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, 2015 What is the moral law and what role does it and should it play in political theory and political practice? In this entry we will try to answer these important questions by first examining what the moral law is, before investigating the different ways in ...
Formosa, Paul
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Nietzsche's Conception of Skepticism as Intellectual Virtue and Vice
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1466-1485, December 2025.Abstract Recent approaches are unable to make full sense of Nietzsche's distinction between weak and strong skepticism (BGE 208–209; A54). In this paper, I propose an alternative interpretation. My suggestion is that this distinction is best understood in the context of his virtue epistemology.
Lorenzo Serini
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The Power of Persuasion. Rhetoric, Common Judgment and Machiavelli in Hobbes
Scienza & Politica, 2019 In this article, I explore the elusive function of rhetoric as a means to political pacification. With particular reference to Hobbes’s doctrine of the prophetic foundation of commonwealths, I contend that public persuasion, while being in most cases ...
Guido Frilli
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Reflections on morality in Renaissance thought [PDF]
, 2015 We can read about the morality of that time in works by authors who describe or criticize the conduct and activity of the members of those classes taking the lead in the morality of that time.
Gluchman, Vasil
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Rousseau's Freedom as Recognition
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1357-1374, December 2025.Abstract To yearn for freedom is to want to be seen by others as someone. Rousseau, I believe, held such a conception of freedom, alongside his intricate theory of human passions. This essay examines how freedom relates to such passions, and in particular, to the Rousseauian notion of amour‐propre.
Julian Perilla
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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The Rescue of Machiavelli from the Perspective of Hannah Arendt
Desafíos, 2013 From Arendt’s own considerations, this article seeks an approach to the theory of a thinker such as Niccolo Machiavelli, whose relevance is unquestionable, but for Arendt's thinking constitutes a fundamental theoretic.
Mery Castillo Cisneros
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„Cum trăim este atât de departe de cum ar trebui să trăim”: contemporaneitatea lui Machiavelli [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2021 Interview with Georgios ...
Jozef Matula
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The construction of corruption, or rules of separation and illusions of purity in bourgeois societies [PDF]
, 2003 George W. Bush and his "coalition of the willing" wage war on the corrupt regime of Saddam Hussein. Islamic fundamentalists deride their national governments as corrupt and, accordingly, have little love for the United States, a patron of many of these ...
Bratsis, P
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Hydro‐Insurgency: Weaponization of Water Resources and Infrastructure in Northeast Syria
World Water Policy, Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 924-938, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the strategic weaponization of water resources by Turkey‐backed armed groups in Northeast Syria (NES) within the broader context of the Syrian civil war. As the conflict evolved, water infrastructure—dams, rivers, and irrigation systems—became central to warfare, governance, and foreign agendas. The article introduces the
Farhad Hassan Abdullah Mamshai
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