nor an absolutist, as the standard interpretation holds, but rather what we ...
MHAI NOVAC
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Thomas Hobbes and a chastened 'global' constitution the contested boundaries of the law [PDF]

, 2015
Hobbes’ account of politics, law and obligation has long been read, especially by realists in international affairs, as leaving no space for international law or institutions.
Lang Jr., Anthony F.
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