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...sition that challenges our ideas on the very nature of government and society, and sheds light on some of the key issues we face today. A key text of political philosophy, On Liberty has been continuously in print since its first publication. (Summary by David Barnes)....

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...The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is an extended attack on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha , which argued for a divinely-ordained, hereditary, absolute monarchy. The more infl...

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...In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan , Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a Christian commonwealth. Book 3 begins with a wealth of biblical scholarship, directed at establishing the authority of Scripture while at t...

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...ed steering clear of politics, but politics is nevertheless all encompassing; however, one opinion on tussle between Delhi Police and AAP is majorily political; another political opinion, but with a strong emphasis on law, is the discussion of Zakia Jaffrey case. There were few very big events in the recent past; one amongst them is the Nirbhaya murder, and I have also...

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...egree of M. D. A four years' course, open to bachelors of art, literature, philosophy or science, and to persons of equivalent standing, leads to the ... ...egres of M. D. A four vears' course, open to bachelors of art, literature, philosophy or science, and to perf-ons of equivalent stand in 15, leads to ... ... 2.30 p, m., 4 H. H.—College, German 2. German 4 a, German 4 b, German f). Philosophy 1; Entrance, Greek. Tuesday, April 2, 1907, 7.30 p. 111., 4 H. H... ...Ocgres o< M, D. A four years' course, open to bachelors o( an, literature, philosophy or science-, and to persons of equivalent atanding, leads to the... ...hkosh. Wis., William Denison Lyman, M. A., B. S., professor of English and Political Science nt Whitman college and Albert H. Tolman Ph. D.,Dean of Ch... ...dence in Cleveland where ho was keenly interested in all movements for the political betterment of tho city and the state. Mr. Garfield also became a ... ...o. He was president of the municipal as- sociation whicli exterminated tho political ring which ruled tho city, and also president of the Cleveland ch... ..., 1; Astronomy, 1 ; Comparative Literattirn, 1 ; Italian, 1 ; Physics, 1 ; Political Science 1 ; Psychology, 1; Romance Langu- ages, 1; Spanish, 1; Zo... ...Arvie Eldred '05 (Geology, Mathe- matics); H. P. Hammond '00 (Mathematics, Political Science); J. Hotheway '99 (Romance Languages, Latin); J. H. HoUis...

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...What is Philosophy? Is it the exclusive domain of those who dream in abstract? Or is it the manifestation of the struggle of those who practice in material? Does it originate in the minds of professors like a Ganges flowing out from ...

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... wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged…. ... ...mately known to every man engaged in the hard practical work of Ameri- can political life. It is difficult to overstate how much it means to a nation ... ...s an interesting distinction between the qualities needed for a successful political career in mod- ern society and those which lead to eminence in th... ...s,—satire the rustic wit of which was not always fit for ears polite. Also political thoughts he put upon paper, and some of his pieces were even deem... ...e State government from V andalia to Springfield; one of those triumphs of political management which are apt to be the pride of the small politician’... ...mpathetic kindness in his heart. His main ambition was confessedly that of political distinc- tion; but hardly any one would at that time have seen in... ...that in this struggle against the spread of slavery he had right, justice, philosophy, the enlightened opinion of mankind, history, the Constitution, ...

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...to be done? Our sun is set, and we are all out in the cold now. After all, political events might account for my wife’s silence! “Boutin set out. He w... ...rooms were thrown open to his wife. Then came the Restoration. The Count’s political advance- ment was not rapid. He understood the exigencies of the ... ...his phrase of the King’s, at which the Liberals laughed so heartily, had a political sense. The order quoted in the long lawyer’s preamble at the begi... ...- rector-General, he regarded his position as merely the first step of his political career. Wholly occupied as he was by the anxieties of consuming a... ...ld allow of his marrying advantageously, and rising subsequently to a high political position, by being cho- sen Depute, made Delbecq the Countess’ ab... ...ys when you had better not tread on his corns. He is an old rogue, full of philosophy and imagi- nation. But to-day, what can you expect! He has had h...

