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Left, Right and Centre: National Political Authority and Its Symbolisation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This lecture explores ideas through which we both do and analyse national politics in the modern world, as both concepts and symbols, examining three conceptual pairs: Left/Right, Centre/Periphery and Liberal/Authoritarian. I argue that Left/Right is a symbolic structure that is necessary for democratic politics, but not reflective of deep ...
Jonathan Hearn
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Ancient rhetoric instructs the advocate to evoke in themselves the emotions they wish to elicit in the judge in order to successfully act as the Fürsprecher (advocates) of their clients. Taken to its extreme, this formula of “affection through auto‐affection” renders the figure of the Fürsprecher a double‐sided representative who compensates ...
Shira Miron
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A Public Philosophy for Public Administration in Times of Democratic Crisis
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public administration is at the center of the global democratic crisis. Meeting this challenge requires more than managerial and analytic competence—it requires a public philosophy grounded in the first principles of democratic ethos. We offer such a philosophy, drawing on four seminal thinkers whose concepts reflect the conditions public ...
Curtis Ventriss, Tina Nabatchi
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Is Hobbes Really an Antirealist about Accidents?
European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2018 In Metaphysical Themes, Robert Pasnau interprets Thomas Hobbes as an anti-realist about all accidents in general. In opposition to Pasnau, we argue that Hobbes is a realist about some accidents (e.g., motion and magnitude).
Sahar Joakim, C. P. Ragland
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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O CONTRATUALISMO E O ESTADO: HOBBES VERSUS LOCKE?
Revista Processus de Estudos de Gestão, Jurídicos e Financeiros, 2018 O presente estudo pretende propor uma nova leitura sobre a teoria do con-trato social de Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) e John Locke (1632-1704). Assim, serão levantadas algumas questões que envolvem os pontos de contato entre as duas teorias, buscando ...
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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Estudios Políticos, 2010 En este artículo se presentan los elementos centrales del modelo contractualista clásico de legitimación del Estado, expuesto por Thomas Hobbes en el Leviatán. Se cuestiona la interpretación propuesta por Leo Strauss sobre la filosofía política de Hobbes,
Francisco Cortés Rodas
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Descartes's Eudaimonism: The Virtuously Content Life
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines René Descartes's engagement with the ethical tradition of eudaimonism, which considers happiness or flourishing (eudaimonia) the highest good. On the one hand, Descartes can be read as an eudaimonist because he is in rich dialogue with certain ancient thinkers (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and the Stoics) and shares ...
Brandon Smith
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