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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"individual freedom"”.
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Individual Freedom and Social Cooperation: Rousseau and a Basic Problem for Moral and Political Philosophy
… thesis examines Rousseau's attempt to reconcile individual freedom and the need for social cooperation. In his account of human social development, Rousseau describes three stages in which he considers human beings to be free: the state of nature, the primitive family, and the ideal civil …
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Reformulation of the relationship between Individual freedom and technology theorized through/by the channel of cinematic philosophy
… i de quina manera, la restricció de la llibertat individual per part de les noves tecnologies, entenent que les obres mateixes són productores de teoria que contribueix a la filosofia cinematogràfica. Per comprovar aquesta capacitat, s'estableixen inductivament quatre tipus de restricció de la …
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Obscurity and involvement on the unconscious of thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
… dimensions inform how each conceives of freedom and volition. I show that they develop robust accounts of unconscious perceptions, beliefs, desires, and habits of thinking, all of which participate significantly in shaping the processes by which we consciously make decisions. I claim that …
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Bridging the Gap: An Evaluation of Involuntary Commitment Personal Narratives and Academic Literature
… The practice requires forcibly admitting an individual with a mental health disorder into an inpatient treatment facility on the grounds that the individual poses a significant threat of danger to him/herself or others. Involuntary commitment raises issues of ethical concern largely due to …
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River medico-legal laboratory in 1999 and their investigative outcome by 2004
… wor1dWlde, with a very idealistic vision of individual freedom, alleviation of poverty access to education and health care and safety Many of the ideals are In direct redress of the previous regime, where only select strata of the populace had easy access to what are now constitutional rights …
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Brazilian Return Migration: Debt, Freedom and Melancholia
… obligations, money, consumption, modernity, individual freedom, and melancholia which are prevalent matters in the lives of Brazilian migrants, I enquire into the everyday relations that migrants maintain with others and within which they constitute themselves. I argue that migration to …
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Finding the balance : the Ukrainian experience on the road to freedom and development
The theme of this study is freedom and development. One of the crucial points is the relation of freedom and development to different degrees of regulation and to the provision of substantive rights in a given society. The importance of formal and informal institutions as constraints on individual …
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Private Property in America: Land Use and the Ethics of Owning Land
… arose out of a tradition that emphasized the individual freedom to control holdings without interference from governmental influences. A sharp distinction between society as a whole and individual rights isolated ownership of private property from a notion of the common good. This dualistic …
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The Conservative Party and Thatcherism, 1970-1979: A grass-roots perspective
… education, resulted in a strong emphasis on individual freedom. The free market, property, and choice, with their strong norm of methodological individualism, were the Thatcherite alternative. This strengthened those with skills and qualifications but destroyed the collective structures that …
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A lei de natureza e o estado civil na perspectiva de John Locke
… the high importance that Locke gives to individual freedom to the detriment of civil peace.
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Caring Work: Opening a Space of Possibility for Exploring Transnational Feminist Solidarity Between Privileged and Marginalized Women
… its emphasis on personal responsibility and individual freedom in accelerating economic development globally, has only pushed women further into the margin of society. Structural adjustment programs (SAPs), which impose state budget cuts on healthcare and welfare programs, particularly have …
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The philosophic soul of reform : Herbert Croly's ideal of progressivism
… influenced by Immanuel Kant's conception of individual freedom and Josiah Royce's idea of community. Croly then, rejected the trend toward the relative and experiential nature of truth and ethics, the strictly empirical nature of social knowledge, and process being exalted over the ideal
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DOVERI INDEROGABILI DI SOLIDARIETÀ NELLO STATO COSTITUZIONALE DELL'EMERGENZA
… the duty of observance comes into tension with individual freedom, especially in relation to conscientious objection, understood not as an extra-legal phenomenon but as a constitutionally relevant form of dissent, structurally dependent on legislative mediation. The final part addresses the …
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Place In The Middle Landscape
… of collective majority rule and rights of individual equality has led to an identifiable urban form that is neither city, with its collective characteristics, nor country, with its sense of individual freedom, but a vast middle landscape where the majority of Americans live, work, shop, and …
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Faceless things: South Korean gay men, internet, and sexual citizenship
… 30s and 40s, in terms of exercising their sexual freedom and being gay at a moment of neoliberal reforms in South Korea when an increased emphasis on individual productivity and efficiency, especially through the use of information communication technologies such as the Internet, was competing …
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Puppet and Parvaneh: Exploring gender bias and artistic anonymity in Iran
… them into anonymity to protect their safety and freedom. The study looks at issues like gender equality, individual freedom, and the power of art to overthrow oppressive structures. To create a narrative that invites open interpretation, the accompanying artwork uses a variety of media, including …
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The evolution of intimacy : advertising personal computers in the 1980s
… played a role in socially constructing an individual's relationship to the personal computer in the home. Based an analysis of over 500 advertisements in widely circulated magazines during 1984-1987, this thesis examines through emblematic examples how advertisements during this period …
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"Real Queens Fix Each Other's Crown": Addressing the Misseducation of the Blackgirl
… utilized for degree attainment and economic freedom. Exemplary Blackgirl collectives instill the values of free speech and development of intellectual ideas for the betterment of themselves and their communities. In communities such as Jackson, Mississippi and Baltimore, Maryland, where the …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… different approaches to the relation between individuals and wider social groupings in the work of Margaret Cavendish, Sophie de Grouchy, Gabrielle Suchon, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these disparate sources—Cavendish’s vitalist metaphysics, …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… of objectivity and universality is a threat to individual freedom and democracy. The privileged discourse of religious morality in the context of politics helps maintain and reinforce the patterns of domination and subordination in society. This dissertation analyzes the relationship of the …
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