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Hobbes, Aristotle, And The Politics Of Metaphysics, Geoffrey M. Vaughan Jan 2020

Hobbes, Aristotle, And The Politics Of Metaphysics, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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This is a book review of Hobbes's Kingdom of Light: A Study of the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy by Devin Stauffer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).


Review Of Thomas Hobbes And The Natural Law By Kody Cooper, Geoffrey M. Vaughan Jan 2019

Review Of Thomas Hobbes And The Natural Law By Kody Cooper, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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No abstract provided.


Thomas Hobbes On The Aristocracy Of Passion, Geoffrey M. Vaughan Jan 2018

Thomas Hobbes On The Aristocracy Of Passion, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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No abstract provided.


Hugo Grotius' Modern Civil Religion: Source Of Europe's Stoic Liberalism?, Jeremy Seth Geddert Jan 2017

Hugo Grotius' Modern Civil Religion: Source Of Europe's Stoic Liberalism?, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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No abstract provided.


Review Of The Philosopher's English King: Shakespeare's Henriad As Political Philosophy By Leon Harold Craig, Bernard J. Dobski Jan 2017

Review Of The Philosopher's English King: Shakespeare's Henriad As Political Philosophy By Leon Harold Craig, Bernard J. Dobski

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No abstract provided.


A Naturally Disastrous War: Nature, Politics, And Historiography In Thucydides' History, Bernard J. Dobski Jan 2017

A Naturally Disastrous War: Nature, Politics, And Historiography In Thucydides' History, Bernard J. Dobski

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No abstract provided.


Re-Discovering An Older Sovereignty, Jeremy Seth Geddert Oct 2016

Re-Discovering An Older Sovereignty, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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Review of Sovereignty: Moral and Historical Perspectives by James Turner Johnson. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.


Response To Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan Jan 2016

Response To Susan Meld Shell, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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No abstract provided.


Natural Rights And History: Hugo Grotius's Modern Translation Of Aristotle, Jeremy Seth Geddert Jan 2016

Natural Rights And History: Hugo Grotius's Modern Translation Of Aristotle, Jeremy Seth Geddert

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No abstract provided.


Review Of On Sovereignty And Other Political Delusions By Joan Cocks And Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism By Sharon Krause, Bernard J. Dobski Jan 2016

Review Of On Sovereignty And Other Political Delusions By Joan Cocks And Freedom Beyond Sovereignty: Reconstructing Liberal Individualism By Sharon Krause, Bernard J. Dobski

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No abstract provided.


The Poverty Of "Corruption": On Reframing The Debate On Money In Politics, Molly Brigid Mcgrath, Robert G. Boatright Jan 2016

The Poverty Of "Corruption": On Reframing The Debate On Money In Politics, Molly Brigid Mcgrath, Robert G. Boatright

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No abstract provided.


The Incomplete Whole: The Structural Integrity Of Thucydides' History, Bernard J. Dobski Jan 2013

The Incomplete Whole: The Structural Integrity Of Thucydides' History, Bernard J. Dobski

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No abstract provided.


Shakespeare And The Body Politic, Bernard J. Dobski, Dustin Gish Jan 2013

Shakespeare And The Body Politic, Bernard J. Dobski, Dustin Gish

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No abstract provided.


Harry Jaffa's Egalitarian Natural Law, Geoffrey M. Vaughan Jan 2013

Harry Jaffa's Egalitarian Natural Law, Geoffrey M. Vaughan

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No abstract provided.


Edmund Husserl: Transcending Ideology, Molly Brigid Mcgrath Jan 2013

Edmund Husserl: Transcending Ideology, Molly Brigid Mcgrath

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No abstract provided.


Stanley Rosen: The Nemesis Of Nihilism, Nalin Ranasinghe Jan 2013

Stanley Rosen: The Nemesis Of Nihilism, Nalin Ranasinghe

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No abstract provided.


Aristotle (Versus Kant) On Autonomy And Moral Maturity, Molly Brigid Mcgrath Jan 2011

Aristotle (Versus Kant) On Autonomy And Moral Maturity, Molly Brigid Mcgrath

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No abstract provided.


Thucydides' Philosophic Turn To Causes, Bernard J. Dobski Jan 2010

Thucydides' Philosophic Turn To Causes, Bernard J. Dobski

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The article presents an analysis of Thucydides' statement on the causes of the Peloponnesian War between the two poles of Greek power, Athens and Sparta. The authors asserts that Thucydides' account of Greek history and his statement highlight Greek confrontation with material necessity and the quest for immortality. It also examines Thucydides' comment about the war's greatness, Homer and the poets, the birth of justice and the Greek discovery of politics.


"We Should See Certain Things Yet, Let Us Hope And Believe": Technology, Sex, And Politics In Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, Bernard J. Dobski, Benjamin A. Kleinerman Jan 2007

"We Should See Certain Things Yet, Let Us Hope And Believe": Technology, Sex, And Politics In Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, Bernard J. Dobski, Benjamin A. Kleinerman

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Through his modern "Yankee," Mark Twain reveals to his readers the underlying desire to overcome the very material world he seems to want to instantiate. Although the Yankee seems a modern man who simply wants to create the conditions in Arthurian England by which his body will be most comfortable, both his zeal for this project and the trajectory of his soul's course during the book betray an underlying hope to overcome his "mortal coil" through first technological and then political projects. In charting the impetus and evolution of the Yankee's psychology for us, Twain teaches us much about the …


Thucydides And The Soul Of Victory: Olympic Politics In The Peloponnesian War, Bernard J. Dobski Jan 2007

Thucydides And The Soul Of Victory: Olympic Politics In The Peloponnesian War, Bernard J. Dobski

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No abstract provided.