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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"absolutist"”.
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From Piazza to place royale: The evolution of an absolutist type (Italy, France)
In Renaissance Italy and France, newly built urban plazas were conceived of as outdoor rooms with uniform elevations and a focused monument. The coordination of planning circumstances was usually the endeavor of an aristocratic or a monarchial patron. The coherency of a plaza became a direct …
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Against Lying: Some Historical Arguments in Favor of Moral Absolutism
… arguments has been in place supporting an absolutist prohibition against all lies, a lineage that has often been referred to as the absolutist `tradition' against lying. This paper explores this so-called tradition by first examining Augustine's view. Augustine argued that lying is always …
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What Does Value Matter? The Interest -Relational Theory of the Semantics and Metaphysics of Value
… as a misuse of normative language. The ""absolutist"" attempts to use and, as philosopher, analyze normative language in such a way as to justify the imposition of certain interests over others. But these uses and analyses are incoherent---in denying relativity to particular desires they …
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The Te Deum settings of Marc-Antoine Charpentier
During the time of the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV (1643-1715), the musical genre of the Latin Te Deum setting held an important position in France. The four extant Te Deums of Marc-Antoine Charpentier represent some of the finest offerings to this genre from one of France's truly significant …
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Voices and roles of competing groups of elite women in Siam's political and social transitions, 1868-1942
… from the late nineteenth century during the absolutist reign of King Chulalongkorn. It was in this period that aristocratic women realised the importance of skills other than domestic training in arts and crafts, and they began initiatives in female public education from the end of the …
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Voices and roles of competing groups of elite women in Siam's political and social transitions, 1868-1942
… from the late nineteenth century during the absolutist reign of King Chulalongkorn. It was in this period that aristocratic women realised the importance of skills other than domestic training in arts and crafts, and they began initiatives in female public education from the end of the …
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"Encourager le commerce et répandre les Lumiʹere" : the press, the provinces and the origins of the Revolution in France: 1750-1789
… were able to launch a systematic critique of absolutist society. The papers created a space where a community of individuals could come together outside their corporate existence and participate as equals. In the pages of the local papers, absolutist distinctions based on corps, état, and …
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From intellectualism to contextualism to metaethical realism : an exploration of our ethical language-games and their conditions of intelligibility
… the problem of ethnocentrism, the absolutist-relativist dichotomy, and the relevance of human embodiment for conceptions of moral justification. The works of Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger will play a central role in the articulation of …
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A arte civil de Mestre Valentin: um programa de sombra e de água fresca
… colonial period to the practices applied by the absolutist Portuguese se state to enforce its domination on the colonial society's production system. The city of Rio de Janeiro in the XVIII century is emphasized inasmuch as it became the viceroyal Government's site. Within that city it is focused …
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"The whole world in a book" : fact, fiction and the postmodern in Selected Works by E. L. Doctorow
… continual critical interrogation and revision of absolutist grand narratives in order to achieve a more complex understanding of human experience. He grapples with concepts relating to the fluidity of meaning and the constructed nature of texts, deftly experimenting with narrative form in order to …
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Unresolved tensions in the Mormon doctrines of God, man, and salvation during three critical periods of development
… of traditional Mormonism were taught. Mormon neo-absolutist, which arose in the 1950s and has sometimes been referred to it as Mormon neo-orthodoxy, has attempted to return to the more absolute, infinite view of God early Mormonism. Early Mormons taught that God was completely omniscient and …
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The Individual as Ecological: Reconstructing Identity in a Deweyan Vein
… examines the claim that there are possible absolutist tendencies in Dewey's thought before discussing the threat of absolutism, examining absolutist practices as types of monocultures, and arguing that far from supporting such tendencies, a Deweyan ecological individualism works against such …
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Modernization and the Redefinition of Religion
… religious faith becomes. Traditional faith is absolutist, certain, transcendent, submissive and institutional. Modern faith moves toward relative, uncertain, immanent, independent and individualized expressions. If secularization is occurring in the United States, it is not a rejection of …
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Beyond ethical reflections : neo-liberalism, idolatry and Canadian catholic social teaching
… a covert religious dimension complete with an absolutist dogma, a spirituality, a value system, a soteriology and embedded "God-concepts." These theologians maintain that when considered theologically, neo-liberalism is consistent with Scripture's perspective on idolatry. The study suggests …
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The possibility of judgement
… to politics that is neither empirical nor absolutist (Ideological). This thesis deal's with three, real or perceived, problems: (1) The Kantian system itself is unable to deal with the empirical world. (2) The system is not internally consistent. (3) The system will not respond to create …
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Ethical ideology: an inquiry into factors affecting the ethical position of selected future health administrators and practitioners
… health students were either situationist or absolutist. There were some evidence in the literature to support the results obtained for medical and nursing students. In addition, the literature would suggest that members of the same profession tend to share common values.
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Bodies Politic: Civil Law & Forensic Medicine In Colonial Era Bangkok
… spoke on their behalf favored authoritarian and absolutist trends in Thai political life.
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Opera at the Crossroads of Tradition and Reform in Gluck's Vienna
… of sovereignty itself was slowly shifting from absolutist models, requiring both new modes of government and new operatic representation. Yet individual singer's voices, such as that of Gaetano Guadagni, still played a vital role in shaping composition and aesthetics. Vienna in the 1760s …
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Human Rights, Positive Obligations and the Development of a Right to Security
… broadly grounded in ‘communitarian’ ideals. The ‘absolutist’ state theory of, say, Thomas Hobbes, to protect society from collapse, pays too little attention to genuine fears that the state can actually pose a threat to security; in giving the state significant powers of security, it can undermine …
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The Infrastructures of Occupation: Iraq, 2003 – 2012
… so-called reconstruction of Iraq. It rejects the absolutist understanding of state sovereignty as reflected in the state-building discourse as a productive analytical frame, and instead offers to look closely at the material, social, and cultural contingencies that shaped the state's agency. This …
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