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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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La interpretación de Lloyd del principio de obligación política de Thomas Hobbes
Estudios de Filosofía, 2016 El presente estudio tiene por objetivo presentar la índole de la interpretación de Sharon Ann Lloyd de la teoría política de Thomas Hobbes y de exponer los argumentos que ella ofrece para soportar la tesis de que la interpretación tradicional (o estándar)
Oswaldo Plata Pineda
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, 2013 Baruch, or Benedictus, Spinoza (1632–77) is the author of works, especially the Ethics and the Theological-Political Treatise, that are a major source of the ideas of the European Enlightenment.
LeBuffe, Michael
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Maldito Spinoza: el ataque de Carl Schmitt al "Tratado teológico-político" de Baruch de Spinoza [PDF]
, 2010 Se exponen los motivos ideológicos del ataque de carl schmitt contra la filosofía política moderna, particularmente contra baruch de spinoza, a partir de la respuesta que éste elaboró frente a thomas hobbes en el siglo xvii.
Fernández-Flórez, Lucía
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, 2018 Gassendi and Hobbes knew each other, and their approaches to philosophy often seem similar. They both criticized the Cartesian epistemology of clear and distinct perception.
Duncan, Stewart, LoLordo, Antonia
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Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
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The Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Monist, Materialist and Mechanist [PDF]
, 2012 This essay will present Hobbes as the most consistent philosopher of the 17th century, and show that in all areas his endeavors have cogency that is unrivalled, in many ways even to this day.
Machamer, Peter
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