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, 2016 In H.G. Wells’s 1897 novel The War of the Worlds, England is invaded by monstrous Martians who have giant brains and virtually no bodies. The narrator speculates that these bodiless beings are a highly-evolved species that was once much like humans but ...
Braham, Kira Renee
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Les Lumières contre le progrès ? La naissance de l'idée de perfectibilité
, 1998 Florence Lotterie : Enlightenment against progress ? The birth of the idea of perfectibility. With his Discourse on the origins of inequality, Rousseau coined a neologism that was to become one of the great concepts of Enlightenment thinking, namely ...
Lotterie, Florence, Florence Lotterie
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Human perfectibility and social communication: A study of William Godwin's "Political Justice".
, 1999 British philosopher William Godwin (1756--1836), in the tradition of the French Enlightenment, held a supreme faith in the power of reason and truth to improve Society and the human condition.
Barrett, Mark Alan
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Governing the Algorithmic City
Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 102-168, Spring 2025.
Seth Lazar
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A Hand Out in the Dark: Rethinking the Human in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Nine Lives”
, 2020 The Science Fiction genre, according to pioneer Science Fiction scholar Darko Suvin, has the power to elucidate “future-bearing elements from the empirical environment”(Suvin 7). In her short story, “Nine Lives,” Ursula K. Le Guin uses the trope of human
Walker, Syntyche
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Some other kind of being: Human nature and animal subjects in ape language research
, 2010 When asked to describe herself, Koko the nonhuman primate replied in sign-language that she was indeed a ‘fine animal gorilla’. One of several nonhuman primates that have been undergoing language training since the 1970s, Koko’s ability to grasp the ...
Rebecca Bishop
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The Law Challenged and the Critique of Identity with Emmanuel Levinas. [PDF]
Int J Semiot Law, 2022 Petrilli S.
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Human, Animal, Other: Interrogating Human to Animal Transformation in d'Aulnoy and Morrison
, 2022 This thesis links the transformation of a human into a nonhuman animal in the 17th-century fairy tales (les contes de fées) of Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy and in Toni Morrison's 20th-century novel Song of Solomon.
Haley Jane Sheetz
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Económica, 1960 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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Moral Perfection and the Demand for Human Enhancement
ETHICS IN PROGRESS, 2015 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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