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...e. At the word “wife” he shed tears, and in spite of his city breeding and philosophy he bowed himself in humble, supplicating Russian fashion at his ... ...his teeth, his sudden wooden laugh, the absence of smiles, his exclusively political or politic-economical conversation, his passion for roast beef an... ...-rooms, and in his behaviour was more than ever Anglomaniac, grumbling and political. But the year 1825 came and brought much sorrow. Intimate friends... ...o doze off to the sound of the chatter of the old steward; he, the man of! political ideas, burnt all his schemes, all his correspondence, trembled be... ...less self-confidence, and playing with the weightiest ad- ministrative and political questions, as a juggler plays with balls. The expressions: “That’...

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...ich might inspire poets or philosophers but have little direct effect upon political institutions. Plato’s Re- public is obviously impracticable, for ... ...d the fruits of that study are seen in the continual reference to concrete political experience, which makes the Politics in some respects a critical ... ...stensibly it is merely a continuation of the Ethics, but it comes to treat political questions from a purely political standpoint. This combination of... ...eks the constitution was not merely as it is so often with us, a matter of political machinery. It was regarded as a way of life. Further, the constit... ... him a state doctor. It is one of the most marked characteristics of Greek political theory that Plato and Aristotle think of the statesman as one who... ...d by A. Bain and G. C. Robertson, 1872, 1880; E. W allace, Outlines of the Philosophy of Aristotle, 1875, 1880; A. Grant (Ancient Classics for English... ...ward for this business, and apply themselves either to pub- lic affairs or philosophy: the knowledge of procuring what is necessary for a family is di... ...rsally succeed), when they reviled him for his poverty, as if the study of philosophy was useless: for they say that he, perceiving by his skill in as... ...and thirdly, let those who wish for pleasure in itself seek for it only in philosophy, all others want the assistance of men. Since then men are guilt...

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...esbury, the author of the Characteristics, was the grandson of that famous political agitator, the Chan- cellor Shaftesbury, who passed his whole life... ...es were sup- plied by the necessities of the times, or by the instincts of political zeal. T wo channels especially lay open between the great central... ...ng importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford, and still more ... ...the 18 Biographical Essays king’s garrisons. Thirdly, even apart from the political as- pects of Warwickshire, this county happens to be the central ... ..., has always been acknowledged under the popular tendencies of our English political sys- tem. From the sort of lead, therefore, which John Shakspeare... ... pro- found ejaculation, gathering into one pathetic abstraction the total philosophy of life: “We are such stuff As dreams are made of; and our littl... ...o; he is monochromatic. So, and for reasons resting upon the same ultimate philosophy, were the mighty architects of 55 Thomas de Quincey the Greek t... ...n Man was but one link in a general course which he had projected of moral philosophy, here and there pursuing his themes into the fields of metaphysi... ...powers from angry themes, and converging them upon others of more catholic philosophy. To the last he continued to conceal vipers beneath his flowers;...

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...e south of Europe. A The Universitv of Chica~o Press 4. Generic terms for political divisions: (I) when the term is an organic part of the name, f... ...of Anhalt, state of Illinois, county of Cook, city of Chicago. 5. Numbered political divisions : Eleventh Congressional District, First Ward, Secon... ...tion with the name of the place in which they are located. 7. The names of political parties, religious denomina- tions or sects, and philosophical... ...list; epicurean tastes, stoic endurance, dualism arid monism in present-day philosophy, an altruistic world-view; the classics, a realistic novel. ... ...tism. 9. The proper (official) titles of social, religious, educa- tional, political, commercial, and industrial organiza- tions and institutions :... ...ssian War, Battle of Gettysburg; Peace of Utrecht, Louisiana Purchase. 14. Political alliances, and such terms from secular or ecclesiastical histo... ... letters). But do not capitalize such phrases when spelled out : doctor of philosophy, fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 21. Nouns and adj...

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...An introduction to moral, political and economic philosophy. Twelve philosophers in each category are featured, their basic theories are examined and provide the basis for discussion....

