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Rétif de La Bretonne is well known as an erotic writer, but he also imagined strange and exotic worlds as in The Austral Discovery by a Flying Man, first published in 1781. The novel could be seen as a pa- rody of travel books, surprising the reader with
Florence Boulerie
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On the ludicrousness of humanism: the critique of human perfectibility in Pascal and Luther
The text has three levels. On the first level, we follow the semantic construction of the philosophical concept of "humanism", from the artiens in the 13 th Century up to Pico de La Mirandola and his mysticism of "human nature dignity and sufficiency" in
Luiz Felipe Pondé +1 more
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The argentine economic development in Manuel Belgrano`s Thought: The author introduces us in his study by giving a short account of the variations political economy in the course of the last quarter of the century. It is important to note that the first
Oreste Popescu
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The Law Challenged and the Critique of Identity with Emmanuel Levinas. [PDF]
Petrilli S.
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Moral Perfection and the Demand for Human Enhancement
In this article I discuss one of the most significant areas of bioethical interest, which is the problem of moral enhancement. Since I claim that the crucial issue in the current debate on human bioenhancement is the problem of agency, I bring out and examine the conditions of possibility of selfunderstanding, acting subjects attributing responsible ...
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Other title: Employment Law's Clark Kent; Other title: ow You Can be a Superhero, Too!
"7/7/2017."Kansas Human Rights Commission -- Harassment: Demonstrating "Reasonable Care" -- The Complaint Process -- The Investigation -- Disability: Engaging in the Interactive ...
Kansas Human Rights Commission.
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Happiness through human work [PDF]
Presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, MA, August 7th -10th 1998. Published as Proceedings.In what follows, I analyze the nature of work as human action. From there I discuss the triple dimension of human perfectibility through man&
Gichure, Christine Prof.
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On the “Perfect Time of Human Experience”
O artigo articula um ponto de convergência entre Foucault e Agamben, de forma a sublinhar uma confluência em seus pensamentos, a saber, a possibilidade de um pertencer nãocomplicado ao profano, ou ao tempo perfeito da experiência humana. PALAVRAS-CHAVE – Agamben. Experiência humana. Filosofia política. Foucault. Modernidade.
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The Perfect Human and ‘modern cinema’
Abstract While this film has been described as ‘modern’ in terms of its style and structure, approaching the film as ‘modern cinema’ in the terms defined by Richard Rushton allows us to consider the effects of its deliberate disjunction between ‘theatricality’ and ‘absorption’, or an exhibitionistic and a voyeuristic regime.
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The free animal: free will and perfectibility in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality
In his Discourse on Inequality Jean Jacques Rousseau proposes two different interpretations of what distinguishes men from the animals. Firstly he suggests that man is separated from the other animals through his freedom of will.
MacLean, Lee Margaret
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