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O contrato social de Thomas Hobbes: alcances e limites
Full text linkTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em FilosofiaO problema em questão diz respeito ao contrato que funda e legitima o Estado em Thomas Hobbes. Tendo como escopo questionar a possibilidade e/ou impossibilidade de nulidade do contrato social e assim verificar as implicações disto para o conceito de soberania hobbesiana. A leitura que impera na tradição de estudiosos da obra política de Hobbes, em especial do Leviathan, é a de um Estado no qual a soberania é absoluta e irrevogável. A interpretação do contrato firmado entre e, somente, entre os homens, deixando, portanto, o soberano de fora, ofereceria legitimidade a este para agir de forma absoluta e obrigaria ao súdito a obedecer de forma irrestrita. A hipótese que se busca sustentar remete à possibilidade de rompimento, desobediência e mais centralmente da nulidade contratual a partir do vício e/ou desrespeito de determinadas cláusulas fundamentais do contrato, visto se oporem às condições de validade do contrato social. Se isso puder ser sustentado desse modo, isto é, se Hobbes compartilhar mesmo de uma teoria forte da nulidade contratual e pela razão, como declinado acima, que achamos ser a correta, então, tal formulação implicaria em sua teoria uma reconsideração do conceito de soberania e obediência, haja vista o estabelecimento de certos vínculos fortes que condicionam as possibilidades de exigência, autoridade e poder da soberania. Portanto, concentra-se em encontrar uma explicação e/ou teorização da nulidade do contrato social e da sua consequência para a teoria da soberania e obediência hobbesiana
Bill Crawford
No full textThe Larson Studio Collection contains portraits and landscape photographs from Thomas Larson and his son O. Blaine Larson, who operated the Larson Studio in Provo, Utah County, Utah
Tom Crawford
No full textThe Larson Studio Collection contains portraits and landscape photographs from Thomas Larson and his son O. Blaine Larson, who operated the Larson Studio in Provo, Utah County, Utah
Crawford Gates
No full textThe Larson Studio Collection contains portraits and landscape photographs from Thomas Larson and his son O. Blaine Larson, who operated the Larson Studio in Provo, Utah County, Utah
Marilyn Crawford
No full textThe Larson Studio Collection contains portraits and landscape photographs from Thomas Larson and his son O. Blaine Larson, who operated the Larson Studio in Provo, Utah County, Utah
O discurso de legitimação racional do poder moralizador e repressivo
Full text linkDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas.Análise do processo de constituição discursiva do [sistema político] que compõe o [Estado moderno] . Identifica, no conjunto teórico-político do filósofo inglês [Thomas Hobbes] (1588-1679), a fonte da legitimação [racional] do [poder] [repressivo] e [moralizador] do [Estado] a partir de um núcleo discursivo centrado na finalidade de pacificação e [segurança] derivado da institucionalização de um processo de [sociabilidade] , fundada no [contratualismo] . O trabalho divide-se em três capítulos: inicialmente, estabelece-se de que forma o processo de transmissão [retórica] da política se realiza na [filosofia] do autor, identificando-se primeiramente o [método historiográfico] -derivado de uma predileção pelo historiador grego [Tucídides] - e posteriormente a idéia de um [método científico] da política como instrumentos privilegiados de [doutrinação política] popular, os quais objetivam a [unidimensionalização] da [subjetividade] para a adequação ao modelo político identificado como ideal pelo autor; em um segundo momento, analisa-se os fundamentos do [discurso] que identifica uma única possibilidade de constituição social e a dinâmica desta moralização coletiva, justificada através da normalização das [paixões humanas] ; no último capítulo, define-se os pretextos discursivos para a sedimentação jurídico-moral deste modelo da política -nos termos traçados no [Leviatã] - a simbologia necessariamente moderna e instrumental do aparelho estatal hobbesiano e a formalização jurídica do processo repressivo e moralizador através da [autorização]
Allie M. Crawford
No full textThe Larson Studio Collection contains portraits and landscape photographs from Thomas Larson and his son O. Blaine Larson, who operated the Larson Studio in Provo, Utah County, Utah
Twentieth-century poetry and science : science in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Judith Wright, Edwin Morgan, and Miroslav Holub