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...Viewpoints: Conservative and Liberal 12 Chapter 3 Epistemology and Logic 20 Chapter 4 Fallacies: Errors o f L anguage and Logic 32 PART 2 Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good and Evil, Right and Wrong Chapter 5 Moral Philosophy: A Brief Introduction 47 Chapter 6 Plato and Aristotle: Idealism and Realism 55 Chapter 7 Epicurus and Epictetus: Pleasure and Apathy 65 C...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...it was not intended to include other colored races -creates a new phase of political conditions that M. De Tocqueville could not foresee. Yet, in his ... ...ounty governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide de... ...tera- ture: nor is there any subdivision of the work in which the severest philosophy is not invested with the grace of poetry, and the driest statist... ...hink that in no country in the civilized world is less atten- tion paid to philosophy than in the United States. The Ameri- cans have no philosophical... ...ding alone. America is therefore one of the coun- tries in the world where philosophy is least studied, and where the precepts of Descartes are best a... ...enth century, Bacon in the natural sciences, and Descartes in the study of philosophy in the strict sense of the term, abolished recognized formulas, ...

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...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... ...- eral politics (meaning by general not personal politics) and with social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political ... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ...broad evidences of the credulity with which we have adopted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fiel... ...d from the labor as too overwhelmingly exacting in all that related to the philosophy and theology of that man 80 “myriad-minded,” and of that century... ...gy. And in what way could such a polemic interest be evoked except through political partisanship? But such partisanship connects itself naturally wit... ...n sect a peculiar denomination are also those which record its hon- orable political conflicts; so that his own connection, through his religious brot... ...anch of study, the points are so many at which theol- ogy inosculates with philosophy, and with endless casual and random suggestions of the self-prom... ...o some new mode of hope- ful existence, through intercourse with religious philosophy. What vast revolutions (vast for the individual) within how narr...

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... unbelief, and told herself that he was absurd. “What does he keep reading philosophy of some sort for all this year?” she wondered. “If it’s all writ... ... put in place of his will the word love, and for a couple of days this new philosophy charmed him, till he removed a little away from it. But then, wh... ...he meaning of the life of man?” he thought. “And don’t all the theories of philosophy do the same, trying by the path of thought, which is strange and... ...pon to do this, and is driven inevitably into war. On the other hand, both political science and common sense teach us that in matters of state, and e...

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...ut disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my gov ernment which is the slave’s government a... ...ecial acuteness and ability, he is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of ...

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...eeper than the Seine,” said Raphael. “Oh, you don’ t understand me; I mean political crime. Since this morning, a conspirator’s life is the only one I... ... stood the young and auda- cious writer, who distilled the quintessence of political ideas better than any other man, or compressed the work of some p... ... hurled across a battlefield. It was at once a volume and a picture. Every philosophy, religion, and moral code differing so greatly in every lati- tu... ...lican, following out his theory in spite of hiccoughs; “in politics, as in philosophy, there are only principles and ideas.” “What an abomination! The... ... she has.” “Oh, ho! No and yes, is not that the sum-up of all reli- gious, political, or literary dissertations? Man is a clown danc- ing on the edge ... ...em is settled by fact!” “What fact?” “Professors’ chairs were not made for philosophy, but phi- losophy for the professors’ chairs. Put on a pair of s... ...c cally opposed. If you were not drunk, you might perhaps catch a gleam of philosophy in this.” “ And if you had not both feet on that fascinating Aqu... ...of,’ whispered Rastignac; ‘he is a chemist, a historian, a novelist, and a political writer; he has gone halves, thirds, or quarters in the authorship... ...of ducks assembled against its will, but luckily without either charter or political principles, living in com- plete immunity from sportsmen, under t...

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...ever, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political principles in which he was edu- cated, and of which he ever retai... ... so clear and animated a manner, and illumi- nated throughout with so much philosophy, that it is one of the most interesting narratives in the Englis... ... play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so eminent in the political world. Notwithstanding all the support of such per- formers as Ga... ...d in London, and hung loose upon society.’ His just abhorrence of Milton’s political no- tions was ever strong. But this did not prevent his warm admi... ...versation was so rich, so animated, and so forcible, and his religious and political notions so congenial with those in which Langton had been educate... ...his house at Windsor, where he was entertained with experiments in natural philosophy. One Sunday, when the weather was very fine, Beauclerk enticed h... ...ed by Mr. David Mallet. The wild and pernicious ravings, under the name of Philosophy, which were thus ush- ered into the world, gave great offence to... ...n his Prayers and Meditations, p. 25, a prayer en- titled ‘On the Study of Philosophy, as an In- strument of living;’ and after it follows a note, ‘Th... ...ally errone- ous, have been propagated: maliciously repre- senting it as a political bribe to Johnson, to desert his avowed principles, and become the...