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Hace 3 días · Aristotle and utopia may seem an odd combination. Anthologies of utopian texts do not contain passages from Aristotle’s writings. He also typically does not feature in histories of utopia. Nonetheless, a close reading of the Politics reveals that Aristotle had an extensive and rather distinctive interest in the enterprise of imagining utopias or ideal cities. The peculiarity of his ...
Hace 2 días · Dystopian fictions number in the hundreds of thousands: there are over three hundred classics and hundreds of thousands of fans have created their own fan page dystopias online. One website alone contains 37.8 thousand The Hunger Games fan fictions. Films based on dystopian fictions are a vast socioeconomic and cultural phenomenon (see The Hunger Games, Blade Runner, Aliens, Logan’s Run, The ...
Hace 5 días · The P5 Standard explicitly integrates More’s utopian ideals and Defoe’s practical approaches to societal improvement through projects. ‘People’ and ‘Planet’ focus on ensuring that projects contribute positively to social equity and environmental sustainability, mirroring More’s vision of a society where everyone benefits equitably from communal efforts.
Hace 1 día · —Max Weber in Sociological Writings, 1904. The principle of methodological individualism, which holds that social scientists should seek to understand collectivities solely as the result of the actions of individual persons, can be traced to Weber. In the first chapter of Economy and Society, he argued that only individuals "can be treated as agents in a course of subjectively understandable ...
Hace 3 días · Books. How the American Dream came to represent both a utopia and a dystopia. (Image credit: Gregory Crewdson) By Deborah Nicholls-Lee 22nd May 2024. A new book and two new exhibitions explore...
Hace 3 días · THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN DIGNITY AND THE REALISTIC UTOPIA OF HUMAN RIGHTS. JÜRGEN HABERMAS, Pages: 464-480; First Published: 20 July 2010; ... including rights for text and data mining and training of artificial technologies or similar technologies. Log in to Wiley Online Library. Email or Customer ID. Password. Forgot password ...
Hace 4 días · Patrick Luciani | May 21, 2024. In the latest Hub book review, Patrick Luciani examines Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society (Knopf, 2023, 2024) by Daniel Chandler, which puts forth how the ideas of John Rawls can be implemented in our times for progressive political ends. After the Second World War, countries in Northern Europe, the ...
