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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"state of nature"”.
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Rousseau's solitary man
This thesis gives a synoptic account of Rousseau’s description, in the Second Discourse, of the original a-sociability of human beings and the subsequent emergence of human society as the chance outcome of various contingent alterations to the original human condition. It takes up three major …
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No Reflection
A collection of free verse, informal and found poetry exploring the spiritual disconnect between the human animal and our natural environment, our desire and inability to regain the state of nature, and how we might find peace in the unthinking beauty of existence.
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The relationship between religion and rights in the writings of John Locke
… ever-increasing phenomenon while the influence of the church plays an ever-diminishing role in today's society. The irony of the situation is that rights have their source in religion. It is Locke who is credited with having put the question of rights into the mainstream of political thinking …
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Individual Freedom and Social Cooperation: Rousseau and a Basic Problem for Moral and Political Philosophy
… 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 society. An examination of the stages brings out a number of factors that are …
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A lei de natureza e o estado civil na perspectiva de John Locke
The present work expatiate about the State of John Locke, in the light of the conception of the law of nature found in the philosophy of John Locke, divided into three parts. In the first chapter, we will seek to expose the lockean definition of the state of nature as a retaliation against the …
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Reading Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus as a political treatise between Hobbes and Locke
This is a study of the political argumentation in the German Baroque writer Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen’s picaresque novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668). This thesis argues that the novel contains the three-part political argument found in the contemporary political …
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The effectiveness of monetary policy in a regime-switching environment
The role of money in guiding or predicting the business cycle is a recurring, if not a cyclical, theme in economics. Different econometric approaches, ranging from narrative to vector autoregressions, have been proposed to assess the validity of the money matters proposition in the economy. It is …
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Essays on information gathering in principal-agent contracts
This dissertation is a collection of essays on principal-agent contracts under asymmetry of information. The papers investigate how the possibility of acquiring information influences contracts. The first essay analyzes the contract between a principal and an agent, when the principal can conduct …
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Toward an Understanding of the Novelistic Dimension of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile
The multi-genre combination of philosophic and literary expression in Rousseau’s Emile provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between the novelistic structure of this work and the substance of its philosophical teachings. This dissertation explores this matter through a textual …
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Three Essays on Product Market Capital Market Interactions
… investigates the product market decisions of a firm while the corporate finance literature explores the financing decisions of the firm. But the truth is both the financing decisions and the product market decisions are interdependent and should be modeled together to develop a better …
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
Hobbes's natural law of gratitude needs to be brought back into perspective when reading his political works. Often when reading Hobbes, many use his depiction of human nature and natural rights to demonstrate the innate propensity toward unsociability. However, contrary to this presumption, Hobbes …
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The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contamination and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
… elements: 1) a deep engagement with the works of particular philosophers and scholars investigating questions of punishment, violence, biopolitics and political philosophy 2) with some specific, publicly-reported incidents within California prisons in the late 20th and 21st centuries and my own …
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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
This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s 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 …
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Permission to believe: descriptive and prescriptive beliefs in the Clifford/James debate
William Clifford's ‘The Ethics of Belief' proposes an ‘evidence principle': …it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence (1877, 1879:186). Its universal, absolutist language seems to hide something fundamentally correct. We first argue for …
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Life of the People, Body of the People: Re-reading the Imagery of the Body Politic
… to traditional interpretations, the language of the body politic is regarded as an essentially marginal turn of phrase which, if it does have any theoretical importance, simply refers to the civil order formed by agents who agree to exit from the state of nature by transferring their right of …
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Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory
<p>This work seeks to examine the role of the state in international relations. While international relations treat states as institutions endowed with agency, they lack any means of explaining how the state can gain agency, autonomy, and rationality.</p> <p>My dissertation seeks to reorient the …
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Thomas Hobbes and the reception of early-modern Epicureanism
This thesis is a study of Epicurean motifs (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 …
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The effect of crop yield and feed price variability on profitability of dairy farming in Virginia: a target MOTAD approach
Dairy farming in Virginia could be more profitable if price and yield risks affecting the cost and availability of feed inputs such as corngrain, corn silage, alfalfa and ryelage are reduced. Price and yield risk facing dairy farmers in Virginia can be reduced through a marketing strategy like …
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