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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Hobbesian Conception of Human Nature: Moral Implications for Nigeria Society [PDF]
, 2019 This work is on Hobbesian Conception of Human Nature: Moral Implications for Nigeria Society. It will be absurd indeed to discuss about Ethics and Society without talking about the concept of human nature.
Big-Alabo, Sotonye
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Power and Potentia in Hobbes. The Mechanistic Perspective between Natural and Political Philosophy
Scienza & Politica, 2019 Through the elaboration of his political philosophy, Hobbes wishes to present himself as a representative of the new mechanistic and deterministic science of the seventeenth century, by applying Galilei’s method in politics and by refusing the ...
Carlo Altini
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"Acquired wit" and Hobbesian education [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis analyzes and evaluates the scheme for civil education discussed in Thomas Hobbes’ political works. Hobbes argues in The Elements of Law, De Cive, and Leviathan that the preservation of political order requires that all subjects learn the ...
Solecki, Daniel Joseph
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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La interpretación de Lloyd del principio de obligación política de Thomas Hobbes
Estudios de Filosofía, 2016 El presente estudio tiene por objetivo presentar la índole de la interpretación de Sharon Ann Lloyd de la teoría política de Thomas Hobbes y de exponer los argumentos que ella ofrece para soportar la tesis de que la interpretación tradicional (o estándar)
Oswaldo Plata Pineda
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Private Revenge and its Relation to Punishment [PDF]
, 2009 In contrast to the vast literature on retributive theories of punishment, discussions of private revenge are rare in moral philosophy. This paper reviews some examples, from both classical and recent writers.
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing enthusiasm to reconsider the normative foundations of the stakeholder theory is spreading in related literature. Current research mainly focuses on religious, spiritual, and philosophical underpinnings to reexamine these foundations.
Roberta Sferrazzo +2 more
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Three readings of the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes
, 1991 Hobbes's Leviathan has been lauded as "the greatest, perhaps the sole, masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language." I Such accolades are supported, at least in the twentieth century, by the prodigious volume of literature which ...
Worthington, Glenn
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British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents two complementary studies on the impact of neurodivergent conditions such as autism, AD(H)D, dyslexia/dyscalculia and giftedness on well‐being. In Study 1, survey data from 2157 participants in a true probabilistic sample of Dutch households show that respondents with autism and ADHD report significantly lower life ...
Jan van Rijswijk, Petru Lucian Curșeu
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