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to arrive at a characterisation of twentieth century poetry and science by means of a detailed study of the work of four poets who engaged extensively with science and whose writing lives spanned the greater part of the period. The study of science in the work of the four chosen poets, Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978), Judith Wright (1915 – 2000), Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010), and Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998), is preceded by a literature survey and an initial theoretical chapter. This initial part of the thesis outlines the interdisciplinary history of the academic subject of poetry and science, addressing, amongst other things, the challenges presented by the episodes known as the ‘two cultures’ and the ‘science wars’. Seeking to offer a perspective on poetry and science more aligned to scientific materialism than is typical in the interdiscipline, a systemic challenge to Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is put forward in the first chapter. Additionally, the founding work of poetry and science, I. A. Richards’s Science and Poetry (1926), is assessed both in the context in which it was written, and from a contemporary viewpoint; and, as one way to understand science in poetry, a theory of the creative misreading of science is developed, loosely based on Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence (1973). The detailed study of science in poetry commences in Chapter II with Hugh MacDiarmid’s late work in English, dating from his period on the Shetland Island of Whalsay (1933 – 1941). The thesis in this chapter is that this work can be seen as a radical integration of poetry and science; this concept is considered in a variety of ways including through a computational model, originally suggested by Robert Crawford. The Australian poet Judith Wright, the subject of Chapter III, is less well known to poetry and science, but a detailed engagement with physics can be identified, including her use of four-dimensional imagery, which has considerable support from background evidence. Biology in her poetry is also studied in the light of recent work by John Holmes. In Chapter IV, science in the poetry of Edwin Morgan is discussed in terms of its origin and development, from the perspective of the mythologised science in his science fiction poetry, and from the ‘hard’ technological perspective of his computer poems. Morgan’s work is cast in relief by readings which are against the grain of some but not all of his published comments. The thesis rounds on its theme of materialism with the fifth and final chapter which studies the work of Miroslav Holub, a poet and practising scientist in communist-era Prague. Holub’s work, it is argued, represents a rare and important literary expression of scientific materialism. The focus on materialism in the thesis is not mechanistic, nor exclusive of the domain of the imagination; instead it frames the contrast between the original science and the transformed poetic version. The thesis is drawn together in a short conclusion
The Gospel of Thomas and the earliest texts of the synoptic gospels
No full textResearch on the Gospel of Thomas in the last quarter of a
century has made it clear that the origins of this apocryphal gospel
cannot
be
satisfactorily explained from a single point of view. The
author thus suggests that Thomas
be
understood as a growing collection
of sayings which originated in various places and languages, with some
logia being added to the collection after its inception. While this
suggestion is by no means new, there have been few extensive attempts
to study Thomas from such a presupposition.
Due to the need for a control group, only the logia which have
rather close parallels to the Synoptic gospels are investigated. Verbal and textual affinities are noted between these logia and the earliest texts of the Gospels (the Coptic versions, the Diatessaron, the
Old Syriac version, and other early versions and Christian writings).
Various degrees of probable contact between each logion and these
texts are assigned.
The results of this study give some idea as to the place of
origin, the original language, and the approximate date at which certain logia were added to the collection. Those sayings which show a
closer affinity to the Diatessaron, the Old Syriac version, or other
Syrian writings may
be
considered as having been added to the sayings
collection as it circulated in its earliest form, possibly in a Semitic language. Other logia which show no signs of awareness of a
Syrian reading, but which are similar to variants found in the Coptic
versions or other Egyptian texts, may well have originated in Egypt
and been added to the collection at a later stage. These results,
however, must await verification by those who might approach Thomas
from related, but different, perspectives
"The Economics of Outsourcing: How Should Policy Respond?"
Full text linkAccording to Research Associate Thomas A. Palley, global outsourcing represents a new economic challenge that calls for a new set of institutions. In this brief, he expands upon the problems of offshore outsourcing as outlined in Public Policy Brief no. 86 and focuses on the microeconomic foundations. He argues that outsourcing is a central element of globalization that is best understood as a new form of competition. Palley urges policymakers to understand the economic basis of outsourcing in order to develop effective policies, and suggests that they focus on enhancing national competitiveness and establishing new rules that govern the nature of global competition.
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