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Showing 1 to 20 of 227 for “"political thought"”.
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The state and environmental political thought
Anarchist ideas have dominated green political thought since the appearance of the environmental movement in the late 1960s and 1970s. It is unsurprising, then, that green theorists have taken a stance towards the state which may be described as ambivalent at best. The last 15 years, however, have …
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The political thought of Muhammad Asad
This study is an analysis of the political thought of a prominent Pakistani scholar, namely, Muhammad Asad (1900-1992). The emphasis of the study is placed on how Asad's proposal of a contemporary model of the Shari'ah state in the context of Pakistan deals with constitutional questions pertaining …
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Post-Machiavellian Political Thought and Tacitism
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Giovanni Botero and English Political Thought
… and a growing interest in understanding the political significance of trade. The dissertation therefore contributes to our understanding of the history of early modern political thought, translation and reception, and English-Italian intellectual exchange in the early modern period. …
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The Political Thought of Tan Malaka
… Communist Party (PKI), a Comintern agent, a political exile, and a revolutionary leader. He travelled the world, living for spells in the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, China, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Tan Malaka’s colourful life and political career have attracted comment from …
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
… of interest in Benjamin Constant’s (1767-1830) political thought. Most contributions have started from the premise that Constant was a ‘liberal’, despite his own elusive use of the term. As a result, scholars have often interpreted Constant’s thought in ways that correspond to later conceptions …
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The Political Thought of the Chartist Movement
… ideas along a broad front. By examining the political thought of a movement, rather than a select number of highly educated intellectuals, this thesis also makes a statement about how to study popular political ideas. Chapter One locates the foundations of Chartist political thought in the …
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Autonomy and neutrality in liberal political thought
A central tenet of liberal political philosophy is the claim that the role of the state is to remain neutral among citizens’ varying conceptions of the good life. In addition to this tenet, some liberals hold the view that we ought to define freedom as individual autonomy. Moreover, such liberals …
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Wisdom and Law: Political Thought in Shakespeare's Comedies
… for happiness tend to be sub- or even supra-political. No regime, it appears, is able to respond to the whole variety of circumstances that it may be called upon to judge. Even the best written laws meet with occasional exceptions and these ulterior instances must be judged by something other …
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Law in Aristotle's ethical-political thought
Proclaiming that man is a political animal, Aristotle overcame the Sophists' opposition between law and nature. My dissertation looks at whether the law successfully promotes the human good in Aristotle's political philosophy. Aristotle believes law should inculcate the virtues of character. In …
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The religious and political thought of Swami Vivekananda
Vivekananda's thought has been subject to many different interpretations. In the 1890s. Krishna Verma, writing for the journal Sociologist, claimed that Vivekananda was influenced by the evolutionary ideas of Herbert Spencer, which emphasized struggle and the eventual survival of the fittest. Verma …
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Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought
… the long history of incarceration in democratic political thought, showing how the prison has been thought to instantiate democracy (Plato) and enhance democratic citizenship (Tocqueville), yet also criticized as violating norms of political equality (Du Bois) and political freedom (Davis) latent …
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
… thesis investigates the history of modern Indian political thought in part through its significance for German fascism. It differs from other works on ‘global fascism’ in that it decentres ‘fascism’ as a concept but traces themes that emerge in its global context: the idea of ‘the people’, race, …
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