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Republic: A Survey of The Political and Economic History of The
of topics, from ancient Indian philosophy to the history of American Rock and Roll. The plethora of topics throughout this brief volume demonstrate the variety of topics La Salle students explore. The ... the positions held in the millets, Jews exercised political influence through other offices and occupations. A sort of secular Jewish governing position existed in the nasi. This secular leader would
political situation in Libya at the time and Operation Sophia in conjunction. I should like to emphasise up front that at the time, it was not clear—at least not to me, and I do not think to EU officials ... intervention, a kaleidoscope of different actors started to mark the political landscape in Libya.29 The post-Gaddafi ‘transitional phase’ was followed by the first general elections in five decades, electing a
and concord. In the present century [ie the eighteenth], Europe has witnessed two general congresses[,] both tedious farces acted on the political theatre, in which the principal performers were less ... happened’. Echoing a scene from the (likewise parochial) musical show Hamilton, Bolton reminds us of an essential and often overlooked fact: every international and domestic political decision can be traced
The field of (critical) international law seems to be having a materialist moment. Classic themes on international law’s structural indeterminacy,1 cultural hierarchies,2 or the political ... racialised capitalism that shape structures of historical closure and consistency in international law (in contrast to the promise of political freedom and openness inherent to the indeterminacy thesis).4 This
the ‘social and political processes of indicator production and their effects on regulation and governance’.38 Merry’s focus, in other words, is on who creates human rights indicators, how they do so ... . As Baxi puts it, ‘the making and remaking of human rights involve infinite labouring political practices on the part of both dominant and the dominated social actors and agencies’.51 My specific focus
explains that ‘[t]he terms and conditions of access to telecommunications services are instrumental in determining who can participate fully in the social, cultural, political and economic life of the ... the US. Subsequently, Kennedy took the steps to globalise the commercial communication by satellite as a way to ‘subordinate business considerations to promoting certain political objectives’.84 He
to this political demand. It coincided with another driver for change in the publishing world: the internet has made it harder to enforce payment for access to the knowledge that publishers disseminate
philosophy of “sagehood” or “authoritative personhood” (Pinyin: ren; Wade-Giles: jen*) was reflective o f his class conditions and interests, and if so, in which ways? I argue that his condition as a member o ... f the Shi class was a crucial factor, for his class interest informed, if not led to, his philosophy o f intersubjective “person building.” A statement o f rationale is in order, for our Platonic
Philosophy (Cambridge UP, 1996) [1797] 353, 393. For discussion see A Ripstein, Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard UP, 2009) 30-56. 54 J Griffin, On Human Rights (Oxford UP ... international stage. In the words of Kerry Rittich, ‘[s]ocial rights are . . . artefacts of political Cohen, ‘Minimalism about Human Rights: The Most We Can Hope For?’ 12(2) Journal of Political Philosophy (2004
what is essentially “historical philosophy”—a method of analysis that is ethical in approach but historical in content, for they derive their respective theories not from abstract principles, but from ... appraises the social, material, national, and ideological factors that have shaped Russian and American destinies, or as he puts it, “the tendencies of the two societies... of their political theories... of
known for his religious, political, and philosophical documents such as Summa Theologica, there is more to the man than his writing and the events o f his life. What o f the man himself? He is often ... Scriptures (Grabmann B 54). He was smart enough and capable enough in his religious manner o f thinking to reach his own conclusions using the history o f philosophy (Pegis xxx). In his search for wisdom and
. She was able to move about the city and had an active role in political life.3 This participation in politics was a result o f her nobility and additionally o f being highly educated for a woman. She ... Any injustice towards women from a modem point of view seems to have been strictly exclusion from political and social aspects of society. Although the view o f Byzantine women in Byzantium was
could be framed in a simple syllogism (the ellipsis in what follows is the site of philosophical and political contest): ‘Only persons can be subjects of rights and duties. A corporation is the subject of ... and duties’—the syllogism itself tells us little, if anything, about the nature of legal personhood and nothing about the character of the corporation. Thus, Anglophone political philosophers and legal
colonization and exploitation of the lands to the east. To support their rhetoric, they looked toward the “scientific racism” implied in the philosophy of Social Darwinism. This perversion of Darwin’s theory of ... .” {Bullock 737} Another of Hitler’s character traits that effected his ability to lead effectively was his inability to balance his role as both a military and political leader. Hitler, for all his political
, the work of Costas Douzinas (both in The End of Human Rights and more recently in Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2007) arguably falls into this category ... conviction that the normative discourses derived from liberalism . . . are inadequate to the task of grasping both new subject formations and new forms of social and political antagonism.1 - By the turn of
o f the liberation o f all the Slavic peoples from the rule o f either Austria or the Ottoman Empire. Russia had from the start taken the leadership role in this movement and due to both political ... Russian Foreign Service’s Balkan specialist Prince G.N. Trubetosky’s statement that, “ Russia’s true role in the world is to protect the smaller Slav states’ cultural and political independence from
Clearly, even natural philosophy, through the study of physics, was plagued with grossly incorrect, at least in hindsight, theories and explanations for certain phenomena. Note, however, that these, rather ... ?science,? on par with the various strains of natural philosophy in the medieval world, requires an analysis of its practice and study in the context of that world. Through this lens, just as John Buridan, a
account of ?the founding myth of the system?, the society of these independent states ?would now arise from itself and not from any religious, moral or political notions of the good external to it?.7 Indeed ... subordinate religion to various delimited forms of political rule, including the ?sovereign? state, even as Westphalia also ?constrained the authority of the sovereign? in this.13 Not only that, with the state
declared ‘the War’ over and ‘the Peace’ settled, Leviné was making a profoundly important political point about a different kind of war, one which was continuing despite the declaration by the bourgeoisie ... the lens of war or through the lens of police. On the one hand, Foucault is undoubtedly the thinker who has done most to put a broad concept of ‘police’ back in the centre of political thinking. The
