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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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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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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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Winston (Michael E.). From Perfectibility to Perversion. Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France.
, 2007 Banderier Gilles. Winston (Michael E.). From Perfectibility to Perversion. Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France.. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 85, fasc. 3-4, 2007.
Banderier, Gilles
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Les lettres de Lord Chesterfield : decency, ou salvation by « Les Grâces »
Revue LISA, 2015 This contribution explores the notion of « decency » in Lord Chesterfield’s letters to his son. Against the familiar assumption that decency is an inherently English disposition, the discussion first introduces Chesterfield as G Orwell’s inverted image ...
Thierry Labica
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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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, 2011 Dietrich Benner vertritt die Auffassung, die moderne Pädagogik setze sich mit den Begriffen der Perfektibilität und der Bildsamkeit vom teleologischen Denken früherer Epochen ab. Diese Darstellung wird durch die Tatsache konterkariert, dass Benner selbst
Giesinger, Johannes
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Inter-Faith Reading of Perfect Man With Mystical Approach [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2010 The expression Insan –e kamil (perfect man) is often said to have first been used by Muhyiddin ibn 'Arabi (1165 -1240AD), though the concept of the term is much older.
Fatemeh Musavi, Mohammadkazem Shaker
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The Vital Dynamism of the Voice in Diderot
Etudes Epistémè, 2016 Conscious of the difficulty of expressing sound in a culture still under the influence of a form of rationalism that privileges the sense of sight over the sense of hearing, Diderot never stopped inscribing and exploring the voice in his philosophical ...
Hélène Cussac
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Perfectness of certain subsemigroups of a perfect semigroup
Mathematische Annalen, 1990 Let S be an abelian semigroup with involution \(s\mapsto s^*\) and identity 0. A function \(\rho\) : \(S\to {\mathbb{C}}\) is called a semicharacter if (i) \(\rho (0)=1\), (ii) \(\rho (s+t)=\rho (s)\rho (t)\), and (iii) \(\rho (s^*)=\overline{\rho (s)}\).
Nakamura, Yoshihiro +1 more
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