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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Thomas Hobbes"”.
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O Leviatã de Thomas Hobbes
… serão norteados pela perspectiva teórica de Thomas Hobbes, mais precisamente, pela obra O Leviatã, do mesmo autor. Tendo como vetor principal o absolutismo, faremos, para um melhor entendimento, um contraponto com o liberalismo, além de contextualizarmos as ideias do autor. Levantaremos …
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Thomas Hobbes and the reception of early-modern Epicureanism
… (Epicurea) within the philosophical system of Thomas Hobbes in general; it examines all aspects of Hobbesian philosophy, viz. first philosophy, physics, anthropology, ethics, and politics within the context of the revival of early-modem Epicureanism and atomism in England as well as Europe. …
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ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΥΣΤΑΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΟΥ ΣΕ ΘΕΩΡΙΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΛΑΙΟΥ (THOMAS HOBBES-JOHN LOCKE)
… OF TWO MAJOR POLITICAL AND STATE THEORIES (THOMAS HOBBES-JOHN LOCKE) OF THE NASCENT BOURGEOIS SOCIETY DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS RECONSTRUCTION IS TO LOCATE THEIR PEMISES AS SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORIES, AS WELL ASTO ANALYZE PROBLEMS OF SOVERIEGNTY, THE FORMATION OF …
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The A Priori Nature of the Political: Democracy and Scientific Method in Thomas Hobbes
My dissertation provides a treatment of Hobbes's politics in light of his conception of scientific method. The scholarship devoted to these two components of Hobbes's thought, that is his account of scientific method and his political philosophy, have largely existed in isolation from one another. …
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
… 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 theology that they are positing. I argue that the key to …
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ‘le hobbisme le plus parfait’: An historical and philosophical study of Rousseau’s engagement with Thomas Hobbes and Hobbism
… engagement with the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and Hobbism. This involves tracing Hobbes’s French reception in the first half of the eighteenth century amongst authors with whom Rousseau was familiar, thereby elucidating the context in which he responded to Hobbesian ideas and …
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Henri Bergson and the Superiority Theory of Humor
… on the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Hobbes. Next, I discuss Francis Hutcheson and Camille Atkinson?s, a contemporary writer, criticisms of Hobbes and the superiority theory of humor respectively. Finally, after an interpretation of Bergson?s theory as a superiority theory, …
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The Grammar of Obligation: An Investigation of the Views of Four British Moralists
… at the views of four British moral philosophers: Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Richard Price, and Henry Sidgwick. Although two of these philosophers give naturalistic accounts of obligation and two give intuitionistic accounts; I argue that in all four cases the view in question is marred by …
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Obligación política en el caso del genocidio armenio
… en argumentos de la teoría contractualista de Thomas Hobbes y John Locke. La misma tesis es analizada desde la perspectiva del Juego Limpio, en este caso la conclusión no es tan clara, sin embargo, plantea un nuevo problema sobre el Derecho de los Pueblos que deberá ser abordado en otra …
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Polícia e Direitos Humanos : aproximações e distanciamentos
… a teoria do pacto social do filósofo inglês Thomas Hobbes e as questões que se ergueram a partir da Revolução Francesa; das duas Grandes Guerras Mundiais; da criação da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) e da proclamação da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos até os dias atuais. E para …
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The autonomy of the political
… 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 arguments …
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
… found in the contemporary political treatises of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan (1651) and John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1689). The three-part argument asks what is the state of nature, what is the natural man, and what is the just political system that emerges from these definitions. …
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Descartes' Letters to Pere marin Mersenne, Le Minime, on the Science of Sound and Music, 1629-40
… Gassend, André Rivet, Jean-Baptiste van Helmont, Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon, etc. Although few of Mersenne's own letters are extant, at present the ongoing publication of the responses to his correspondence numbers thirteen volumes. Of Mersenne's other works related to music, only two are …
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Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the reconstruction of early modern conceptions of political freedom
… my dissertation analyzes the works of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Henry Bibb, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass.</p>
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Civil War and the Government of Factions in Hobbes and Foucault
… looking precisely to his philosophical opponent, Thomas Hobbes, to do so. I argue that civil war is philosophically undertheorized primarily because insufficient attention has been paid to the first term in the conjunction—the 'civil' determination of civil war—and a reconstruction of Hobbes’s …
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