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“Civilization”—Etymology and Early Meanings in the French Tradition [PDF]
Studia GilsonianaThe term civilisation initially had a legal meaning but gradually expanded to include social refinement, cultural progress, and historical development.
Wojciech Daszkiewicz
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Moving Beyond Morphology: Genomic Insights Into Evolutionary Histories of Haplosclerid Sponges
Zoologica Scripta, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 177-194, January 2026.ABSTRACT Accurate taxonomic identification is essential for defining species boundaries and understanding biodiversity. However, this remains challenging for groups where morphological character evolution is poorly understood or diagnostic traits are absent.
Joëlle van der Sprong +6 more
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1274-1290, December 2025.Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
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The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 321-339, August 2025.Abstract In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow suggest that almost all modern features of social structures— cities, religious rituals, kingships, accounting practices, rational arguments, private property, and so on—date to epochs prior to the neolithic revolution.
Elias L. Khalil
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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Formation et phylogénie des concepts de « marché » dans l’économie politique au xviiie siècle
Revue de la Régulation, 2014 How did the economists of the 18th century integrate the word “market” into their treatises? While the market is a matter for ordinary practices until the beginning of the 18th century, it becomes afterward an economic concept in several authors.
Pascal Charbonnat
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Natural Rights, Constituent Power, and the Stain of Constitutionalism
The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 4, Page 864-893, July 2024.The power to make constitutions (the so‐called constituent power) is predominantly understood today as a legally unlimited power belonging to the people. This understanding sits uncomfortably with constitutionalism: the idea that public powers are legally limited.
Raffael N. Fasel
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OLD AND NEW LEGAL TYPOLOGIES [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2014 The existence of legal constants does not preclude the process of legal change, of its permanent evolution. Thus, the legal doctrine emphasizes that there is no legislation valid for all times, the legal progress mentioned by Turgot being ubiquitous ...
Laura - Cristiana SPĂTARU - NEGURĂ
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Differences of Circumstance, Differences of Fact: Jefferson’s Medialist View of History
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2015 It is often assumed that Jefferson—acquainted with the writings of Scottish thinkers such as Adam Ferguson, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Lord Kames, Adam Smith, and John Millar—was a stadialist of some persuasion, as several of his writings are at least ...
M. Andrew Holowchak
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QUELQUES RÉFLEXIONS SUR LES THÉORIES DE LA VALEUR ET LES FAITS ÉCONOMIQUES ET SOCIAUX : Divergences, contradictions, nuances, raffinements, prolongements et corrélations [PDF]
Cahiers Africains des Droits de l’Homme et de la Démocratie ainsi que du Développement Durable, 2022 Les théories sont des pensées élaborées manifestées de manière cohérente, elles ne sont ni permanentes ni continuelles encore moins figées. Elles sont en mouvement, susceptible de varier et évolutives.
Félix Médard KANKU MULUMBA
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