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Game of Thrones as Philosophy: Cynical Realpolitiks
Game of Thrones is a popular, award-winning television series with an eight-season run on Home Box Office, based on the Song of Fire and Ice series...
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A Theory of True Democracy
The second chapter describes Locke’s democratic theory. I begin by separating an overarching concept of democracy from eight conceptions of...
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Mitigating bias through random activation function selection
Neural networks have evolved into strong and dependable machine learning systems. However, training these systems requires human intervention in...
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Locke, John: Two Treatises of Government
Die rechts- bzw. staatsphilosophische Schrift erschien anonym 1690, wurde allerdings deutlich vor der Glorious Revolution von 1688/89 verfasst. Der...
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Geschichte und Gegenwart der Erziehungsphilosophie
Der Band geht den zahlreichen Verbindungslinien von Erziehung und Philosophie in Geschichte und Gegenwart nach. Neben exemplarischen...
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Stress adaptation and resilience of academics in higher education
Academics in higher education around the world indicate high levels of stress from multiple sources. The COVID-19 pandemic has only served to...
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Social Contract Theory and International Relations From Hobbes to Kant
This book provides a systematic analysis of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant with respect to international relations. These philosophers belong to...
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The Problematics of Representing Sense of Place
Chapter 7 is entitled “The problematics of representing sense of place”. As indicated earlier, this book adopts a critically discursive framework. In...
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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht als außen- und sicherheitspolitischer Akteur
Die Bundesrepublik kannte je ein Tabu in der äußeren und der inneren Sicherheit, die durch das Grundgesetz verfassungsrechtlich und durch die...
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Körper und politische (An‑)Ordnungen. Zur Bedeutung von Körpern in der modernen westlichen Politischen Theorie
At first glance, it can be stated that bodies do not play an important role in modern Western political theory. They are mostly privatized and set as...
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George Grant and Roger Scruton: Scrutinizing Scruton and the New Left
Roger Scruton and George Grant are, for different reasons, interpreted as significant interpreters of Conservatism. And yet, Grant’s High Toryism...
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When ‘Enough and as Good’ is Not Good Enough
Under what circumstances can people convert natural resources into private property? John Locke famously answered this question by positing what has...
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Locke’s Education for Ordinary Life and Liberal Citizenship
This book recounts the origin and development of civic education as an enterprise fundamentally concerned with character formation. That origin and...
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Rousseau
Bei dem Versuch, Kontinuitäten und Wahlverwandtschaften in der politischen Ideengeschichte auszumachen, könnte man versucht sein, Rawls als Vertreter...
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Indigeneity and Sense of Place
Chapter 4, “Indigeneity and sense of place” begins by addressing the problematic concept of indigeneity, noting that an official definition of...
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The Battle Between the Gods and the Giants: The Idealists and the Materialists
This chapter philosophically pits the idealists, dualists, rationalists, phenomenologists, existentialists, and the coherence theory of truth and...
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Locke, Alain Leroy
1907 erster afroamerikanischer Rhodes Stipendiat; Studium in Oxford und Berlin; 1918 Promotion an der Harvard Universität; 1918–1953 Professor an der...
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Michel de Montaigne: Education as Self-awareness and Autonomy
Despite the centuries that separate us from his work, Montaigne’s educational thought still has much to offer to the needs of our pluralistic and...
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Galenic Heritage in Locke’s Medical Philosophy: From Locke’s Medical Remains to His Reflection on Education
Locke’s reading of ancient medicine is usually studied through his collaboration with Thomas Sydenham, who came to be called the “English...
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Decolonising Place
Chapter 5, “Decolonising place”, begins with an overview of the “colonisation project”, viewing it as a special case of dispossession, characterised...