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Towards a Responsible Liberalism
Kyklos, EarlyView.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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The concept of perfectibility on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pedagogy.
, 2018 On the current research, it is intended to enlarge the theme related to the concept of perfectibility on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Pedagogy. Beyond the epistemological meanings on the concept of perfectibility, the attempt was identifying what the ...
Koga, Ana Lúcia
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Educational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 378-394, June 2026.Abstract The tendency to silence higher education teachers and students around the globe who express opinions that others regard as wrong is increasing. This lack of interest in listening to, and at times silencing, people with opposing views raises the question of what makes higher education unique and worth protecting.
Silvia Edling
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AI Authoritarianism: Towards an Analytical Framework
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This Intervention offers a call for investigating the deepening alignment of artificial intelligence and authoritarian politics. The paper highlights three key features of AI that inflect the workings and logics of authoritarianism: (selective) inhumanisation, the cult of intelligence and scaling. We argue that AI is not simply extending,
Thomas Dekeyser +2 more
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Do humanismo ridículo: a crítica da prefectibilidade humana em Pascal e Lutero
Kriterion, 2006 O texto tem três camadas. A primeira apresenta a construção semântica do conceito filosófico de "humanismo" a partir dos artiens medievais (século XIII), chegando ao seu clímax na Renascença, identificado com a obra de Pico de La Mirândola e sua mística ...
Luiz Felipe Pondé
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 123-142, March 2026.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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, 2019 Buchanan and Powell hope to rescue optimism about moral perfectibility from the ’received view’ of human evolution, by tweaking our view of the innate character of morality.
Clarke, E, Clarke, Ellen
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The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 79-95, March 2026.Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
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Perfectionism and competitive anxiety in athletes: Differentiating striving for perfection and negative reactions to imperfection [PDF]
, 2007 Whereas some researchers have argued that perfectionism in sports is maladaptive because it is related to dysfunctional characteristics Such as higher competitive anxiety, the present article argues that striving for perfection is not maladaptive and is ...
Stoeber, Joachim +4 more
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Relocating Stevenson: From a Victorian to a post/modern world
Literacy Trek, 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) appears to be a Victorian novel. Yet, the highly acclaimed novella experiments with traditional concept of dualism and rejects the notion of dependent entities within a ...
Azer Banu Kemaloğlu
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