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Left, Right and Centre: National Political Authority and Its Symbolisation
ABSTRACT This lecture explores ideas through which we both do and analyse national politics in the modern world, as both concepts and symbols, examining three conceptual pairs: Left/Right, Centre/Periphery and Liberal/Authoritarian. I argue that Left/Right is a symbolic structure that is necessary for democratic politics, but not reflective of deep ...
Jonathan Hearn
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Para una crítica de toda teología política
El vertiginoso regreso de lo teológico a lo político es uno de los acontecimientos sintomáticos de la posmodernidad en que vivimos. Sin embargo, es necesario repensar lo político sin lo teológico y articular una crítica radical de lo teológico-político ...
Yves Charles Zarka
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A Formal Theory of Robert Nozick's Framework for Utopia
ABSTRACT This paper offers the very first formal model of Robert Nozick's model of possible worlds and his vision of a utopian society, as outlined in Part III of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick envisioned utopia as a meta‐utopia—a collection of self‐organized, voluntary sub‐communities—arguing that such an institutional framework is equivalent to ...
Susumu Cato, Hun Chung
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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O intento do presente artigo é analisar o pensamento de Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), tendo como textos-base de análise, “Do cidadão” e “Leviatã”, a fim de sistematizar a tese de que, em última análise, a filosofia de Hobbes é a ciência da paz.
Paulo César Nodari
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Abstract Ancient rhetoric instructs the advocate to evoke in themselves the emotions they wish to elicit in the judge in order to successfully act as the Fürsprecher (advocates) of their clients. Taken to its extreme, this formula of “affection through auto‐affection” renders the figure of the Fürsprecher a double‐sided representative who compensates ...
Shira Miron
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Representação política em Althusius e Hobbes [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2012Pretende-se investigar o surgimento da ideia de representação política nos primórdios da ...
Muniz, Jordan Michel
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A clash of swords: civil peace and the counteracting role of defence in Thomas Hobbes's theory of sovereignty. [PDF]
This thesis will inquire into the practicable strategies that Thomas Hobbes described in his major works of political philosophy, on the one hand, to allow his sovereign to ensure civil peace, and on the other, to enable his sovereign to defend the ...
Boyd, Jonathan A.
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Interpreting Hobbes’s Moral Theory: Rightness, Goodness, Virtue, and Responsibility
The paper argues that the moral philosophy of Thomas Hobbes is unified by a complex conception of reason that imposes consistency norms of both rationality and reasonableness.
S. A. LLOYD
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Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory
ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
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