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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Absolutism"”.
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Against Lying: Some Historical Arguments in Favor of Moral Absolutism
<p>Beginning with Augustine of Hippo, an unbroken lineage of philosophical arguments has been in place supporting an absolutist prohibition against all lies, a lineage that has often been referred to as the absolutist `tradition' against lying. This paper explores this so-called tradition by first …
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Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism: The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100-1600
In focusing on the theology of God's power, this dissertation neither presents an exhaustive historical biography of political theology nor exalts its career in the Western history of ideas. Rather, it attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of this field depended on the dialectic …
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College Student Identity and Attitudes Toward Gays and Lesbians
… comparing persons who were higher and lower on absolutism, attitude toward gays and lesbians were most similar in achieved identity groups, while those who were foreclosed were the most disparate. In the interaction between identity, absolutism and gender role stereotyping, some groups utilized …
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The Character and Military Abilities of the First Duke of Buckingham
… him that all the symptoms of the ills of Stuart absolutism are present.
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Catholic schools and implementation of policies in educating our future 1996 document: a case of three selected catholic schools in Lusaka province, Zambia.
… guided by O'Byrne and Keane Catholic theory of Absolutism and Consistency. Three Catholic schools in Lusaka Province were purposively selected and participated in this study. The objectives of the study were to: find out why Catholic Schools remained with the primary and secondary school system, …
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Exploring Pedestrianism in Contemporary Streetscape Planning: A Scrutiny of the YongeTOmorrrow Initiative in Downtown Toronto
… will be urged to move along under the regulatory absolutism of The Safe Streets Act, 1999. In this context, efficient flow is being reshaped to privilege consumption while continuing to restrain the liberty it alleges to cultivate.
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The A Priori Nature of the Political: Democracy and Scientific Method in Thomas Hobbes
… finds is not a simple defense of authoritarian absolutism, but instead a much more progressive political theory, one that is structured around the democratic power of "the people" as a constitutive political force.
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Bonds of Nobility and the Culture of Revolt: Provincial Nobles and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France, 1610--1635
… during this period not by the implementation of absolutism, but by the disruption of the culture of revolt.
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Rhetoric and Ethics of Free Speech Discourse on Gab
… speech, including arguments for free speech absolutism. I argue that if free speech arguments on Gab are allowed to play out to their logical ends, the ethical consequences will undermine not only the free speech rights Gabbers purport to love, but the foundations of liberal democracy on …
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
… argumentation that refutes Hobbes’ defense of absolutism and anticipates Locke’s liberal political philosophy, while championing the moral hermit’s life above all political systems. The substantial political argumentation in the novel is presented as a series of distopian and utopian worldviews …
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Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1763-1783
… only in seventeenth-century resistance to Stuart absolutism and but also to the Stuart-imposed government of Edmund Andros over New England. The clergy tended to justify resistance to British policies on the basic grounds of self-defense as conflict with Britain intensified in the mid-1770s. The …
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ΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΕΝΕΤΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΒΕΝΕΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ 1848-49
… POWERS, WHICH ARE REPRESENTED BY THE AUSTRIAN ABSOLUTISM. DUE TO SYSTEMATIC RECORDING OF THESE FACTS AND EXPERIENCES, WE PROVE THE VALUE OF THIS CHOICE IN A CRUCIALTIME AS 1848 IS CONSIDERED. IN ESSENCE, IT WAS THE NEW IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION WHICH HAD DOMINATED ITALY AND LED TO THE NATIONAL …
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Figures and movements in seventeenth century conspiracy plays
… finds itself confronted with a rising absolutism ""from above"" while having to grapple with an epistemology in full transformation ""from below."" This transformation can best be described as a modulation from the Aristotelian paradigm to that of the Cartesian ""rationalist"" model. …
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American Reaction to European Economic Unification
… ethnic and provincial differences, political absolutism and endless conflict, the nations of Western Europe began to make genuine progress toward economic and political unity and stability. The total economic collapse caused by the war and the threat of Communism forced these nations to …
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The Burdens of History: Problems Invoked by Occidental Travel Writing on the Balkans
… borders, ethnography, classification, historical absolutism, and financial exploitation. If this work simplifies or answers "What is Balkan?" then it has failed utterly. We can only hope to further complicate and challenge the dominant discourse of Balkanism to keep the reader's mind alive and …
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Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security
… therefore, through these criticisms of state absolutism and liberalism one therefore ‘finds’ communitarianism as a philosophy to support a right to security. The author’s ‘communitarian’, right to security is based on an expansive interpretation of ‘positive’ duties of the state, to protect, …
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The Concept of Overcoming the Political: An Intellectual Biography of SS-Standartenfuehrer and Professor Dr. Reinhard Hoehn, 1904-1944
… and individualism as continuing vestiges of absolutism and liberalism. This belief led Hoehn to attempt to eliminate the 'individual personalities' of both the state and the Nazi Party. He thus deviated from Nazi ideologues and leaders on these significant matters, while he made compromises …
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Head Studies by Balthasar Denner
… separateinterests and practice local political absolutism. The sovereignty permitted by this provision went so far as to grant the provincial seats the right to negotiate foreign treaties. The terms of the peace upheld the principle, "cujus regio ejus religio." This evolved in practice to mean …
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"Encourager le commerce et répandre les Lumiʹere" : the press, the provinces and the origins of the Revolution in France: 1750-1789
… was antithetical to the tenets of monarchical absolutism. The first part of the dissertation focuses on the origins, form and contents of the provincial press. Faced with the twin obstacles of laws governing censorship and privilege, provincial newspapers eschewed political content and focused …
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Sectarian Value Consciousness of the Japanese Seventh-day Adventists
… emphasis on naturalism, the sentiment of anti-absolutism, and the lack of "sin" consciousness. The value system which was expressed by the sectarian standards of sanctified life naturally faced a cool reception in the general Japanese who were in a completely different value complex. But there …
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