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The Circle of Rights Expands
How political thinkers have struggled for centuries with the problem of keeping executive authority under control by the electorate.
The Age of Secularization
Augusto Del Noce is widely considered one of Italy's foremost philosophers and political thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also remembered as an original …
Not Even a God Can Save Us Now
The interplay between violence, religion, and politics is a central problem for societies and has attracted the attention of important philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, …
Orthodoxy and Enlightenment
George Campbell (1719-1796) has long been regarded as a seminal figure in the development of modern theories of persuasion, but modern students of rhetoric seldom look beyond his …
From Personal Duties Towards Personal Rights
Part One examines the late medieval northern Italian city-state republics and the humanist depiction of their form of polity. Part Two reviews the legal (principally canonical) and …
Before Copernicus
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally …
The Distant Relation
The Distant Relation breaks down the artificial division between philosophy and literature by weaving contemporary philosophic arguments through close readings of Carpentier, …
Democratic Legitimacy
Barnard argues that Western democracy, if it is to continue to exist as a legitimate political system, must maintain the integrity of its application of performative principles. …
Mr Simson's Knotty Case
The issues involved in these trials included the right of universities to discipline their professors, the degree of political control over the appointment and methodology of …
The Jena System, 1804-5
As he worked on the Jena sytem, Hegel's understanding of the nature of logic and its connection with metaphysics underwent changes crucial to his later system. As a result, logic …
The Form of Politics
For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics. Considering the connections between personal and political friendship, John von Heyking's The Form of Politics …
Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity
As a historian of the Renaissance and the rise of Christianity, Burckhardt was concerned with periods of social, political, and cultural transformation. Writing in the aftermath of …