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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Bodin"”.
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Francois Hotman and Jean Bodin. Political Activity in Sixteenth Century France
<p>The sixteenth century was a tumultuous age for Europe. The Habsburg dynasty established its hegemony in Europe. The exploration of the New World provided a new source of wonder and wealth. Dynasties changed in France. England had women rulers. The Reformation exploded, transforming the religion …
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La naissance de la science politique moderne dans la Methodus de Jean Bodin : l'héritage de Budé et de Connan, du droit à la politique
… of "political science", developed by Jean Bodin (1529/30-1596) in his Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem (1566; 1572), falls within the scope of a humanist program which restores legal science in the name of scientia civilis. We therefore propose to investigate the line of thoughts …
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The autonomy of the political
… I examine are those of Niccol6 Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and John Rawls. After presenting what I believe to be the most plausible reconstructions of these arguments for the autonomy of the political, I conclude that none of these arguments succeed in their task. The …
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A Comparison of the French and Latin Editions of the Third Book of Jean Bodin's REPUBLIQUE
… and Latin editions of the six volumes of Jean Bodin’s Republique. The value of this comparison lies in ascertaining the changes in Bodin’s political, social, and economic ideas after the ten years had elapsed between his first French edition, published in 1576, and his Latin edition, published …
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A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe
… the contemporary demonologies by such authors as Bodin, and Kramer and Sprenger. The thesis is divided into five chapters, including an Introduction and Conclusion. The body of the thesis focuses on religious, scientific, and secular beliefs (Ch. 2), appearance and characteristics of witches (Ch. …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
… brought in dialogue with figures such as Jean Bodin and Immanuel Kant in order to elaborate the mechanisms of defense operative in their conceptual foundations. Throughout, it is argued that mechanisms of social defense function in relation to the formation of aesthetic regimes. Biopolitical …
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The concept of citizenship in France from 1789 to Napoleon
… 212 and had more recently been employed by Jean Bodin. It consisted in the holding of a set of rights and duties in relation to the state and other citizens but implied no political role or power. It was also to be enjoyed equally and universally among all adult men. In my reading, the Revolution …
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The Problem of Life: Governing Bodies Before and Beyond Biopolitics
… citizen Plato’s regime requires. Jean Bodin’s purgation-politique wildtype governs through sovereign command authorized by divine law, identifying and destroying bodies whose demonic corruption threatens the theological-political order. Alexis de Tocqueville’s moeurs-politique wildtype …
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Energy storage and dissipation in polyurea composites
Polyurea composites have been of interest for a variety of engineering applications for their highly dissipative yet resilient behavior under deformation. Polyurea composites have been considered as a self-healing and anticorrosion coating in building applications,and more interestingly, as a …
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Road Traffic Noise - Factors modifying its relation to annoyance and cardiovascular disease
Traffic noise causes annoyance and sleep disturbance and has been linked with several other adverse effects on life quality and health, including increased risk of hypertension and myocardial infarction. Conservative estimates assume that at least one million healthy life years are lost every year …
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Food intake, socio-economic factors and health status of free-living, white residents living in an elderly residential facility in Morningside, Durban
Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Applied Science in Food and Nutrition in the Department of Food and Nutrition: Consumer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Durban University of Technology, 2020.
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High speed communication
This master thesis examines the problems that occur for high speed serial communication. The thesis focus on serial transmission through backplane, coaxial cable and optical fiber. Experiments using RocketIOTM GTP and GTX transceivers are performed at data rates of up to 5 Gbit/s. Measurements are …
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Energy storage and dissipation in polyurea composites
Polyurea composites have been of interest for a variety of engineering applications via their highly dissipative yet resilient behavior under deformation. Polyurea composites have been considered as a self-healing and anticorrosion coating in building applications, and more interestingly, as a …
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Intuitive Numerical Information Processes in Consumer Judgment
Numerical information is ubiquitous in modern life. The prevalence of numerical information in the marketplace necessitates understanding how consumers handle and interpret that information, for both theoretical and practical reasons. Past research has largely focused on consumers’ encoding of …
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Buried Pipe Life Prediction in Sewage Type Environments
In this study, we develop a method of life prediction of buried pipe using the concepts of a characteristic damage state and damage accumulation. A stress analysis corresponding to the different types of load during service with environmental effects, a moisture diffusion model, and a lifetime …