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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"tyranny"”.
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Plato's View of Tyranny
… Plato's timeless and enduring insights on tyranny and the tyrannical personality in the Republic. I argue that Plato has a comprehensive and illuminating account of tyranny and, while neglected by scholars, such an account is applicable to our understanding of ethical and political life. …
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Rescripting the political romance: Narratives of kingship, tyranny and community
… contemporary understandings of good kingship, tyranny, and community. In their participation in this discourse these romances cross generic boundaries, interacting with textual traditions (including historiography, hagiography, folk tale, and the literature of complaint), inscribing ideologies …
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'Dost Thou Speak like a King?': Enacting Tyranny on the Early English Stage
… surprising ability to encourage resistance to tyranny through a reading of The Killing of the Children, which highlights the fleeting and unprofitable nature of earthly power in such a way as to resonate with audiences in the wake of Henry VIII's initial religious reforms of 1536. Chapter Three …
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The Tyranny of the Microbe: Microbial Mentalities in New Zealand, c.1880–1915
… and progress, as people complained of ‘the tyranny of the microbe’ in modern life. Despite the contemporary rhetoric of revolutionary change in medicine, this study argues that older concepts of disease continued to have relevance; germs were not the only elements in people’s understandings …
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Online Anonymity and the Kantian Publicity Principle: Can the Internet Solve the Paradox of Tyranny?
… of forbidding dissent or rebellion against tyranny, since rebels cannot make their intentions and plans public. However, new internet technologies offer public speech from behind the “shield” of anonymity, allowing dissent to be public but preventing reprisals from tyrants. This thesis …
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Natural Law Theory Under the Sun How Iranian Political Thought Viewed Tyranny as Opposed to The West
… addressing the need to counteract the damages of tyranny and the cyclical succession of regimes, as articulated by Plato. This study reveals that the concept of natural law predates Stoics and it is rooted within the pre-Socratic natural philosophy. The study exposes that Aristotelian ethics and …
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Tyranny on trial : the politics of natural law and legal positivism in the Federal Republic of Germany
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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“We Have to Record the Downfall of Tyranny”: The London Times Perspective on Napoleon Bonaparte’s Invasion of Russia
<p>"We Have to Record the Downfall of Tyranny": The London Times Perspective on Napoleon Bonaparte's Invasion of Russia aims to illustrate how The London Times interpreted and reported on Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia. This thesis explains how England feared its grip on Europe was slipping …
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The tyranny of timespace: examining the timetable of schooling activities as the interface between policy and everyday rhythms
This thesis seeks to understand the role of school timetables as an interface between policies that regulate or distribute forms of capital to schools, and their teaching and learning rhythms. By doing so, it proposes a mechanism for examining the reproduction of schooling practices, and how these …
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The Origin of Usurpation and Tyranny: Nonagentic Anti-Imperialism of the Twenty-First Century and the Legacy of Chavismo
<p>As Venezuela’s Chavista regime presides over the country’s descent into Latin America’s worst refugee and humanitarian crisis in modern times, a mass exodus of nearly five million Venezuelans since 2015, the rhetoric of Western anti-imperialists and the regime itself has absolved it of any …
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The Causes of Tyranny as a Guide to Political Reform: St. Thomas More's History of King Richard III of England
… Four introduces the major themeâ the causes of tyranny in the England depictedâ by contrasting tyranny with a good political order, â republic.â This chapter defines tyranny, distinguishes the tyrant Richard from the merely bad king Edward, notes the relationship between tyranny and faction, and …
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The Towneley Tyrants
… they seem to personify the medieval concept of tyranny.</p> <p>In this study I propose to examine the characters of the four Towneley tyrants in their particular plays and against the medieval concept of tyranny and its evils. I suggest that the plays, while they contain no explicit references …
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Participation, power and democracy: A comparative study of community engagement processes.
… in both bodies of literature pivots around the tyranny-transformation dichotomy. Participatory processes are portrayed as either spaces facilitating the increased regulation of the population, or enabling transformation in favour of a social justice which benefits the poorer sections of society. …
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The tyrannies in the Greek cities of Sicily : 505-466 BC
… subject given the militaristic nature of the tyranny, as well as a dominant theme in Classical Sicilian history. Next, the unusual subject of the `refounding' of already existing cities will be discussed. A phenomenon peculiar to Sicily, the four case studies give many clues regarding the …
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Ionian Revolt, Reconsidered
… by some Ionian Greeks to overthrow Persian tyranny for their own personal despotisms. Herodotus, as an opponent of tyranny, should write this account with praise for this attempted coup. His account however is filled with disdain towards the Ionians. This aversion overshadows the Ionian …
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From ‘sacred and undeniable’ to ‘self-evident’: a rhetorical analysis of Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence
… George III into a scapegoat for all forms of tyranny within the colonies, including the institution of slavery, so that by expunging the King they would be absolved of their attachment to the slave trade and could reform their new American identity in opposition to British tyranny. The study …
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Prometheus in sound : one hundred years of musical adaptations of the myth of Prometheus: Beethoven, Shubert, Liszt, Wolf, Parry, Fauré and Scriabin
… with the demigod who took action against the tyranny of Zeus.
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
This dissertation examines freedom and tyranny in ancient Greece and Persia by synthesizing ancient Near Eastern scholarship with a new reading of Herodotus's History. I argue, contrary to prevailing scholarly contentions, that Herodotus considered ancient Persia to be a free regime that possessed …
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