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The Power of Persuasion. Rhetoric, Common Judgment and Machiavelli in Hobbes

Scienza & Politica, 2019
In this article, I explore the elusive function of rhetoric as a means to political pacification. With particular reference to Hobbes’s doctrine of the prophetic foundation of commonwealths, I contend that public persuasion, while being in most cases ...
Guido Frilli
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Hobbes:

Filosofia Unisinos
O contexto atual de conflitos nacionais e internacionais e de instabilidade política requer uma séria reflexão sobre a natureza humana, o papel do Estado e das organizações internacionais. Na Filosofia Política encontramos vários tratados sobre esses assuntos. O propósito desse artigo é demonstrar que T.
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The Appearance of Power in Hobbes’ Leviathan

Scienza & Politica, 2019
Power is widely acknowledged as central to Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy. There is ongoing debate over whether singular human beings or, instead, plural relationships, are the true source of power. After tracing the debate between the individualist
Meghan Robison
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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HOBBES E RELIGIÃO: ponderações sobre a relação entre ateísmo e política

Revista Interdisciplinar em Cultura e Sociedade, 2016
O presente estudo busca compreender o pensamento de Hobbes a partir de sua análise do problema religioso, embora seja o autor do Leviatã desqualificado como ateu, em alguns casos, em função das suas ideias político-religiosas.
Edmilson Menezes
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Hobbes Felsefesinde Özgürlük Üzerine Beş Önerme

Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023
Bu çalışmada Hobbes’un özgürlükle ilgili düşünceleri beş önerme üzerinden temellendirilmiştir. Ontolojik açıdan özgürlüğün imkansızlığı, özgürlüğün barışa özdeş sayılması, iradenin yokluğu ve engellerin yokluğu ilkeleri üzerinden özgürlük kavramının ...
Armağan Öztürk
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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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