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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Polis"”.
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The Death and Life of the Polis
… in Chapter 2 of Book I of the Politics that the polis exists by nature. I argue that this notion of a natural polis, what I call the Naturalness Thesis, is fundamentally important to Aristotle's political philosophy. The Naturalness Thesis is discussed in only one place by Aristotle, and it is …
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Multifunction Polis : lost city of opportunity / Coral Baines.
This thesis examines the Multifunction Polis concept, its possibilities and its failure.
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Embedded autonomies projecting an American middle-Class polis
… step in envisioning a new, American middle-class polis, defined here as the prior definition of a social and political form of existence. It harkens back to the very origin of the American mythology of self-sufficiency, to the Mayflower Compact, which set up a self-governance which understood that …
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"The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens
<p>This dissertation focuses on the artistic, archaeological, and literary representation and commemoration of the Classical Athenian navy. While the project stresses the various and often contradictory ways in which the Athenians perceived and represented their navy, its larger purpose is to argue …
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The networked polis: Unravelling Magnesia's place in the Hellenistic world through the digital reconstruction of journeys.
In the late third century BC, the Greek city of Magnesia-on-the-Maeander in western Anatolia embarked on a monumental building programme and dispatched religious envoys (theoroi) to more than 200 cities to inaugurate a panhellenic festival. A body of inscriptions reveals a series of journeys as far …
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Nature versus freedom : Hannah Arendt's theory of the political sphere from the polis to the modern world
… of the self-understanding of the ancient Greek polis to its deployment in the modern context. With The Human Condition as the central text in my analysis, I consider the key philosophical-theoretical commitments surrounding the theory of the political sphere, notably Arendt's opposition of …
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Hubungan tekanan kerja dan kecerdasan emosi dengan komitmen kerja dalam kalangan pegawai polis di batalion 6 PGA Muar Johor
Kerjaya kepolisan adalah kerjaya yang memberikan tekanan kerja kepada pegawai polis kerana melibatkan tugasan yang mencabar mental, fizikal dan keselamatan diri. Kecerdasan emosi pula dikatakan sebagai faktor yang diperlukan dalam memastikan komitmen kerja yang cemerlang. Maka, objektif kajian ini …
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Patterns of Exile in Greek Tragedy
… the social, religious and political life in the polis, constitutes in the tragic plays an exploration of civic identity by means of its opposite, reinforcing its importance through its very antithesis. This ideological view of tragic exile is supported by the plays examined which are organized …
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Space in Aristophanes: Portraying the Civic and Domestic Worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps
… way the impact of the dysfunction of the polis - the assembly, the agora, the boule, the lawcourts - on the oikos and the householder. The plays not only explore what happens to the oikos itself, but also the implications for a polis in which the oikos loses its place of prominence. …
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Klasik dönem İslam siyaset düşüncesinde siyasal olan, iktidar ve hukuk
… olarak ise İslam siyaset düşüncesine dair polis ve siyaset üzerinden bir siyasal olan tanımlaması inşa etmeye çalışmaktadır. Bu açıdan polis, hükümet etme aracını ya da iktidarı nitelerken siyaset, adalet sürecini ya da hukuku nitelemektedir. Siyasal olan ise ikisinin etkileşime geçtiği alanda …
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Ambivalence and penetration of boundaries in the worship of Dionysos: Analysing the enacting of psychical conflicts in religious ritual and myth, with reference to societal structure
… attempt to keep in place a false opposition of polis and phusis, self and Other, resulting in the perpetuation of oppressive structures and processes. The primary methodological claim of the thesis is that prior psychoanalytic engagements with cultus scholarship have suffered from being either …
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Examining the Nature of Socratic Citizenship: An Inquiry Into the Voegelinian Conception of Consciousness
… the highest level of consciousness within the polis, I argue that Socrates’ efforts to democratize truth are the direct result of his adherence to divine authority. In doing so, I assert that he is neither a self-interested civic actor nor an atheist. By examining Platonic philosophy through …
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The Efficacy of Different Analysis Algorithms for Summarizing Online Deliberations
… past decade, online deliberation platforms like Polis have expanded the reach of deliberative democracy, which calls for political decisions to be based on the results of fair and balanced discussions among citizens, by enabling larger deliberations. However, as these discussions often generate a …
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The Power of Space: The Acropolis, the Theatre of Dionysos, and Tragedy in the 5th Century BCE
… space of the Theatre of Dionysos and the Acropolis during tragic performances in Athens during the 5th century BCE. The theatre's location on the south slope of the Acropolis allowed the Acropolis' depiction of Athenian power, I argue, to speak to audience members as they watched dramatic …
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Re-imagining primary school children’s citizenship participation
… which I conceptualise as a form of Citizenship Polis. My observations reveal that children ‘do’ citizenship which is defined, reproduced and created by their peer cultures. I found social bonding between children is a precursor to their citizenship solidarity and that children’s rights as …
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Problems of the 'Political' in British Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics, 2003-2012
… is discussed, using Ancient Greek readings of polis (Arendt, 1958; Yunis, 1996). Subsequent related topics for discussion include critical irony, subjectivity, feminist theory, and fantasy. Source material for their identification includes my own poetry (Morris, 2006; 2007), the poetry pamphlet …
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Tra il Salso ed il Platani. Fortificazioni, sistemi insediativi e viabilità tra l'età arcaica e l'Alto Medioevo
… viario nei secoli tra la fondazione della polis, nel 580 a.C., e l’Alto Medioevo.
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Ancient Greek Tragedy: a study on the nature of Dystopianism
… and role of women especially rearguing the polis/oikos relationship and the position of the hero in the city.
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