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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Political theories"”.
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A study in the originality of Hobbes' political theories
These comments of W. R. Sorley asserting the originality of Hobbes arein conformity with the statements made by Hobbes himself; and togetherwith many others of similar purport, they interested me in the problemof Hobbes' originality, a problem which it is the purpose of this studyto examine. That …
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Provocation In The Political Theories Of Plato, Rousseau And Nietzsche
… politics. In addition, I argue that interpreting political provocation through such a methodological framework has relevant applicability extending beyond theory to real-life provocateurs and events whose developments and outcomes are politically consequential, particularly with respect to helping …
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The Political Theories of Benjamin Disraeli as Expressed through his Novels
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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
… or anti-speciesist understanding of moral and political community (one that would be a better alternative to traditional anti-speciesist moral and political theories).</p>
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
This thesis assesses the role of theology in the political theories of the seventeenth-century contemporaries Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard \v'instanley. It claims that a proper understanding of their respective political theories relies upon a thorough and nuanced understanding of the nature of the …
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Shifting Terrains: Upsetting the Balance Between Public Good and Private Interest in the Takings Debate
… the result in a radical shift in judicial and political theories, especially in terms of the application of Epstein's approach to takings, and the emergence of corporate funded public interest law firms and umbrella organizations established to promote a free enterprise approach to …
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Dual Enrollment Within a State P--16 Education Model: A Micro -Political Perspective
… concepts from inter-organizational and micro-political theories, as well as Stone's Polis Model for Decision Analysis Strategies. The results of this study provide a greater understanding of challenges faced in inter-organizational (P-16) models---in this case Florida's dual enrollment …
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Divergence and Disagreement in Contemporary Anarchist Communism: Social Ecology and Anarchist Primitivism
… of Anarchist Communist theory, and examine their theories in four key areas: The Primitive, History, Reason and Rationality, and Technology. Examination of these areas serves to define the projects themselves, as well as highlighting how they disagree. To explain why they disagree, this work uses …
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Caring Without Sharing: Philanthropy's Creation and Destruction of the Common World
… builds and undermines the common world. Political science treatments of philanthropy have focused mainly on its role in the development of civil society, with a recent turn towards critiques of philanthropy as an instrument of elite power and tension between private wealth and democratic …
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Justice and the demands of realism
… the demands of realism should be addressed in political theories of justice. It asks whether the demands of realism should affect the construction of principles of justice and, if so, how principles should respond to those demands. To address the problems posed by the demands of realism, the …
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Public occupations : art theory, cultural methodology, and social change
… I draw on a variety of feminist, cultural, and political theories in order to analyse art theory in relation to art projects and in relation to other cultural forms. My approach and discussion has two significant levels: one, the dissertation produces a complex analysis of the imbrication of …
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Oil and Politics in North Dakota
… experienced a substantial shift in economic and political activity due to oil. In addition to jobs and revenue, corporate interests have surged into the state with a dominating force. As players in a highly valued industry, oil companies have worked hard to protect and uphold viable markets in …
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Rights and climate change mitigation - why the individual rights approach to climate change mitigation is not the right approach
… question in the light of three philosophical theories of rights: (1) analytical theories of rights, (2) moral theories of rights, and (3) political theories of justice. The dissertation argues that duties to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions do not correspond, either conceptually or morally, …
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Myths and Blueprints: Enacting Utopia through Fiction
… science based on its classification as either political theory or literary genre. While both approaches are well-suited to the academic study of a concept that does not exist in reality, each on its own also lacks the kind of efficacy that could be offered by an integrated situation of utopia …
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Toward a Political Conception of Minority Rights: Reconciling Sovereignty, Human Rights and Minority Claims
… research project has some implications for both theories of minority rights and human rights. On the one hand, the research employs the topic of minority rights to shed light on deficiencies of the existing political theories of human rights. On the other hand, it uses the political theory to …
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George Liska's Realist Alliance Theory, And The Transformation Of Nato
In many aspects, political theory forms a subjective structure of this abstract science. Perhaps, it is due to the fact that unlike natural sciences or mathematics, social sciences often lack the privilege of testing the theories in absolute and unadulterated conditions. Nonetheless, such nature of …
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The Classics and the Broader Public in Philadelphia, 1783-1788: Avenues for Engagement
… a pervasive presence on the city's cultural, political, and physical landscape. As the American nation commenced its republican experiment, references to the classics in Philadelphia especially emerged as a vehicle and vocabulary employed by statesmen for fashioning a people, political …
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Constructing a Politics of Knowledge in the Age of the Internet
… and reflexive modernization. As these social and political theories operate across academic disciplines and organizational systems, new formulations of knowledge production arise such as transdisciplinary research. Transdisciplinary research can be considered as a model for knowledge production …
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Protest Movements of the 1960s - 1970s in Latin America and the United States
… an integral part of a complex transcultural and political connection that exists between Latin America and the United States. Exploring the transnational culture of music in the Americas, this project considers the historical and socio-political issues which contribute to this transcultural …
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Algorithmic Sovereignty: Machine Learning, Ground Truth, and the State of Exception
… influence of algorithmic security technology on political theories of sovereignty and the state of exception. In computer science, an exception is a special circumstance that prevents a program from terminating normally. In political theory, the state of exception, as theorized by Carl Schmitt …
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