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Hace 3 días · Locke derived the fundamental concepts of his political theory from biblical texts, in particular from Genesis 1 and 2 , the Decalogue, the Golden Rule, the teachings of Jesus, and the letters of Paul the Apostle. The Decalogue puts a person's life, reputation and property under God's protection.
20 de may. de 2024 · The Communist Manifesto embodies the authors’ materialistic conception of history (“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”), and it surveys that history from the age of feudalism down to 19th-century capitalism, which was destined, they declared, to be overthrown and replaced by a workers’ society.
29 de may. de 2024 · Mary Wollstonecraft (born April 27, 1759, London, England—died September 10, 1797, London) was an English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She outlined her beliefs in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), considered a classic of feminism.
30 de may. de 2024 · Adam Smith, Scottish social philosopher and political economist who is a towering figure in the history of economic thought, best known for his book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the first comprehensive system of political economy.
30 de may. de 2024 · This anthology brings together selections of Nietzsche’s political commentary found throughout his corpus, including some never before translated writings from his youth.
30 de may. de 2024 · Owen Holland is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature. He is the author of Literature and Revolution: British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 (Rutgers University Press, 2022) and William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics and Prefiguration (Palgrave, 2017).
Hace 1 día · Writing a Life. Chitralekha Zutshi—. For historians, writing biographies can be challenging. We are trained to think in terms of broader social and political processes, not individual lives. But while writing the life story of the Kashmiri political leader Sheikh Abdullah, I came to recognize how valuable such a narrative can be in terms of ...
