Temporalità plurale e contingenza: l’interpretazione spinoziana di Machiavelli [PDF]
, 2004 Spinoza dedicates two remarkable, though brief, paragraphs of his Political Treatise to Machiavelli’s thought: in the first one he investigates the political meaning of the writings of the Florentine secretary, whereas in the second one he summarizes ...
Morfino, Vittorio
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Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
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Notes on Chaos: Draft Political Treatises
Open Journal of Political Science, 2018 The theory of chaos has hitherto been pursued in the natural sciences. However, it may illuminate some issues in the social sciences too.
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The impossibility of sympathy [PDF]
, 2010 Copyright © 2010 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher.
Gaston, S
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Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
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El escepticismo en el pensamiento político e histórico de David Hume [PDF]
, 2018 This essay argues that Hume’s political and historical thought is well read as skeptical and skeptical in a way that roots it deeply in the Hellenistic traditions of both Pyrrhonian and Academical thought. It deploys skeptical instruments to undermine
Fosl, Peter S.
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Illustriousness in the farmhouse villa: reading virtue from a Flemish-Veronese merchant family's history [PDF]
, 2011 The Italian nobility has a long history tied to landownership, a dynamic example of which lies in the history of Verona from the late sixteenth century.
Dewhirst, Catherine
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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Del debate a la propaganda política mediante la Querella de las Mujeres en Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, Diego de Valera y Álvaro de Luna [PDF]
Talia dixit, 2012 This article analyzes three works composed one after another during the reign of John II of Castile, probably in its more unrestrained period, between 1438 and 1446, in the light of the political, cultural and literary background they reveal: Juan ...
Florence Serrano
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Thermidor: The Revolution Betrayed in Trotsky, Orwell and Serge
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Vaninskaya
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