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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Winstanley"”.
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
… Likewise, an appreciation of the nuances of Winstanley's collectivism relies, I claim, upon a thorough grasp of his pantheistic metaphysics. Iviore specifically, I show that, because of his deistic theology, Hobbes is able to posit coherently a compatibilist relationship between the …
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Discursos utópicos seiscentistas na Inglaterra e América
… dessas utopias: The Law of Freedom de Gerrard Winstanley e The Christian Commonwealth de John Eliot. As visões utópicas destas duas obras fornecem-nos uma introspecção no imaginário político que vigorou durante o Interregnum inglês. Escritas em dois hemisférios diferentes e dentro do mesmo …
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'First the Original': the Place of Adam in Seventeenth Century Theories of the Polity
… authors; Roger Williams, John Eliot, Gerrard Winstanley, John Milton and John Locke. In these works varied approaches are observed as the authors interrogate, expand or contract the story and traditions of Adam in their interpretations of its significance to their times and nation; in …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… the radical Civil War pamphleteer Gerrard Winstanley.
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Conceivability, Apriority and Modality
I aim to understand whether apriority entails necessity, aposteriority entails contingency and conceivability entails possibility; that is, the relationship between, and the nature of, rationality and modality. The thesis is split into two parts: one on apriority and modality (chs. 2-4), and …
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Transition planning for young people with severe learning disabilities : social positions and power relationships
A Participative Action Research methodology was used to investigate whether six young people with severe learning disabilities were able to express their views and aspirations during their transition planning meeting. Although the young people were able to make choices and communicate their views …
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Psycho-history: An Integrated Approach to the Teaching of History in the High School
History teaching in schools has sometimes been condemned as dull and irrelevant to life. This is not surprising when one recalls the weary round of talk (unrelieved by chalk) and of dictated notes to be learned and then tested. Such methods almost guarantee boredom, particularly as much of the …
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Materialising cultural value in the English lakes, 1735-1845 : a study of the responses of new landowners to representations of place and people
This thesis explores responses to the cultural construction in the developing identity of the English Lakes from 1735 to 1845, through studies of three landowners. The principal focus is Derwentwater. The Greenwich Hospital held estates from 1735 to 1832, Lord William Gordon from 1781 to 1823, and …