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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"On Liberty"”.
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A critical examination and contemporary application of John Stuart Mill's principle of liberty as propounded in his essay "On liberty".
Mill's essay On Liberty has been regarded as one of the greatest landmarks and heritages of Western liberal thought. Mill's pleas for the search for truth and the march of mind toward human progress through his principle of liberty as propounded in his essay On Liberty have everlasting value. At …
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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
<p> Can the concepts and ideas concerning freedom and bondage found within African American Slave narratives be read as political philosophic claims? How would one position the perspectives on liberty and liberalism found in slave narratives within the nexus of the history of political philosophy? …
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Truth and Enlargement in the Political Thought of John Stuart Mill
<p>This dissertation is an inquiry into the political thought of John Stuart Mill. It concerns Mill’s varying usages of the concept of truth and the critical role of enlargement in the influential political doctrines of his later work. The study begins by observing several deficiencies in the …
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Effect of Temperature and Chemical Additives on the Efficacy of the Herbicides Glufosinate and Glyphosate in Weed Management of Liberty-Link and Roundup-Ready Soybeans
The introduction of herbicide resistant crops offers producers many more options for weed control systems. These crops allow environmentally safe, non-selective herbicides to be used as selective herbicides, broadening the spectrum of weeds controlled, while not harming the crop. As these crops are …
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The Theme of Free Will in Milton's Major Poems
<p>One of the most vital elements in the poetry of John Milton is the concept of the freedom of the will, a concept that is one of the more obvious themes in his four most important poems. In Paradise Lost, free will functions as a destructive impulse motivating the tragedy. In Paradise Regained, …
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Capturing Elusive Metrics in Economics
This dissertation presents three chapters that address distinct economic challenges requiring novel data sources and methodologies. Chapter 1 introduces a computational text analysis technique for historical economic texts using natural language processing. Chapter 2 employs an experimental design …
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"""We the People"" and the Rhetorics of Republicanism in America, 1776--1845"
"As politicians of the Revolutionary generation knew, and as those who inherited the Revolution came to understand, American republicanism was malleable precisely because it was so vaguely defined and so absolutely revered; such knowledge made republicanism very useful. American republicanism can …